Comparison

mimi vs Countdown Widget

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

Head to head
About

mimi

Personalize your notes with a variety of cute themes and customizable text styles. Organize your thoughts into notebooks, create to-do lists, and format text with lists and special character recognition. Unlock premium stickers with a subscription.

Highlights
  • Cute note themes
  • Customizable text styling
  • Checkable to-do lists
  • Organize notes in notebooks
  • Special character highlighting
  • In-app web browser
Features
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mimi is a cute note application based on the concept of "the fun of choosing a cute notepad at a store." Choose your favorite from many themes and enjoy your notebook and notes! If you don't have your favorite theme, you can request the theme you want the author to make. Enjoy the cute! Features: - Cute note themes - Text styling (font, font size, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, text colors, pragraph alignment, paragraph indent) - Checkable list for track todo in note - Unordered list and ordered list for formatting text in list - URL, phone number, address, calender event, flight number and shipment tracking number are highlited in note editor - Open URL in in-app web browser - Organize notes in notebooks mimi Premium unlock premium stickers on Sticker Library. mimi Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. For technical assistance or other inquiries, email: umaiapp+mimi_support@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://umai.app/app/mimi/Privacy.md Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Countdown Widget

Track important dates with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Set reminders, sync across devices, and add personal notes or photos to each event. Never lose track of your days with automatic backups and a history timeline.

Highlights
  • Multiple widget types and sizes
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Count down to or up from dates
  • Recurring event options
  • Customizable reminders
  • iCloud sync
  • Data import/export
  • Event history and timeline
Features
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A countdown that never loses your days — and never holds its four widgets back. Add the day that matters, put it on your home screen, and watch it come closer. No limit on how many you keep, and nothing between you and the number. FOUR WIDGETS, FREE • Four widgets: one countdown, the next few in a list, a spotlight, or a tile for each • Every size of all four, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Unlimited events — there is no cap, and there never will be • Count down to a date, or count up from one • Recurring events: yearly, monthly, weekly, or every few days • Reminders on the day, and as far ahead as you want • iCloud sync, with no account to make • Import from a calendar, a spreadsheet, or another countdown app — and export any time • No ads, ever COUNT DOWN TO ANYTHING A wedding countdown, a vacation or trip countdown, a birthday or an anniversary. Christmas, New Year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Exam day, graduation, retirement, a baby due date, a concert, a deadline, payday. Or count the days since a day that has already happened. YOUR DAYS, KEPT Most countdown apps lose your events at the worst moment — an update, a reinstall, a phone that died. This one takes a snapshot of everything on this device every single day, and always before anything risky. Thirty days of history, one tap to restore, and nothing ever leaves your phone. Days that have already passed are never deleted either: they collect into a timeline you can look back through, with the longest wait of each year written next to it. THE MOMENT ITSELF When a countdown reaches a milestone — a hundred days, a week, the morning of — the app opens on the number, full screen, and gives you a card worth sharing. THE BACK OF EVERY EVENT Tap an event and it turns over to a page of its own. Write a few lines, add photos, record a voice — the story of the day, kept with the day. It syncs with iCloud, goes into every backup, and shares as one picture. MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS Thirty-six ready-made events, from a birthday to a first day at work, each already set up with the right repeat and the right reminders. Two hundred drawn icons and the whole emoji keyboard. A hundred and fifty-nine full-screen backdrops — twenty-two of them photographs — a hundred and seven in Pro. COUNTDOWN PRO Pro unlocks the Pro backdrops, with a new drop every month, your own photos behind a countdown, Photo Roll — a widget that turns your event's own photos over behind the count, the Pro typefaces, the Lock Screen Live Activity, and inviting someone to count down with you. Whatever you unlock while subscribed stays yours for good — cancelling only stops the new ones arriving. Your countdowns, reminders and the four widgets work the same whether you subscribe or not. ——— Countdown Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Prices for the annual plan, which includes a 7-day free trial, and the monthly plan are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available; it does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

mimi4 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown Widget at daily against mimi's monthly. mimi's advantage is ratings volume (8K vs 26) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. mimi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Countdown Widget sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mimi holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mimi has 8K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of mimi's written reviews are positive against 100% of Countdown Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mimi ships an update monthly, Countdown Widget daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
mimi versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermimiCountdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (8K ratings) — better4.6 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews92.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8K — better26
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size246 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasaki Yoshihisa可 吴

Customer experience

mimi

All ratings6,459 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews560 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative4.1%

Countdown Widget

All ratings26 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

mimi

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Notes sometimes get moved to the top unexpectedly
  • Certain font styles have compatibility issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to import photos and images
  • Implement cloud sync and backup functionality
  • Allow custom themes and background creation
  • Add more organizational tools like tags and filters

Countdown Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

mimi

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$25.991 Year
9 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions4
  • Countdown Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Countdown Pro Yearly · Welcome$9.991 Year
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime2 variants$14.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$19.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$20.99
Show 2 more
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$26.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is mimi free?
mimi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, mimi or Countdown Widget?
mimi is rated higher. mimi averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8K ratings, while Countdown Widget averages 4.6 from 26 ratings.
Do mimi or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither mimi nor Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mimi or Countdown Widget?
mimi ships an update monthly, and Countdown Widget daily. Most recently, mimi was updated on November 4, 2026 and Countdown Widget on November 1, 2026.

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