Comparison

Altruize vs Countdown Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Altruize

Easily track, record, and verify volunteer activities to prove your impact with less paperwork. Set goals, get reminders, and see your skill development through journaling and career cluster analysis. Organizations can manage volunteer data and connections with various subscription options.

Highlights
  • Track volunteer activities
  • Verify volunteer hours
  • Generate impact reports
  • Journal volunteering experiences
  • See skill development
  • Set volunteering goals
  • Receive reminders
Features
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Download the Altruize App to prove your impact with less paperwork. Altruize means “to exercise your altruism” (AKA your goodness). Maintain and control your own volunteer data at your fingertips. Altruize enables volunteers and organizations to track, record, and verify volunteer activities easily to prove compliance through creating reports and managing volunteer activities and hours on a convenient and easy platform. Altruize can be accessed via this app or a browser at https://altruizeapp.com Ability to share your activities for college/university admissions, potential employers, probation/parole officers, and another entity that you’d like through reports you create or through permission that you’ve granted the entity requesting the data. Set Altruizing goals; get reminders and see your impact. Free for verifiers to use; invite the nonprofit, corporation, or individual to verify your volunteer efforts. Journal; maintain a journal of your volunteering experiences to help you identify any passions and skillsets See your skill development; we use career clusters to help you see patterns of different skills that you’re acquiring/enhancing through your volunteer efforts. Thank you for all you do in your community! Subscription information Organizations have a few subscription options all of which are recurring monthly. Organizations can choose from 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000 links that will allow additional volunteer data and connection to their members. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Countdown Buddy

Create personalized countdown and count-up widgets for your home and lock screens. Visually track important dates like birthdays, vacations, or deadlines with custom designs, colors, and photos. Stay motivated and make waiting more exciting.

Highlights
  • Personalized countdown widgets
  • Count-up widgets
  • Home screen and lock screen support
  • Customizable designs
  • Background color options
  • Photo integration
  • Font selection
Features
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EVERYTHING YOU ARE WAITING FOR - IN A WIDGET Design your own personalized countdown or count-up widgets for your home screen & lock screen. Countdown Widget is a super fun way to track the days until a momentous occasion such as: - Your birthday, or another special someone’s birthday - A long-awaited vacation - Back to school - Upcoming elections - A returning season of your favorite TV series - A favorite yearly tech event - A new video game is up for preorder Or any other future event! Countdown Widget makes waiting for something exciting even more thrilling by giving you a cool and colorful visual reminder on your home screen. Use it to count down to a big event, to mark the end of something less fun, or to keep track of work deadlines (weekend exclusion is now possible!) - it's a super fun way to stay on top of things! COUNT UP Create a count-up widget to mark a significant moment in time and track the duration since it occurred. CREATE A PERSONALIZED COUNTDOWN WIDGET Create a Widget with your custom design in a matter of seconds. You can choose from 11 Countdown styles (we are already working on more) and make them your own by adding your personal touch: - Change background colors. - Use photos from your phone Photo Library or from our preset gallery. - Choose from a curated list of fonts that go well with each specific style. - Each Widget you make will automatically be available in small or medium sizes. - Change the design anytime later. WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK As a small team, we are excited to have our first app on the App Store. We value your feedback and would love to hear from you if you have any questions, suggestions, or anything else you think we should know. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us at - hi@taptics.co. Note: The Free version of the app includes one countdown widget with the basic design.

Screenshots

Altruize3 screens
Countdown Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Countdown Buddy at none against Altruize's shown. Countdown Buddy also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 12) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). Altruize's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Altruize sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Countdown Buddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Altruize against 4.6 for Countdown Buddy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Buddy has 26K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Altruize's written reviews are positive against 68% of Countdown Buddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Altruize ships an update every 2 months, Countdown Buddy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Altruize versus Countdown Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAltruizeCountdown Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (12 ratings)4.6 (26K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better67.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1226K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB149 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAltruize, IncTaptics Ltd.

Customer experience

Altruize

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Countdown Buddy

All ratings25,173 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.4%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews999 reviews
Positive67.7%
Neutral9.9%
Negative22.4%

Bugs and requests

Altruize

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown Buddy

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widgets disappearing or not working after updates
  • Countdown timers not updating correctly
  • Inability to add new widgets or countdowns

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to display multiple countdowns at once
  • Implement automatic countdown reset/repeat functionality
  • Allow custom countdown units (e.g., weeks, business days)
  • Improve widget handling and update reliability

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Altruize

Subscriptions6
  • 25 Member Links$9.991 Month
  • 50 Members Links$17.991 Month
  • 100 Members Links$25.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • 200 Member Links$33.991 Month
  • 500 Member Links$69.991 Month
  • 1000 Member Links$99.991 Month
One-time2
  • One Report Token$14.99
  • 10 Token Pack$99.99
1 purchases

Countdown Buddy

One-time1
  • Countdown +$3.59

Questions

Is Altruize free?
Altruize is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Buddy free?
Countdown Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Altruize or Countdown Buddy?
Countdown Buddy is rated higher. Altruize averages 4.6 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Countdown Buddy averages 4.6 from 26K ratings.
Do Altruize or Countdown Buddy have ads?
Altruize shows ads; Countdown Buddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Altruize or Countdown Buddy?
Altruize ships an update every 2 months, and Countdown Buddy every 9 days. Most recently, Altruize was updated on October 29, 2026 and Countdown Buddy on November 3, 2026.

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