Countdown vs Days Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Track important dates and count down to special events or count the days since a significant moment. Receive timely notifications and visualize your progress with beautiful counters. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with iCloud syncing across devices.
- Ad-free experience
- Home screen widgets
- Light and dark mode support
- Count in days, weeks, months, hours, minutes
- iCloud device syncing
- Customizable event sorting
- Event notifications
- Shareable live counters
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Countdown will help you to count down the days until a special event or, count from the days since an important moment in your life. You'll receive notifications when it's time. Countdown to birthdays, holidays, an upcoming vacation, weddings, the New Year, parties, sporting events, concerts, and more. features: - No advertisements - Add your events as widgets to your iOS home screen - Support for light and dark mode - Count with days, weeks, months, hours, minutes - Sync with all your devices from iCloud - Sort events by name or date, ascending or descending - Sort by repeating and one-time events - Receive notifications when it's time - Beautiful fullscreen live counter - Share the image with live counter with friends and family - No third-party tracking or analytics services are used. No personal data is shared with anyone. - Default library with beautiful pictures to use for your events
Days Countdown
Track important dates and events with a customizable countdown. Set reminders for specific days before an event and share your countdowns with others. The app allows for recurring events and multiple countdowns.
- Unlimited event creation
- Countdown to or from a date
- Repeat events weekly, monthly, yearly
- Customizable event reminders
- Share countdowns with friends
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Days Countdown, Countdown to your favorite events and important dates! Features: - Create as many events as you'd like - Countdown until or countdown from a date - Repeat an event for week, month, year - Get notified on the day of the event, you can receive reminders 1 day before or 3 days before the event. - Share your countdowns with friends and family
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against Days Countdown's shown. Countdown also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Days Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 69 respectively.
Countdown ships an update monthly, Days Countdown every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Days Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better | 4.6 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 76.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 69 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Discoveruapps v.o.f. | 云云 唐 |
Customer experience
Countdown
Days Countdown
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown+$1.99
Days Countdown
- Pro Version$0.99
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