Comparison

TimeCount vs Countdown

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

TimeCount

Easily count down to your most cherished events, from birthdays and weddings to vacations and holidays. View all your important dates on a single screen, receive timely reminders, and even display countdowns directly on your home screen with customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Countdown to special events
  • Home screen widgets
  • Event reminders
  • Personalized countdown calendar
  • Full-screen event photos
  • Unlimited free countdowns
Features
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Countdown to your life's most special moments. It’s the small things in life that matter most – birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, and heartwarming gatherings with your favorite people. With TimeCount, you can easily countdown and cherish these unforgettable occasions. Countdown and More! Keep track of your important events, whether you're counting down to a vacation or celebrating your wedding anniversary. Your Personal Countdown Calendar View all your life events on a single screen, swipe through them effortlessly, and enjoy beautiful full-screen event photos. Home Screen Countdown Widgets Countdown to your events right from your home screen with our stunning widgets. Never Miss a Beat TimeCount lets you countdown to events that happen yearly, monthly, weekly, or daily. You'll never forget birthdays and anniversaries again! Countdown Reminders We'll keep you informed about how much time remains until your event, all without opening the app. A Beautiful Countdown Experience TimeCount is designed with care and attention. Enjoy subtle animations and beautiful imagery that make your countdown experience the best it can be. Unlimited Free Mode Countdown to many events as you want: Birthday, Vacation, Holiday, Christmas, Wedding, Anniversary, Retirement, Concert and more. And Much More TimeCount is available for free because we want you to experience it. We're continually working on new features and value your feedback. Try TimeCount now and find out why our users believe it's the ultimate countdown app on the App Store. It's the countdown app that makes your events even more exciting! Term of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Widget Guide: https://www.appforgeron.com/blogs/how-to-add-a-countdown-widget-on-your-iphone

About

Countdown

Visually track personal goals, habits, and important dates with customizable widgets. Supports counting up and down, recurring events, and synchronization across Apple devices. Offers detailed progress visualization and notifications to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Apple Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Detailed progress visualization dashboard
  • Customizable colors, icons, and fonts
  • Notifications for key dates and streaks
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

TimeCount4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: TimeCount at 25K against Countdown's 3.1K. TimeCount also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Countdown's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TimeCount sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Countdown sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for TimeCount against 4.7 for Countdown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TimeCount has 25K ratings behind it against 3.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of TimeCount's written reviews are positive against 82% of Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TimeCount ships an update every 9 days, Countdown every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimeCount versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeCountCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (25K ratings)4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.8% of reviews82.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25K — better3.1K
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApp Forgeron LLCkeinois OU

Customer experience

TimeCount

All ratings24,874 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.4%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews2,208 reviews
Positive78.8%
Neutral6.5%
Negative14.8%

Countdown

All ratings3,140 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews635 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative12.3%

User reviews

TimeCount

From 25K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Customizable backgrounds
  • 🔔 Helpful reminders
  • 📆 Tracks days since and until events
  • 💡 Versatile countdown options

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription required for widgets
  • 🔍 Limited free features
  • 🔔 Frequent subscription prompts
  • 🐛 Inconsistent countdown display
  • 🔒 Sync issues and data loss

Countdown

From 3.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Handy and useful app
  • 🚀 Helpful for tracking goals and projects
  • 💡 Great customization options
  • 👍 Sleek and visually appealing design
  • 👍 Seamless integration with Apple ecosystem

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited functionality in free version
  • 💰 Paid features can be expensive for some users
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches reported
  • 🔒 Restricted customization options without paying

Bugs and requests

TimeCount

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Countdown not updating correctly
  • App crashes on certain actions
  • Subscription issues and lack of support

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to share events with others
  • More free customization options
  • Improved widget functionality
  • Sync across devices

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

In-app purchases

6 purchases

TimeCount

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$13.991 Year
  • Premium Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Premium Yearly Subscription1 Year trial3 variants$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Forever$34.99
  • Premium Forever$44.99
8 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions6
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$49.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is TimeCount free?
TimeCount is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TimeCount or Countdown?
Countdown is rated higher. TimeCount averages 4.6 out of 5 from 25K ratings, while Countdown averages 4.7 from 3.1K ratings.
Do TimeCount or Countdown have ads?
Neither TimeCount nor Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimeCount or Countdown?
TimeCount ships an update every 9 days, and Countdown every 4 days. Most recently, TimeCount was updated on November 4, 2026 and Countdown on November 3, 2026.

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