Countdown Widget & Counter vs Count Days
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Widget & Counter
Create customizable widgets to track upcoming events directly on your home screen. Visualize your countdowns with beautiful designs, icons, and color gradients. Receive real-time notifications for important dates.
- Live countdown widgets
- Customizable widget templates
- Event editor with live preview
- Color gradients
- Over 50 icons
- Real-time push notifications
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Keep an eye on your upcoming events - directly on your Home Screen! Create minimalistic widgets that countdown to the big day. The widgets in Widget Studio are highly customizable and clean-designed, so that nothing distracts your focus from the concert, your best friend‘s birthday or whatever you‘re currently looking forward to! It‘s quick, easy, and looks awesome. Welcome to Widget Studio. So, what do we have here? - Powerful event editor with live preview - Multiple customizable widget templates for iPhone & iPad - Beautiful color gradients for your Home Screen - Over 50 different icons to choose from - Real time push notifications for your events - Full support for Voice Over and Dynamic Type - Live countdown widgets Info: Most of the app's content is free. Some selected features require the purchase of a full version in the app (recurring annual subscription). We rely on your support to make development possible. Thank you for your understanding! :) Terms of Use (EULA) & Privacy Policy: https://cranberry.app/legal We have put a lot of love into the development of Widget Studio and hope you enjoy it. However, if you have something to complain about, or an exciting idea for future updates or additional apps of Widget Studio, please feel free to contact us at any time via support@cranberry.app. We are looking forward to your message. Take care!
Count Days
Track time to important events with detailed countdowns. See days, hours, minutes, and seconds until your next birthday or trip. Create recurring reminders that reset automatically.
- Event countdowns
- Time elapsed tracking
- Days, hours, minutes, seconds
- iCloud sync
- Recurring countdowns
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Count Days helps you track time to your next event like a birthday, trip, or anything important. You can count down or see how much time has passed since a date, with time shown in days, hours, minutes and seconds. Your events sync with iCloud, and you can create recurring countdowns that reset automatically perfect for birthdays or yearly reminders. The app is simple, completely free and has no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown Widget & Counter at fortnightly against Count Days's every 4 months. Countdown Widget & Counter also leads on ratings volume (2.4K vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Count Days's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Countdown Widget & Counter sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Count Days sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Count Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget & Counter has 2.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Countdown Widget & Counter ships an update fortnightly, Count Days every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Widget & Counter | Count Days |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.4K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Good App Company, Limited Liability Company | Tomasz Lewinski |
Bugs and requests
Countdown Widget & Counter
Reported bugs
7 issues- Time calculation isn't correct
- Widget and in-app display show different days remaining
- Widget goes blank after phone restart
- Countdowns freeze or count up unexpectedly
- Paid version still shows ads
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- Widgets disappear after iOS updates
- App loses all user data after updates
Requested features
11 requests- Better integration with calendar and reminder API
- Ability to rearrange events in the countdown list
- Option to default 'What's Next' to user's choice
- Larger photo frame in widget
- Ability to group events into categories
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- Option to change font
- Ability to select an emoji for icons
- Notification times for events
- Ability to select the countdown unit (weeks/months)
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Count Days
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Widget & Counter
- Widget Studio PRO$1.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
- Widget Studio PRO$4.991 Year
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- Widget Studio PRO$5.991 Year
- Widget Studio PRO2 variants$7.991 Year
- Widget Studio PRO$8.991 Year
- Annual Subscription3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Widget Studio PRO$12.991 Year
- Widget Studio Pro Lifetime$9.99
- Widget Studio Pro Lifetime$14.99
Count Days
- Tiny Tip$0.99
- Small Tip$1.99
- Big Tip$3.99
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- Amazing Tip$6.99
Questions
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