Comparison

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker

Create dynamic bullet screen displays with customizable text, fonts, and animations. Also, track important dates with a full-screen countdown and count-up timer. Perfect for events, presentations, or personal reminders.

Highlights
  • Multiple bullet screen texts
  • Full-screen countdowns
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Count-up timer function
  • Animation effects
  • Event and deadline tracking
Features
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Transform your mobile phone into a dynamic bullet screen display with Barrage! This innovative software allows you to easily add and manage multiple bullet screen texts, making it perfect for live events, presentations, or just for fun. With Barrage, you can play subtitles through your mobile phone anytime and anywhere, ensuring your messages are always seen. Get inspired and customize your bullet screens with a wide variety of text fonts, colors, and animation effects. Barrage allows you to combine different styles to create the perfect display that suits your needs. -------Key Features:------- --Add and manage multiple bullet screen texts --Play subtitles on your mobile phone anytime, anywhere --Customize with various text fonts, colors, and animation effects --Create dynamic and engaging displays for events and presentations --Intuitive interface for easy adjustments and previews Never miss an important moment with Timer, the versatile countdown and count-up tool for your mobile phone. By specifying a target date, you can activate the countdown function and display it in full screen, making it perfect for tracking events, deadlines, and special occasions. The full-screen display ensures that the countdown is always visible so you stay on top of your schedule. If you don't have a specific date in mind, Timer also allows you to count up from a starting point. The flexible design of Timer means you can use it for a wide range of purposes, from personal goals to professional projects. -------Key Features:------- --Set a target date for countdowns --Display countdowns in full screen --Use the start button for count-ups --Track events, deadlines, and special occasions --User-friendly interface for easy setup and monitoring Privacy Policy: https://zipoapps.com/mobilebarrageios/privacy/ Terms and Conditions: https://zipoapps.com/mobilebarrageios/terms/

About

Countdown

Visually track important dates and goals with customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set up countdowns and count-ups for personal milestones, habits, or deadlines. Sync across devices and receive timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurrent event tracking
  • Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Customizable designs and templates
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Notifications for key dates
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against Countdown Timer & Banner Maker's shown. Countdown also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 4). Countdown Timer & Banner Maker's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown Timer & Banner Maker sells 19 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3.1K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker ships an update every 3 months, Countdown weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Countdown Timer & Banner Maker versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown Timer & Banner MakerCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (3.1K ratings)
Positive reviews—81.6% of reviews
Number of ratings43.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB183 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZipo Apps Ltd.keinois OU

Customer experience

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Countdown

All ratings3,053 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews604 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative12.7%

Bugs and requests

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

In-app purchases

19 purchases

Countdown Timer & Banner Maker

Subscriptions17
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$2.997 Days
Show 14 more
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Premium features3 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Premium features3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Premium features3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Premium features3 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Unlimited access3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Unlimited add timingFree
  • Remove Ads$0.99
14 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions10
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
Show 7 more
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
Show 1 more
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is Countdown Timer & Banner Maker free?
Countdown Timer & Banner Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown Timer & Banner Maker or Countdown?
Countdown Timer & Banner Maker is rated higher. Countdown Timer & Banner Maker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Countdown averages 4.7 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Countdown Timer & Banner Maker or Countdown have ads?
Countdown Timer & Banner Maker shows ads; Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Timer & Banner Maker or Countdown?
Countdown Timer & Banner Maker ships an update every 3 months, and Countdown weekly. Most recently, Countdown Timer & Banner Maker was updated on June 11, 2026 and Countdown on September 30, 2026.

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