Phantom Countdown vs Reading100
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phantom Countdown
This free utility app helps fans of a popular JRPG series track upcoming events. Create and customize multiple countdowns, display them on your home screen with widgets, and choose from built-in or custom themes. Countdowns update daily, offering flexible tracking by date, number of days, or unknown dates.
- Multiple countdown creation
- Home screen widgets
- Customizable themes
- Automatic daily updates
- Flexible date tracking
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Wake up, get up, get out there! For all the Phantom Thieves, Investigation Team members, and SEES fighters, prepare for your next event with Phantom Countdown! Phantom Countdown is a free app themed after everyone's favorite JRPG series, Persona. Features include: - Create and manage multiple Countdowns! - Display the Countdowns on your Home Screen with Widgets! - Style your Countdowns using baked in themes or your own themes! - Countdowns automatically update in the list and on your Widgets every new Calendar day! - Track Countdowns using a specific Date, a number of days until the event occurs, or an unknown date! Download today and begin counting down with style! Persona and all associated trademarks are properties of ATLUS and not of my own creation.
Reading100
Convert websites into image books for private collection. Developers can inspect HTML and practice regex for extracting website content.
- Convert websites to image books
- Save image books to personal collection
- Inspect website HTML
- Extract HTML using regular expressions
- Practice regex skills
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This app lets you easily convert supported websites into image books and save them to your personal collection for private use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Reading100 at none against Phantom Countdown's 5. Reading100 also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Phantom Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (276 vs 19). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Phantom Countdown sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Reading100 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Phantom Countdown against 4.6 for Reading100. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phantom Countdown has 276 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Phantom Countdown's written reviews are positive against 80% of Reading100's.
Phantom Countdown ships an update every 2 months, Reading100 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phantom Countdown | Reading100 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (276 ratings) | 4.6 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 276 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Matthew Sinex | Gentouch Studios Company Limited |
Customer experience
Phantom Countdown
Reading100
Bugs and requests
Phantom Countdown
Reported bugs
4 issues- Countdowns disappearing or not saving
- Widgets not displaying properly
- App freezing when changing notification settings
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add countdown to lock screen
- Integrate with calendar app
- Ability to set custom countdown sounds
- Automatic countdown rotation
- More detailed Persona-themed design
Reading100
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Phantom Countdown
- Level 1 Tip$0.99
- Level 5 Tip$2.99
- Level 25 Tip$9.99
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- Level 50 Tip$24.99
- Level 99 Tip$49.99
Reading100
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Phantom Countdown free?
Is Reading100 free?
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Do Phantom Countdown or Reading100 have ads?
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