Comparison

Countdown widget vs Countdown Widget

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Countdown widget

Create personalized countdown and count-up widgets for any event, from birthdays to holidays. Customize with various themes, icons, and your own photos. Syncs across devices and offers stylish fonts and color options.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown and count-up widgets
  • Multiple themes, styles, and app icons
  • Support for iOS Lock Screen and Standby Widgets
  • Add personal photos to widgets
  • Stylish fonts and gradient color presets
  • Watch App and iCloud sync
  • Light and Dark modes
Features
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Create Custom Countdown or Count up widget with lots of themes, styles and App Icons. Count down to your next event: Birthday, Vacation, Holiday, Thanksgiving, Party, Halloween, Christmas, and lots more in Aesthetic looks. Create Multiple widget Features Include. • iOS 26 Standby Widget. • iOS 26 LockScreen Widget & Transparent Widget. • Multiple App Icons. • Transparent Widget. • Variety of Widget Style & Theme • Watch App & iCloud sync • Count up from past events • Stylish Fonts. • Beautiful colour , gradient Presets. • Add your Own Photos. • Light & Dark modes. • Supports all size of widgets. No Ads. Add your Custom widget with ease and edit later in no time. Upcoming version will include Apple watch supports and more themes. Download Now New Countdown Widget and Enjoy!!! Offers auto-renewing unlimited-access subscription options. $9.99/Year as Annually Subscription. These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your iTune account, and your account will be charged within 24-hour to the end of the current period .Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your iTunes store after purchase.Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. Terms of use: https://motivateapps.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://motivateapps.com/privacyClean.html

About

Countdown Widget

Track important dates with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Set reminders, sync across devices, and add personal notes or photos to each event. Never lose track of your days with automatic backups and a history timeline.

Highlights
  • Multiple widget types and sizes
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Count down to or up from dates
  • Recurring event options
  • Customizable reminders
  • iCloud sync
  • Data import/export
  • Event history and timeline
Features
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A countdown that never loses your days — and never holds its four widgets back. Add the day that matters, put it on your home screen, and watch it come closer. No limit on how many you keep, and nothing between you and the number. FOUR WIDGETS, FREE • Four widgets: one countdown, the next few in a list, a spotlight, or a tile for each • Every size of all four, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Unlimited events — there is no cap, and there never will be • Count down to a date, or count up from one • Recurring events: yearly, monthly, weekly, or every few days • Reminders on the day, and as far ahead as you want • iCloud sync, with no account to make • Import from a calendar, a spreadsheet, or another countdown app — and export any time • No ads, ever COUNT DOWN TO ANYTHING A wedding countdown, a vacation or trip countdown, a birthday or an anniversary. Christmas, New Year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Exam day, graduation, retirement, a baby due date, a concert, a deadline, payday. Or count the days since a day that has already happened. YOUR DAYS, KEPT Most countdown apps lose your events at the worst moment — an update, a reinstall, a phone that died. This one takes a snapshot of everything on this device every single day, and always before anything risky. Thirty days of history, one tap to restore, and nothing ever leaves your phone. Days that have already passed are never deleted either: they collect into a timeline you can look back through, with the longest wait of each year written next to it. THE MOMENT ITSELF When a countdown reaches a milestone — a hundred days, a week, the morning of — the app opens on the number, full screen, and gives you a card worth sharing. THE BACK OF EVERY EVENT Tap an event and it turns over to a page of its own. Write a few lines, add photos, record a voice — the story of the day, kept with the day. It syncs with iCloud, goes into every backup, and shares as one picture. MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS Thirty-six ready-made events, from a birthday to a first day at work, each already set up with the right repeat and the right reminders. Two hundred drawn icons and the whole emoji keyboard. A hundred and fifty-nine full-screen backdrops — twenty-two of them photographs — a hundred and seven in Pro. COUNTDOWN PRO Pro unlocks the Pro backdrops, with a new drop every month, your own photos behind a countdown, Photo Roll — a widget that turns your event's own photos over behind the count, the Pro typefaces, the Lock Screen Live Activity, and inviting someone to count down with you. Whatever you unlock while subscribed stays yours for good — cancelling only stops the new ones arriving. Your countdowns, reminders and the four widgets work the same whether you subscribe or not. ——— Countdown Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Prices for the annual plan, which includes a 7-day free trial, and the monthly plan are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available; it does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

Countdown widget4 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown Widget at daily against Countdown widget's weekly. Countdown Widget also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Countdown widget's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 26) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Countdown Widget sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Countdown widget against 4.6 for Countdown Widget. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown widget has 1.3K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Countdown widget's written reviews are positive against 100% of Countdown Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown widget ships an update weekly, Countdown Widget daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countdown widget versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown widgetCountdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.3K ratings)4.6 (26 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better26
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmit Verma可 吴

Customer experience

Countdown widget

All ratings1,269 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.7%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews325 reviews
Positive88.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.6%

Countdown Widget

All ratings26 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Countdown widget

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Countdown widget not working on lock screen
  • Countdown based on EST instead of user's timezone

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Sync with calendars
  • Show hours, minutes, and seconds in countdown

Countdown Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Countdown widget

Subscriptions1
  • Countdown Pro.$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Countdown Pro.2 variants$8.99
  • Countdown Pro.$12.99
9 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions4
  • Countdown Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Countdown Pro Yearly · Welcome$9.991 Year
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime2 variants$14.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$19.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$20.99
Show 2 more
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$26.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Countdown widget free?
Countdown widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown widget or Countdown Widget?
Countdown Widget is rated higher. Countdown widget averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Countdown Widget averages 4.6 from 26 ratings.
Do Countdown widget or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Countdown widget nor Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown widget or Countdown Widget?
Countdown widget ships an update weekly, and Countdown Widget daily. Most recently, Countdown widget was updated on November 3, 2026 and Countdown Widget on November 1, 2026.

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