Comparison

Countdown Widget & Counter vs Bin Squad

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Live countdown widgets
  • Customizable widget templates
  • Event editor with live preview
  • Color gradients
  • Over 50 icons
  • Real-time push notifications
Features
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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!

About

Bin Squad

Features
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Trash day comes round every week, and it is still the easiest thing in the house to forget. Bin Squad is the reminder that turns up the night before, when there is still time to do something about it. No account. No address. No sign-up. You tell it which cans you have and when they go out, and that is the last admin it ever asks of you. WHAT IT DOES Reminds you the evening before, when you actually roll the can out, and again on the morning of pickup in case last night did not happen. Both are optional, and both have times you choose. Handles however many cans you have. Weekly, every other week, or any interval you like, each with its own color, its own name and its own schedule. Cans going out on the same day are treated as one trip to the curb, because that is what it is. Warns you about holidays. It never quietly moves a pickup: cities and haulers shift them inconsistently, and guessing would produce exactly the wrong reminder. It tells you a holiday is coming and lets you move that one pickup yourself if yours is affected. Lets you skip or move a single pickup without touching the pattern. Changed your mind? Every skip and move is listed, with a button to put it back. Keeps quiet hours, so a reminder never arrives at 6:30 on a Sunday morning. THE CREW Captain Garbage runs a crew of cans with rather more personality than the job requires. General Gus, Recycler Ray, Compost Chloe, Caddy Carl, Yellow Bella, and Barry, who is a rat and owns no can at all. Mark a pickup as done and you build a streak. Clear every collection in a week and that is a Perfect Week. Keep it up and more of the crew turn up, twenty or so of them, each with a job title and strong opinions about trash. None of it ever gets in the way of the information. Every reminder names the can, the day and what you need to do, however daft the line underneath it is. OR NONE OF THAT Pick "Just the facts" and the whole thing goes quiet. Plain colors, plain icons, no crew, no streaks, no jokes. Same dates, same reminders, same app underneath. Your pickup schedule does not change because you did not want a cartoon rat. You can switch between the two whenever you like, and your progress is still there if you switch back. WHAT IT COSTS Free with two cans, the trash and the recycling, which is what most households put out. That includes the reminders, the holiday warnings, the skips and moves, and the whole points, streaks and rewards side of it. Nothing is time limited and there is no trial to forget about. The Full Experience removes the limit, so you can add the yard waste, the compost, the glass and whatever else your city collects, and it opens the rest of the crew to be earned. Monthly, yearly, or a one-time payment if you would rather never think about it again. YOUR DATA STAYS HERE Everything lives on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account to make, and we never ask where you live. You can export the lot to a plain file to keep, or to send to whoever else in the house deals with the trash. A NOTE ON DATES Your pickup dates come from what you enter, not from your city. Bin Squad reminds you of the schedule you gave it. If something looks wrong, check with your city or hauler, and Cap will follow whatever you tell him. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gabbotech.com/privacy/binsquad/ The Full Experience is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a single payment for lifetime access. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple account on confirmation, and you can manage or cancel renewal in your Apple account settings at any time.

Screenshots

Countdown Widget & Counter4 screens
Bin Squad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bin Squad at none against Countdown Widget & Counter's 11. Bin Squad also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Countdown Widget & Counter's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Countdown Widget & Counter sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Bin Squad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown Widget & Counter ships an update every 3 weeks, Bin Squad every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Countdown Widget & Counter versus Bin Squad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown Widget & CounterBin Squad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSovereign Apps LLCGavin McNamee

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

Bin Squad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Countdown Widget & Counter

Subscriptions8
  • 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
One-time2
  • Widget Studio Pro Lifetime$9.99
  • Widget Studio Pro Lifetime$14.99
None

Bin Squad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown Widget & Counter free?
Countdown Widget & Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bin Squad free?
Bin Squad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Countdown Widget & Counter or Bin Squad have ads?
Neither Countdown Widget & Counter nor Bin Squad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Widget & Counter or Bin Squad?
Countdown Widget & Counter ships an update every 3 weeks, and Bin Squad every 2 days. Most recently, Countdown Widget & Counter was updated on November 3, 2026 and Bin Squad on October 10, 2026.

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