Count Time Until & Days Since vs Up Ahead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Count Time Until & Days Since
Track time counting down to or up from important events like birthdays, trips, or anniversaries. Customize counters with images and colors, organize them into categories, and view them on your home screen with widgets. Set smart alerts and sync across devices.
- Personalize with images and colors
- Count up or down for events
- Organize events by category
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Smart alerts for important dates
- Recurring event scheduling
- iCloud sync across devices
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Count Time – Your Personal Event Tracker Track time counting down or up for your most important moments—whether it’s a birthday, a concert, a trip, or any special date. Count Time is designed to be simple, intuitive, and highly customizable, so you can always stay on top of what matters most. “Nice! Simple and beautiful!” “This app is amazing! I track all my important events effortlessly. It’s super easy to use, and the customization options are fantastic.” “Works exactly as expected with no ads! The UI feels like a native iOS app, making it seamless to use.” FEATURES Personalization: Customize your time counters with your own images or vibrant colors to make each event unique. Count Up or Down: Track events before or after they happen—perfect for countdowns and anniversaries. Categories & Organization: Keep everything tidy by sorting your events into categories for quick access. Widgets for Home & Lock Screen: See your most important events at a glance with beautifully designed widgets. Smart Alerts: Set up to two notifications per event, so you’ll never forget an important date. Recurring Events: Easily schedule events to repeat automatically on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. iCloud Sync: Keep all your time counters and categories synced across your devices seamlessly. Share Your Counter: Spread the excitement—share your event counters on social media with just a tap! Terms of Use: javiergallo.com/count-time/terms
Up Ahead
A visually appealing app to track upcoming events with customizable countdown widgets for your Home and Lock Screens. Create events in seconds and personalize them with unique patterns. Stay organized with reminders and attachments.
- Customizable countdown widgets
- Event timeline view
- Unlockable decorative patterns
- Flexible reminders
- Event attachments (notes/links)
- Recurring and multi-day events
- iCloud backups
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Up Ahead is a playful, beautiful way to keep track of everything you’re looking forward to. Create events in seconds, and build yourself an eclectic timeline full of birthdays, weddings, holidays, vacations, game releases, sporting events, or anything coming up that brings you joy. As your timeline grows, you’ll unlock themed patterns that can be used to give your events personality. Keep your countdowns top of mind with customizable widgets for your Home Screen or Lock Screen. --- CREATE EVENTS Up Ahead events are quick and simple to create — just give your event a name, a date (with optional time), a category icon, and a color. EVENT TIMELINE View your events in a unique timeline format that gives you visual information about how much time is passing between events, and allows you to easily look back on your entire event history. PATTERNS As you create events, you’ll start to unlock decorative patterns that can be applied to any of your events and appear in both your in-app timeline and your widgets. Patterns are unlocked based on the content of your events, or as weekly gifts. How many can you find? REMINDERS Schedule flexible reminders to get notified about the events you don't want to miss. ATTACHMENTS Keep all your event information in one place by attaching short notes or links to your events. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS * "Countdown" widgets are simple widgets for counting down to a specific event. * "Coming up" widgets come in multiple sizes and will dynamically count down to whatever event is coming up next. They can be customized with filters and display names, allowing you to create widgets such as “Next Raptors game” or “Upcoming game releases”. * "Timeline grid" widgets give you a colorful high-level overview of all your upcoming events. LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Simplified versions of “Countdown” and “Coming up” widgets are available to place right on your Lock Screen. SIRI SHORTCUTS Automate event creation or ask Siri about your events with Siri Shortcuts. TIMELINE FILTERING Quickly filter your events temporarily so that you can get a clean look at just the film releases you’re looking forward to, or the birthdays you want to remember. RECURRING EVENTS Mark an event as recurring — weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or yearly — to have it automatically replace itself in your timeline when an instance of the event has passed. MULTI-DAY EVENTS Give an event an optional end date to countdown to both an event’s beginning and its end. ICLOUD BACKUPS Automatically back up your events and pattern unlocks to iCloud Drive to ensure you never lose access to your data. EVENT SHARING Lightweight event sharing allows you to export and share colorful images of any event. SOUND AND HAPTICS Delightful sound effects and haptics bring the app to life. ...and lots more fun stuff to discover. --- The free version of Up Ahead is free forever, and contains no ads. If you’re looking for the best way to simply pop a few good-looking countdown widgets onto your Home Screen or Lock Screen, downloading Up Ahead for free is a great place to start. With an in-app subscription to Up Ahead Plus, you’ll get all the bells and whistles: unlimited event creation, recurring and multi-day events, the full suite of widget types, and more. --- Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Privacy policy: https://upaheadapp.com/privacy Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Up Ahead at 4.9 against Count Time Until & Days Since's 4.6. Up Ahead also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 61%) and ratings volume (684 vs 148). Count Time Until & Days Since's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). 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. Count Time Until & Days Since sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Up Ahead sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Up Ahead holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 148 and 684 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Count Time Until & Days Since's written reviews are positive against 84% of Up Ahead's.
Count Time Until & Days Since ships an update fortnightly, Up Ahead every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Count Time Until & Days Since | Up Ahead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (148 ratings) | 4.9 (684 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews | 83.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 148 | 684 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Javier Gallo Roca | Daniel Gauthier |
Customer experience
Count Time Until & Days Since
Up Ahead
Bugs and requests
Count Time Until & Days Since
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Up Ahead
Reported bugs
5 issues- Widget doesn't update automatically
- Backup feature doesn't work
- Sound effects stopped working
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
11 requests- Unlock all patterns
- More color options
- More icons and customization
- Calendar integration
- Siri and reminder integration
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- iPad app
- Apple Watch complications
- Ability to set end dates for recurring events
- Periodic reminders for past events
- Family sharing
- Import events from other calendars
In-app purchases
Count Time Until & Days Since
- Monthly Plan$1.991 Month
- Weekly Plan3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Welcome Annual Plan1 Year trial$9.991 Year
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- Annual Plan3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
Up Ahead
- Up Ahead Plus$1.491 Month
- Up Ahead Plus$9.991 Year
- Up Ahead Plus$29.99
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