StarDay vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Countdown
Track important dates and count down to special events or count the days since a significant moment. Receive timely notifications and visualize your progress with beautiful counters. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with iCloud syncing across devices.
- Ad-free experience
- Home screen widgets
- Light and dark mode support
- Count in days, weeks, months, hours, minutes
- iCloud device syncing
- Customizable event sorting
- Event notifications
- Shareable live counters
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Countdown will help you to count down the days until a special event or, count from the days since an important moment in your life. You'll receive notifications when it's time. Countdown to birthdays, holidays, an upcoming vacation, weddings, the New Year, parties, sporting events, concerts, and more. features: - No advertisements - Add your events as widgets to your iOS home screen - Support for light and dark mode - Count with days, weeks, months, hours, minutes - Sync with all your devices from iCloud - Sort events by name or date, ascending or descending - Sort by repeating and one-time events - Receive notifications when it's time - Beautiful fullscreen live counter - Share the image with live counter with friends and family - No third-party tracking or analytics services are used. No personal data is shared with anyone. - Default library with beautiful pictures to use for your events
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StarDay at none against Countdown's 1. StarDay also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and ratings volume (576 vs 26). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. StarDay asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for StarDay against 4.8 for Countdown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StarDay has 576 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two.
StarDay ships an update weekly, Countdown monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StarDay | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (576 ratings) | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 576 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AboutMe Apps, Inc. | Discoveruapps v.o.f. |
Customer experience
StarDay
Countdown
Bugs and 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
Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StarDay
No in-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown+$1.99
