Countdown Buddy vs Blur Group Faces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Buddy
Create personalized countdown and count-up widgets for your home and lock screens. Visually track important dates like birthdays, vacations, or deadlines with custom designs, colors, and photos. Stay motivated and make waiting more exciting.
- Personalized countdown widgets
- Count-up widgets
- Home screen and lock screen support
- Customizable designs
- Background color options
- Photo integration
- Font selection
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EVERYTHING YOU ARE WAITING FOR - IN A WIDGET Design your own personalized countdown or count-up widgets for your home screen & lock screen. Countdown Widget is a super fun way to track the days until a momentous occasion such as: - Your birthday, or another special someone’s birthday - A long-awaited vacation - Back to school - Upcoming elections - A returning season of your favorite TV series - A favorite yearly tech event - A new video game is up for preorder Or any other future event! Countdown Widget makes waiting for something exciting even more thrilling by giving you a cool and colorful visual reminder on your home screen. Use it to count down to a big event, to mark the end of something less fun, or to keep track of work deadlines (weekend exclusion is now possible!) - it's a super fun way to stay on top of things! COUNT UP Create a count-up widget to mark a significant moment in time and track the duration since it occurred. CREATE A PERSONALIZED COUNTDOWN WIDGET Create a Widget with your custom design in a matter of seconds. You can choose from 11 Countdown styles (we are already working on more) and make them your own by adding your personal touch: - Change background colors. - Use photos from your phone Photo Library or from our preset gallery. - Choose from a curated list of fonts that go well with each specific style. - Each Widget you make will automatically be available in small or medium sizes. - Change the design anytime later. WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK As a small team, we are excited to have our first app on the App Store. We value your feedback and would love to hear from you if you have any questions, suggestions, or anything else you think we should know. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us at - hi@taptics.co. Note: The Free version of the app includes one countdown widget with the basic design.
Blur Group Faces
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Blur Group Faces finds the faces in your photos and hides them behind a blur, a mosaic, a solid cover or an emoji. Everything happens on your iPhone: nothing is uploaded anywhere and the original stays untouched. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Automatic face detection, with every area you can switch on or off one by one. • Manual areas: draw your own box over plates, documents or details the detector misses. • Four styles: blur, mosaic, solid or emoji, in an oval or rectangle shape. • Irreversible by design: each face is erased before the effect is applied, so no one can reconstruct it from the copy. • Location and metadata are removed from every copy you save or share. • Live result preview: press and hold to compare with the original. • Share directly, or invert the selection to blur everyone except one person. • Saves a copy to your Photos library: the original is never modified. • An in-app collection of the protected photos you have already saved. PRIVACY, NOT PROMISES No backend, no account, no third-party SDKs. Detection uses Apple's Vision and processing uses Core Image, both on device. Photos are never sent to servers or cloud services, and the app collects no analytics and shows no ads.
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Verdict
Countdown Buddy and Blur Group Faces are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 Buddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Blur Group Faces sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Countdown Buddy | Blur Group Faces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (26K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Taptics Ltd. | NORIS TALABAN |
Bugs and requests
Countdown Buddy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets disappearing or not working after updates
- Countdown timers not updating correctly
- Inability to add new widgets or countdowns
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to display multiple countdowns at once
- Implement automatic countdown reset/repeat functionality
- Allow custom countdown units (e.g., weeks, business days)
- Improve widget handling and update reliability
Blur Group Faces
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Buddy
- Countdown +$3.59
Blur Group Faces
- Blur Group Faces Pro$2.991 Month
Questions
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