TouchRoute vs Photo Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TouchRoute
Easily create and share custom routes by tapping on a map. Send your routes to friends or export them to popular fitness apps. View current weather conditions directly on the map.
- Tap to create routes
- Share routes with others
- Export to Garmin Connect, Strava, MapMyRun
- View weather conditions
- Save up to 3 routes
- Unlock unlimited saves via in-app purchase
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Touch Route lets you easily create and share routes. Simply tap on the map to create a route. Share your routes with others and they can share to you. Swipe left on a route to delete it. Swipe right to share it. You can send a route to others or share to other apps like Garmin Connect, Strava, and MapMyRun. On a map view, tap Weather to show/hide current conditions. Tap on the gear icon to adjust settings, get help, and send feedback. You can save up to 3 routes in the app. There is an in-app purchase to unlock unlimited saves.
Photo Countdown Widget
Create unlimited, personalized countdown widgets for your most anticipated moments. Beautifully track events with custom photo backgrounds directly on your Home Screen. Enjoy all features for free with a clean, simple design.
- Unlimited event countdowns
- Custom photo backgrounds
- Home Screen widgets
- Clean and simple design
- Free to use
- Event arrival messages
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Every widget free — Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. No ads, no account, nothing locked. Your photo, your countdown: count down to a wedding, a trip or a baby, or count the days since you quit, started a streak or saw your last concert. New widgets show your next event on their own and move on when its day has passed. They flip from "days until" to "days since" automatically. Your events and photos never leave your phone. Nothing to sync, nothing to lose in a sync. COUNTDOWN & COUNT SINCE • Count down the days to any future event • Count up from any date — perfect for sobriety, streaks and milestones • Show days, or weeks, months or years ("12 weeks, 3 days") • Switches automatically when the date passes, or lock it to always count down or always count since EVERY WIDGET, FREE • Small, medium, large and extra-large Home Screen widgets • Up Next: your next few events in one widget • Lock Screen widgets — circular, rectangular and inline • Your photo as the background — add up to 10 and the widget rotates through them • Color themes for events without a photo, including Birthday, Wedding, Trip and Holiday • Tap a widget to open its event MAKE IT YOURS • 10 ready-made looks, previewed live with your own photo • Frame your photo: drag and pinch until it fits every widget size • 8 fonts, any text color, 6 text positions and a readability slider • Photos stay visible on a Tinted or Clear Home Screen • Widgets follow the event's style, or pick a font and color for one widget alone REMINDERS & REPEATS • Repeat every year, month or week, or every few days, weeks, months or years — birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own • Reminders on the day, or 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month before, at the time you pick • Share any countdown as a square photo card SIMPLE & PRIVATE • Add an event in seconds — pick an occasion, a date and a photo • No account, no signup, no ads, no subscription • Your events stay on your device • In English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish Perfect for: • Vacations, birthdays, weddings, holidays • Sobriety tracking & addiction recovery • Fitness goals & streaks • Anniversaries & milestones • Baby due dates & retirement countdowns Free to use. If Photo Countdown earns a place on your Home Screen, the Support screen lets you leave an optional tip or a rating — that's what keeps it free. Nothing is ever locked.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Photo Countdown Widget at none against TouchRoute's 1. Photo Countdown Widget also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). TouchRoute's advantage is iOS requirement (15 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. TouchRoute sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Photo Countdown Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Photo Countdown Widget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
TouchRoute ships an update every 4 months, Photo Countdown Widget every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TouchRoute | Photo Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EPage, Inc. | Shahriar Ahmed |
Customer experience
TouchRoute
Photo Countdown Widget
In-app purchases
TouchRoute
- Unlimited Routes$4.99
Photo Countdown Widget
No in-app purchases
Questions
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