Comparison

Widget Countdown vs Alarm Friends

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

Head to head
About

Widget Countdown

Create custom countdowns for any event and display them directly on your home and lock screens. Personalize your countdowns with gradients, background images, and fonts. All features are free to use.

Highlights
  • Customizable events
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Colourful gradients
  • Custom background images
  • Custom font choice
Features
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A truly free countdown app. Where you can create fully customisable events and add them to your Home Screen. No need for a silly subscription to add widgets or images; all the features in this app are free and always will be. Main Features: - Colourful Gradients - Custom Background Images (from library or AI-generated) - Custom Font Choice - Home screen & Lock Screen Widgets Useful for: - Friends’ Birthdays - Upcoming events - When that important deadline is coming up - Concerts / Festivals - School and Exams - Holidays - Reminders - Appointments This app allows you to keep everyday events close to heart...

About

Alarm Friends

Features
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A message to future you. Wake up and show up. AlarmFriends is an alarm clock and a reminder app in one, built around one idea: you do things when you know why, and when someone is in it with you. ALARMS WITH A REASON Give an alarm a name, like Gym or Work, and set it for a time and the days you want. Add a reminder for the morning, and it is the first thing you see when you turn the alarm off. Alarms ring through the iPhone alarm system, so they sound even on silent. WAKE UP WITH FRIENDS Put friends on an alarm and you wake up together. You see who is up, who snoozed, and when they got up. A wake window lets each person pick their own time inside it. Nobody is added without saying yes. REMINDERS AT THE RIGHT TIME OR PLACE Tap Remind future me, write what you need to remember and pick when: a day and a time, when you get home, when you leave home, or when you get to a place you choose on the map. The reminder waits until then. Place reminders work with the app closed. REMEMBER THINGS TOGETHER Share a reminder with a friend and you both get it at the same time or at the same place. Each of you can take it off your own list. YOUR DAY ON ONE SCREEN Today shows your next alarm, the places where reminders are waiting, and what is left of the day. If you turn it on, your iPhone calendar shows up here too. The calendar is only read on your phone. Nothing is changed and nothing is uploaded. MAKE IT YOURS Light, Navy or Dark. 18 colours, four colour styles and four fonts. Change it whenever you like. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads and no tracking. Your live location stays on your phone; only the places you pick for reminders are saved to your account. Friends see only what you share with them. Sign in with Apple, Google or a code sent to your email.

Screenshots

Widget Countdown4 screens
Alarm Friends4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Alarm Friends at none against Widget Countdown's 1. Alarm Friends also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. Widget Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Alarm Friends asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Widget Countdown versus Alarm Friends: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget CountdownAlarm Friends
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBradley CableGunnar Bjorn Gunnarsson

Bugs and requests

Widget Countdown

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Widgets disappear after app update
  • Widget shows blank space or doesn't display
  • Cannot save new events or edits
  • Photo selection window closes unexpectedly
  • Primary and secondary color options don't work
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  • Widget stuck in 'continue editing' mode
  • App crashes regularly requiring reinstall
  • Widget functionality broken on some iOS versions
  • App stops working after update
  • Cannot add events to widget

Requested features

15 requests
  • Multi-language support
  • Customizable time format (days, hours, minutes combinations)
  • Count-up feature in addition to countdown
  • Recurring events (weekly, monthly, yearly)
  • Ability to rearrange events manually or by date
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  • Countdown with time of day (not just midnight)
  • Font preview before selection
  • Ticking clock animation with hours, minutes, seconds
  • Medium widget size option
  • Automatic removal of past events from widget
  • Format with years, months, and days display
  • Date format customization (MM/DD/YYYY for US users)
  • Wide-format widget option
  • Ability to label countdowns separately from display text
  • Adjustable text position and styling on widgets

Alarm Friends

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Widget Countdown

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Alarm Friends

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widget Countdown free?
Widget Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alarm Friends free?
Alarm Friends is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Widget Countdown or Alarm Friends have ads?
Widget Countdown shows ads; Alarm Friends does not.

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