Widget Countdown vs snoozetaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable events
- Home screen widgets
- Lock screen widgets
- Colourful gradients
- Custom background images
- Custom font choice
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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...
snoozetaker
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An alarm clock that wakes you with a wave, a rainfall or a fire in the grate, so the first thing you hear in the morning isn't an emergency. RINGS WHEN IT MATTERS On iOS 26, snoozetaker schedules a system alarm, so a Focus or the ring/silent switch will not keep it quiet — the same way the built-in clock behaves. On earlier versions it rings through notifications instead, for five minutes rather than one polite beep. Switch on a backup ring and an alarm nobody answers comes back a few minutes later. A gentle sound is one you can sleep through, so the safety net is there if you want it. It is off unless you ask. SOUNDS RECORDED OUTDOORS Rain in pine woods, a dawn chorus, gulls over a harbour, a wood stove, frogs at night, waves drawing back over a pebble beach. Most are field recordings; all are public domain, CC0 or CC-BY, and every loop is seamless, so nothing clicks or restarts. Some are two sounds at once — rain on a fire, gulls over surf, a stream under a dawn chorus — mixed together properly rather than layered at playback, so they arrive as one sound. Everything is included and everything works offline. There is nothing to unlock. A GENTLER MORNING Choose how long the alarm takes to reach full volume: off, or anything up to two minutes. Snooze as many times as you like — that is the default. Cap it if you would rather, or have each snooze come back shorter than the last, so a lie-in has a natural end instead of quietly swallowing an hour. Once you have snoozed, moving the phone snoozes it again, so you need not find the button in the dark. SEVEN O'CLOCK ON WEEKDAYS, HALF PAST EIGHT ON SATURDAY That is one alarm, not two. One thing to switch off when you go away, and one to switch back on. SLEEP SOUNDS TOO The same catalogue plays you to sleep, for anything from ten minutes to an hour and a half, fading out at the end so the stopping never wakes you. NOTHING TO SIGN UP FOR No account, no email, no subscription. There is no snoozetaker server for your alarms to sync to: they live on your device and nowhere else. The app collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: snoozetaker at none against Widget Countdown's 1. snoozetaker also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price 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. Widget Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. snoozetaker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Countdown ships an update monthly, snoozetaker every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Countdown | snoozetaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (54 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bradley Cable | Elaine Bevington |
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
snoozetaker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Countdown
- Remove Ads$1.99
snoozetaker
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Widget Countdown free?
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