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
Easily track important upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Set reminders, sync with your calendar, and share progress with friends and family. Organize your life and never miss a moment.
- Customizable countdowns
- Event reminders
- Calendar event sync
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Share countdowns
- Light and dark mode
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Welcome to DayPlus. We make counting down days and events easy. Customize the countdown to perfectly suit your needs with backgrounds, colors, and reminders. Keep track of your countdowns on the app, lock screen, and home screen. You can even import and sync calendar events. Highlights: • Quickly create and track countdowns for goals, trips, births, weddings and other important events. • Customizable event balls and cards • Reminders for each countdowns • Sync Calendar items into DayPlus • Share event countdowns with friends and family • Track all countdowns on the timeline • Light and dark mode • Repeat countdowns every day or week • Pin important events • Easy sorting Download DayPlus now! Counting down days and events just got easy. Customize, sync, track, and share countdowns on your app, lock screen, and home screen. Don’t miss any important event - Set reminders and stay organized. Let the countdown begin! Do you have suggestions? Contact us at hlai.manjun@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://manjun.tech/doc/en/privacy-policy.html Terms of Service: https://manjun.tech/doc/en/user-agreement.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: StarDay at Free against Countdown's $4.99. StarDay also leads on ratings volume (576 vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Countdown's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 68%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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 $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StarDay has 576 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of StarDay's written reviews are positive against 92% of Countdown's.
StarDay ships an update weekly, Countdown fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StarDay | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (576 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 576 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | +4 |
| Developer | AboutMe Apps, Inc. | Manjun Tech |
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
No in-app purchases
