Comparison

Count Time Until & Days Since vs Seating Chart

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Seating Chart

Features
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Type the names. Add the rules. Get a chart. Seat these two together. Keep apart the two who should not share a table. Fix someone to the head table. Keep someone off table three. The solver takes those rules and assigns every seat around them. It tells you who it could not seat. Other seating apps hand you a grid and let you drag names. When the room does not work, they stay quiet. This one names the person: "Kira Lund could not be placed at Table 3 — it is full." That is a sentence you can act on. You add a seat, drop a rule, or decide it is fine. Pinned seats stay put. Long-press any seat to pin it. Solve again, change the tables, add ten more guests — the seats you fixed do not move. The most common complaint about the best-reviewed app in this category is that it rearranges the layout on its own. This one cannot: pinning is the one thing the solver is not allowed to touch. No guest limit. Not on guests, not on tables, not on rules, not on events. There is no upgrade screen because there is nothing to upgrade to. The whole app is here. It is not only for weddings. 24 layout presets across weddings, classrooms, banquets, meetings, parties and community halls. Round tables, long banquet runs, U-shapes, classroom rows, bar counters. Every table can have its own shape and its own number of seats. Share the chart. One card with every table, every name, and how many rules held. Send it to the caterer, pin it to the classroom door, text it to the group. No account. Works in airplane mode. Guest names never leave your iPhone — nothing is uploaded, and the app asks for no permissions at all.

Screenshots

Count Time Until & Days Since4 screens
Seating Chart3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seating Chart at none against Count Time Until & Days Since's 6. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Count Time Until & Days Since sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Seating Chart asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Count Time Until & Days Since versus Seating Chart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount Time Until & Days SinceSeating Chart
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (168 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings168 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJavier Gallo RocaJinwan Kim

Bugs and requests

Count Time Until & Days Since

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Widget is always days behind
  • Widget does not update when opening the app
  • Times are jumping ahead (e.g., midnight to 1 am)
  • App keeps closing out when viewing a countdown for too long
  • App crashes on launch after adding multiple counters
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  • Widget shows 'unlock count Time +' making it unusable

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add custom and week day repetition (Mon-Fri)
  • Allow 'all day events' similar to calendar
  • Let users pick what dates of time to use (checkboxes for units)
  • Allow custom repeat events
  • Add custom and multiple alerts
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  • Show more precise time units (e.g., fractional hours)
  • Improve widget accuracy and display actual days
  • Widgets should open to the selected countdown
  • Default time to 12 am instead of current time
  • UI tweaks to display most recent events
  • Option to send a tip
  • Show image when sharing an event in a message

Seating Chart

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Count Time Until & Days Since

Subscriptions5
  • 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
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99
None

Seating Chart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Count Time Until & Days Since free?
Count Time Until & Days Since is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Seating Chart free?
Seating Chart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Count Time Until & Days Since or Seating Chart have ads?
Neither Count Time Until & Days Since nor Seating Chart shows ads.

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