Countdown vs StarDay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track important life events and holidays with unlimited countdowns. Set custom reminders and personalize the appearance of each countdown to stay organized and never miss a special occasion.
- Unlimited countdowns for life events and holidays
- Push notification reminders
- Customizable color themes for each countdown
- Single view for all countdowns
- Counts up after event arrival
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The countdown is an app with unlimited countdown for your life events: birthdays, weddings, spring break, graduation, cruises, trips, retirement, concerts, and any memorable events in your calendar. Also, countdown to holidays such as Christmas, Easter, New Year, and Valentine's, you name it whatever you want and keep track and give push notification reminders to you. Countdown features • All your countdowns in a beautiful single view. • Countdown to events and counting up once they arrive • Push notifications to remind you of an event • Customize the colours of each countdown How to use : Download the app, run the app, and add a countdown. To add a count, you must give the count's name, the happening date, and the colour theme. What Type of countdown can you add? Birthday Countdown Weddings Countdown Christmas Countdown Easter Countdown New Years Countdown Valentines Countdown Spring break Countdown Graduation Countdown Cruise Countdown Trips Countdown Retirement Countdown Concerts Countdown Please like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/countdowncount Have any questions? Just email hello@emmito.co for help
StarDay
Easily track important life events with unlimited countdowns. Customize widgets to visualize your progress and forget about intrusive advertisements. This app helps you stay on top of your milestones.
- Unlimited countdowns
- Customizable widgets
- Streak tracking
- Ad-free experience
- Event tracking
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Do you need to track some important events in your life? Try our new app. Add unlimited countdowns, customize widgets, forget about noisy ads. Terms of use: https://about-me.app/terms_of_use Privacy policy: https://about-me.app/privacy_policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: StarDay at 68% against Countdown's 0%. StarDay also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.8 vs 1.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
StarDay is free to download; Countdown costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StarDay holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StarDay has 576 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 68% of StarDay's.
Countdown ships an update fortnightly, StarDay weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | StarDay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (576 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 68.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 576 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Emmito (Pvt) Ltd | AboutMe Apps, Inc. |
Customer experience
Countdown
StarDay
Bugs and requests
Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
StarDay
Reported bugs
2 issues- Widget not displaying custom countdowns
- Countdown restarting unexpectedly after deleting an event
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to display multiple countdowns on widget
- Option to customize countdown display (time, background, etc.)
- Automatic sorting of events by date
In-app purchases
Countdown
No in-app purchases
StarDay
No in-app purchases
