Countdown ™ vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown ™
Create custom countdown widgets for your home screen to track important events. Personalize with photos, themes, and preset designs. Receive smart reminders so you never miss a moment.
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Preset event designs
- Personalize with photos and themes
- Smart event reminders
- Easy event sharing
- Dark mode support
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The "Best Countdown Widget" allows you to add widgets and customize the home screen for your all events countdown. Here are some cool preset events that look beautiful. Forgo a clunky calendar for a sleek and beautiful countdown timer on your homescreen. It's your big days and you need it to be as magnificent as it can. A simple calendar won't do it justice and aesthetic. The count down starts today. Let's set Countdown Calendar for precious moments. Countdown Widget easy setup Just follow the simple and clear instructions to set up countdown widgets on your screen. Quick setup only matter of seconds! A few taps – your screen looks superb! Countdown Widget Maker Create a countdown widget on your home screen with your own way design. Be able to count the most important days end events every day right in front of you. Preset events packs for Countdown Calendar Hundred of countdown calendar designs will suit any event of yours. Or you can choose from a rich variety of shapes, fonts, and backgrounds to make your own countdown calendar. Countdown to events that repeat yearly, monthly or weekly. Never miss any important moments! Customize photo for your countdown event For a truly unique and sleek countdown widget for your own, use your favorite photo to setup them! Never miss your upcoming events again With countdown event reminder smart feature help you configure your countdown event and get notifications more frequently as the event approaches. Events anniversaries and precious moments will never be forgotten again. Easy sharing your precious moments Let's with each other countdown precious moments. With event sharing feature will help you spread the fun when counting down with family members, friends, colleagues and invite them to join in your countdown. COUNTDOWN WIDGET FEATURE: - Countdown setup with Dark mode. - Easy setup matter of seconds. - Hundred of Preset events available in Countdown Premium. - Personalize your event with theme modes, headings and widget style. - Set favorite photo for your event countdowns. - Add to your home screen and see countdown clock without opening the app! - Smart countdown reminder feature never miss your events. - Track as many events you want countdown. There are many moments in life that you will never want to miss, right? Let's download and each other countdown your important events now! SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS - Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. - Subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of service: https://matechmobile.org/infor/term.html Privacy policy: https://matechmobile.org/infor/privacy.html
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown at 82% against Countdown ™'s 42%. Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Countdown ™'s advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (14.1 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
Both are free to download. Countdown ™ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 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.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3K ratings behind it against 180, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Countdown ™'s written reviews are positive against 82% of Countdown's.
Countdown ™ ships an update every 4 days, Countdown every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown ™ | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (180 ratings) | 4.7 (3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.3% of reviews | 81.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 180 | 3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MatechMobile Software JSC | keinois OU |
Customer experience
Countdown ™
Countdown
Bugs and requests
Countdown ™
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
Countdown ™
- Premium Week$0.497 Days
- Premium month$1.991 Month
- Premium year$3.991 Year
- Countdown Pro lifetime$1.99
Countdown
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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- 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
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99
Questions
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