Countdown Timer & Day Counter vs NameWheel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Timer & Day Counter
Easily track important future events and past anniversaries. Set up custom reminders with personalized backgrounds and share your countdowns with friends. This app helps you never miss a special day.
- Countdown to future events
- Count-up from past events
- Push notification reminders
- Customizable backgrounds
- Share events with friends
- Date calculator
- Multiple themes
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Never lose track of the moments that matter. Time Counter lets you count down to future events or see exactly how much time has passed since an important date. Create counters for birthdays, anniversaries, trips, goals, memories, special occasions, or anything else you want to remember. Add reminders, photos, colors, and icons to make every counter your own. Keep your most important counters right on your Home Screen with customizable widgets, or quickly create a counter by importing an event from your calendar. Features: • Count down to future dates • Track time passed since past dates • Home Screen widgets • Calendar event import • Notifications and reminders • Add photos to your counters • Custom colors and icons • Multiple display styles • Sort and search your records • Share your counters • Light and colorful themes • Detailed time tracking in years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds Create as many counters as you need and keep life's important moments close at hand. Time Counter Premium is available as a one-time purchase to remove ads permanently. No subscription.
NameWheel
This app simulates a spinning wheel for random selection, offering various modes and customization options. It's designed for classrooms, teams, and events, providing fair and verifiable results.
- Realistic spinning wheel simulation
- Multiple selection modes (Normal, Eliminate, Teams, Bracket)
- Customizable themes, sounds, and haptics
- AI-powered list generation
- Certified draws with public proof pages
- Support for up to 300 names
- Present mode for large displays
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NameWheel is a random name picker that feels like a real wheel. Flick it with your finger, hear every click, and watch Tick the pointer bounce as the winner lands. Made for classrooms, teams, game night, giveaways and streams. FREE • Spin with a flick or a tap • Normal and Eliminate modes • Up to 50 names on a wheel, one saved wheel • Try every mode, theme, sound and effect; the Full version is asked for when you spin • 3 themes, sounds, haptics and confetti • Ready lists: yes or no, truth or dare, days, months, numbers, dinner ideas • Share the names, or save the wheel as a picture • AI Fill writes 3 lists for you (free account) • One certified draw with a public proof page (free account) FULL VERSION, ONE PAYMENT • Teams, Tally, Bracket and Prizes modes • Up to 300 names on a wheel, as many saved wheels as you like • Photos next to names and your logo in the middle, kept on your phone • Teams you can edit: move names, rename, lock a team • No repeats, Mystery wheel, Auto spin and weighted entries • Seven wheels made of different things: glass, paper, carnival stripes with bulbs, marble, candy, black glass and wood • 19 sounds and 11 winner effects with real physics • Present mode on iPad, for the whole room • Export the winners as text or a spreadsheet • AI Fill: 10 lists in any 30 days NAMEWHEEL PRO, MONTHLY OR YEARLY • Your wheels on every device and on namewheel.org • Share a link that opens your wheel for anyone • AI Fill as much as you need • 20 certified draws a day • Everything in the Full version while PRO is on FAIR BY DESIGN Every spin picks the winner with the phone's secure random source before the wheel moves, then the wheel turns to that name. A certified draw goes further: the result is sealed on our server before the spin, and anyone can check it afterwards on a public proof page. ON IPAD Two panes in landscape, Split View, a hardware keyboard (Space spins) and Present mode for a projector. Prices in the United States: Full version $4.99, one payment. PRO $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Prices differ by country. PRO renews automatically until you cancel in Settings, then your Apple Account, then Subscriptions, at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Terms of Use: https://namewheel.org/terms Privacy Policy: https://namewheel.org/privacy NameWheel is made by Outline Technologies LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: NameWheel at none against Countdown Timer & Day Counter's shown. Countdown Timer & Day Counter's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Countdown Timer & Day Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and NameWheel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NameWheel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Timer & Day Counter has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Countdown Timer & Day Counter | NameWheel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (54 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ramazan celikkaya | Outline Technologies LLC |
In-app purchases
Countdown Timer & Day Counter
- Anzeigen entfernen$3.99
NameWheel
- PRO Monthly$9.991 Month
- PRO Yearly$49.991 Year
- Full version$4.99
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