Vacation Countdown Widget vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vacation Countdown Widget
This app helps you keep track of important upcoming events like birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Create visually appealing countdowns with custom colors and images, and display them directly on your home screen using widgets. Never miss a special occasion again.
- Event countdown creation
- Customizable colors
- Premium stock images
- User-uploaded images
- iOS 14 Widgets support
- Dark mode support
- Unlimited event creation
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CountDown reminds you your most precious events. It is free, easy to use, and you really will not miss your anniversary, your loved one’s birthday and many more. Eager to know how much time do you have for preparations? Christmas, Thanksgiving, Vacation, Graduation, Concert, Wedding or a Trip will not arrive until you are not fully prepared! Create colorful CountDowns, pick the best color for the occasion. Add high quality premium stock image or you can also add your own too! Best thing is, all the images are free! Thanks to Widgets introduced in iOS 14, you can pin your most important events. CountDown supports Dark mode. With CountDown you can create as many events as you like, so you won’t forget anything ever again! I’d like to hear your voice, if you have any feedback, question or suggestion, please contact me at csab.huszar@gmail.com! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.icloud.com/pages/0RE52SLqpvNVdqwmqGEFwHkWA#countdown%5Fprivacy%5Fpolicy
Countdown
Create personalized countdowns for all your important events, from birthdays to vacations. Share your special occasions with friends and family using beautiful templates and receive notification reminders as events approach.
- Personalized countdown cards
- Notification reminders
- Shareable event templates
- Live countdowns
- Event location mapping
- Activity and accommodation finder
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Count down to birthdays, parties, weddings, anniversaries, vacations, graduations and more with the FWD event countdown app. Create personalized countdown cards and share your special occasions with family and friends, using beautiful, ready-made templates. Count down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to all of your special occasions. Never forget a birthday or anniversary again, since you get notification reminders as your important events are approaching. * Add your own photos to your countdown cards * See all your events counting down live as the seconds tick and tock * Share your events in messaging apps and on social media using beautiful templates * See your events on a map * Find fun activities near your events * Find hotels and places to stay near your events * Wanna reminisce? Count the seconds since your past events What are you looking FWD to? PRIVACY POLICY: https://www.gototravelguides.net/privacy TERMS OF USE: https://www.gototravelguides.net/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown at 100% against Vacation Countdown Widget's 30%. Countdown also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Vacation Countdown Widget's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (101 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Vacation Countdown Widget sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month and Countdown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vacation Countdown Widget has 101 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Vacation Countdown Widget's written reviews are positive against 100% of Countdown's.
Vacation Countdown Widget ships an update every 5 days, Countdown every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and July 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vacation Countdown Widget | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (101 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Csaba Huszar | Mason Ifejika |
Customer experience
Vacation Countdown Widget
Countdown
In-app purchases
Vacation Countdown Widget
- CountDown Premium3 Days trial$5.991 Month
Countdown
- Premium Access (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Premium Access (Yearly)$9.491 Year
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