Comparison

Drive Logger vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Drive Logger

Easily log your supervised driving practice to meet licensing requirements. Track daytime and nighttime drives with simple one-tap recording and view your progress at a glance. All your data is securely stored on your device.

Highlights
  • Log practice drives with one tap
  • Track daytime and nighttime driving
  • View driving history and statistics
  • Manual drive recording
  • Export drive data
  • iOS 14 home screen widgets
  • On-device data storage
  • Open source
Features
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Got your drivers permit? Now you need to practice driving in order to get your full license. Drive Logger helps you log how much you have been driving making sure that you get your practice hours in. # Simple, Easy, Fast It takes just one tap to start recording your current drive. When you're finished, one tap records it. This simplicity allows you to focus on learning how to drive while giving you peace of mind that you’re getting your required hours. # Information at a glance Easily see how long you have been driving, broken down into daytime and nighttime drives. Additionally, view statistics about your driving habits. iOS 14 homescreen widgets allow you to easily see your progress. # Completely on device None of your data is sent over the internet. Instead, it is stored completely on device. Drive Logger is an open source app, so anyone can take a look at the source code. Features: - View your driving history at a glance, broken down by day and night drives - One tap to start recording a drive and one tap to save it - Fast and easy to use - Manually record drives - Export your drive data - iOS 14 Widgets allow you to track your progress from your home screen - All data is stored on device - Open source

About

Countdown

Visually track important dates and goals with customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set up countdowns and count-ups for personal milestones, habits, or deadlines. Sync across devices and receive timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurrent event tracking
  • Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Customizable designs and templates
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Notifications for key dates
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Drive Logger4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Countdown at 4.7 against Drive Logger's 4.1. Countdown also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 15). Drive Logger's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Drive Logger asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3.1K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Drive Logger's written reviews are positive against 82% of Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Drive Logger versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrive LoggerCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (15 ratings)4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews82.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings153.1K — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB143 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRonan Furutakeinois OU

Customer experience

Drive Logger

All ratings15 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

Countdown

All ratings3,117 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews615 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative12.5%

Bugs and requests

Drive Logger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

In-app purchases

None

Drive Logger

No in-app purchases

14 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions10
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is Drive Logger free?
Drive Logger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Drive Logger or Countdown?
Countdown is rated higher. Drive Logger averages 4.1 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Countdown averages 4.7 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Drive Logger or Countdown have ads?
Neither Drive Logger nor Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drive Logger or Countdown?
Drive Logger ships an update weekly, and Countdown weekly. Most recently, Drive Logger was updated on October 14, 2026 and Countdown on October 22, 2026.

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