Phantom Countdown vs Sandypad
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.
Sandypad
This app is a specialized timer designed for speedrunning. It allows users to set up multiple games and categories, customize timer precision, and display key run statistics. Sync times across devices and analyze past runs with an intuitive interface.
- Multiple game and category setup
- Adjustable timer precision
- Countdown start option
- Display run statistics (sum of best, best possible)
- Segment time tracking
- iCloud synchronization
- Home screen widgets
- Past run analysis
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Sandypad is a speedrun timer. The app was made for iOS, taking advantage of the platform technologies. Add one or more games, and for each of them, add as many categories as you’d like. Adjust the timer by defining the precision (seconds, tenths, hundreths or thousandths). It is also possible to set a countdown to adjust the start of the run. Set which information are displayed during a run like the sum of best or the best possible time. For each category, show the segments and their time, and modify them with an intuitive user interface. Sync your times on all your devices using iCloud. Take advantage of widgets which allow you to quickly access the last runned games and open them right from the home screen. The app saves all you runs times, allowing you to come back to and analyse any previous run. On iPad, take advantage of keyboard shortcuts to manage your run without even touching the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Phantom Countdown at every 2 months against Sandypad's every 5 months. Phantom Countdown also leads on ratings volume (278 vs 24). Sandypad's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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 and Sandypad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Phantom Countdown against 4.6 for Sandypad. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phantom Countdown has 278 ratings behind it against 24, 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 88% of Sandypad's.
Phantom Countdown ships an update every 2 months, Sandypad every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Phantom Countdown | Sandypad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (278 ratings) | 4.6 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 278 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Sinex | Vivien BERNARD |
Customer experience
Phantom Countdown
Sandypad
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
Sandypad
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
Sandypad
- Gift Lootbox™$1.99
Questions
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