Comparison

Countdown # vs Interview

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

Head to head
About

Countdown #

Keep track of important dates with a stylish countdown. Never miss a vacation, anniversary, or birthday again with customizable reminders and alerts. Features a clean design and useful widgets for easy event management.

Highlights
  • Event countdowns
  • Customizable widgets
  • Event sorting
  • Reminders and alerts
  • Clean UI/UX design
  • Icon customization
Features
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Make every moment count. Count down to vacations, anniversaries, birthdays, and everything you’re looking forward to. With Memories, count up from the days that changed your life—your first date, your wedding, or a personal achievement—and celebrate every milestone along the way. Features: - Live countdowns for upcoming events - Memories that count the days, hours, minutes, and seconds since special moments - Upcoming anniversaries and milestones to celebrate - Beautiful widgets to keep your favorite moments in view - A clean, intuitive design - Easy event sorting - Reminders for important dates - Daily alerts for your featured event - Flexible date and time settings - Custom icons and colors to make every moment your own Look forward to what’s next. Treasure how far you’ve come.

About

Interview

Record conversations and automatically generate transcripts that identify each speaker. This app processes everything on your device, ensuring your data remains private and secure. Share your transcripts in various formats when you're ready.

Highlights
  • On-device recording and transcription
  • Automatic speaker identification
  • Privacy-focused, no cloud processing
  • Multiple export formats (Text, Markdown, Word, PDF)
  • Multi-language support
  • Import existing audio/video
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Record the conversation. Get a transcript that says who said what. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Interview is a recorder for conversations that can't leak: client meetings, interviews, research sessions, anything you'd rather keep to yourself. Tap Record, talk, tap Done. Minutes later you have a transcript with every line labeled by the person who said it. All of it happens on your phone. No account, no servers, no upload. The only way an interview leaves your phone is when you share it yourself. KNOWS WHO'S TALKING Interview tells the voices in the room apart and labels every line. Name a speaker once and everything they said is labeled. If it isn't sure, it asks instead of guessing. REMEMBERS THE PEOPLE YOU INTERVIEW Name someone once and Interview recognizes them next time. It learns your own voice during setup, so you're labeled automatically. Remembered voices are yours to delete, any time. SHARE ON YOUR TERMS Send the transcript as text, Markdown, Word or PDF, with or without the audio. Nothing is shared until you choose to. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese, and picks the language on its own. Some languages need a one-time download from Apple the first time. ALREADY HAVE A RECORDING? Import audio or video and get the same transcript. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in • No servers, no upload • Delete means gone Made for anyone who cares about privacy. Lawyers, journalists and researchers use it, and so can anyone who'd rather keep a conversation their own. Works best on iPhone 12 or later. Titles and summaries need Apple Intelligence.

Screenshots

Countdown #3 screens
Interview4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown # at none against Interview's 1. Countdown # also leads on ratings volume (45 vs 8) and device support (3 vs 1). Interview's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, 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. Interview sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown # asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Interview holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown # has 45 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Countdown #'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Interview's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown # ships an update every 9 days, Interview weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Countdown # versus Interview: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown #Interview
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (45 ratings)4.9 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings45 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKhang LeProjek J

Customer experience

Countdown #

All ratings45 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

Interview

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Countdown #

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Interview

One-time1
  • Interview Unlock$19.99

Questions

Is Countdown # free?
Countdown # is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Interview free?
Interview is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown # or Interview?
Interview is rated higher. Countdown # averages 4.6 out of 5 from 45 ratings, while Interview averages 4.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Countdown # or Interview have ads?
Neither Countdown # nor Interview shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown # or Interview?
Countdown # ships an update every 9 days, and Interview weekly. Most recently, Countdown # was updated on November 3, 2026 and Interview on November 1, 2026.

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