Dot Countdown vs Pinning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dot Countdown
Easily track upcoming and past events with personalized countdown timers. Organize important dates like birthdays, holidays, and trips with a visually appealing dot-timeline layout and customizable widgets. Receive smart reminders to never miss a moment.
- Personalized event countdowns
- Dot-timeline layout
- Home & Lock Screen widgets
- Smart reminders
- Repeating events
- Cross-device sync
- Event sharing
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Dot Countdown makes it easy to track the days until (or since) your most important events. Whether it’s a birthday, holiday, wedding, concert, exam, trip or big life moment, create beautiful countdown timers that feel personal, organized and exciting. Dot Countdown combines a unique dot timeline layout with powerful event tools, widgets and smart reminders so you never lose track of what matters. CREATE COUNTDOWNS FOR ANY EVENT Track days until birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, weddings, vacations, exams, sports events, retirement, baby due dates, launch days and more. You can also count up from past events and milestones. DOT TIMELINE DESIGN Your events are displayed in a clean, colorful timeline layout that makes upcoming and past dates easy to scan at a glance. CUSTOMIZE WITH THEMES & PHOTOS Choose from vibrant color palettes and themes, or add your own photos to create countdowns that feel truly personal. HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Add stylish countdown widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Keep your most important dates visible with multiple layout options and enhanced premium styles. SMART REMINDERS Set notifications for your events so you’re reminded before the big day arrives. Never forget an important date again. REPEATING EVENTS Create custom repeating countdowns daily, weekly, monthly or yearly for birthdays, bills, fitness goals and recurring occasions. FILTER & ORGANIZE Add categories like birthdays, travel, work or personal to keep your events tidy and easy to manage. MAP LOCATIONS Attach locations to your events and keep everything organized in one place. SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Use Dot Countdown on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Your events stay updated everywhere with seamless sync. SHARE WITH FRIENDS Send countdowns to friends and family so you can track important events together. UNLOCK ACHIEVEMENTS Collect fun achievements as you create and track events throughout the year. Whether you’re tracking a vacation countdown, wedding countdown, birthday reminder or exam timer, Dot Countdown keeps your most important dates front and centre. Simple. Colorful. Designed to make waiting more exciting. Terms: https://sleepyboystudios.com/terms
Pinning
Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.
- Event countdown and count-up
- Calendar event syncing
- Birthday and anniversary tracking
- Event organization with notebooks
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- iCloud collaboration
- Recurring event notifications
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Pinning is a more powerful countdown app and a simple calendar viewer. It’s a tool to help you record life stories or track project milestones. It’s easy to create events and organize them with notebooks. Pinning also comes with built-in lists for birthdays and anniversaries. Events will be shown in timeline with self-selected icons or emojis. You can put the most important events on Home Screen or Lock Screen with beautiful widgets. Pinning supports iCloud collaboration so that you can easily share important events with family and friends. ## Features - Event countdown and count-up. - Sync upcoming calendar events and scheduled reminders. - Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries. - Organize with notebooks and tags. - Create recurring events and receive notifications. - Home Screen widgets for single event and event timeline. Lock Screen widgets for the most important events. - iCloud collaboration. - Siri Shortcuts support. - Save single event or list of events as images. - Import birthdays from birthday calendar. - Create events from calendars. Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy Terms of Services: https://pinning.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pinning at 4.7 against Dot Countdown's 3.0. Pinning also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (51 vs 1). Dot Countdown's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Dot Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pinning holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinning has 51 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Dot Countdown's written reviews are positive against 75% of Pinning's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dot Countdown ships an update every 3 months, Pinning every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dot Countdown | Pinning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sleepy Boy Studios Ltd | Anybox LTD |
Customer experience
Dot Countdown
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In-app purchases
Dot Countdown
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual1 Year trial$19.991 Year
- Support the app$2.99
Pinning
- Monthly$1.491 Month
- Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
- Yearly$11.991 Year
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- Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
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