Countdown # vs TimeColorCue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Event countdowns
- Customizable widgets
- Event sorting
- Reminders and alerts
- Clean UI/UX design
- Icon customization
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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.
TimeColorCue
This app provides a flexible visual multi-stage timer with customizable colors and reminders for each stage. It offers various display modes and is designed to help users stay focused and on track during work, fitness, or daily routines.
- Multi-stage visual timer
- Customizable stage colors and reminders
- Multiple display modes (Standard, Minimal, Gradient, Ring)
- Optional custom backgrounds
- Sound and vibration reminders
- Local-first design, no account needed
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TimeColorCue is a clear, flexible visual multi-stage timer. Create a scenario, set duration, color and reminder text for each stage, then start a focused, eye‑catching full‑screen countdown. Use cases: • Focus work & Pomodoro sessions • Fitness, stretching & interval training • Meditation and breathing exercises • Cooking and daily routines • Presentations, rehearsals & classroom activities Core features: • Four display modes: Standard, Minimal, Gradient, Ring • Freely combine countdown timer, reminder text and progress indicator • Stage colors with smooth color transitions • Sound, vibration, stage change and advance reminders • Optional custom backgrounds for scenarios • Local-first design, no account sign-up required • Supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French and Italian TimeColorCue helps you know your current task and next step at a glance, reduce distractions and stay on track. Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown # at none against TimeColorCue's 1. Countdown # also leads on ratings volume (45 vs 1). TimeColorCue's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. TimeColorCue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown # asks for nothing beyond the download.
TimeColorCue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown # has 45 ratings behind it against 1, 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 TimeColorCue's.
Countdown # ships an update every 9 days, TimeColorCue every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown # | TimeColorCue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khang Le | 帅 王 |
Customer experience
Countdown #
TimeColorCue
In-app purchases
Countdown #
No in-app purchases
TimeColorCue
- Lifetime Premium$4.99







