Comparison

Combo Widget vs CountDaysNow

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

Head to head
About

Combo Widget

Organize your home screen with a single widget that combines multiple functionalities. Display calendar, battery, steps, reminders, sticky notes, and call options all in one place. Integrate with health data to track your fitness progress.

Highlights
  • Combined functionality widgets
  • Health data integration (steps, distance)
  • Sticky notes
  • Calendar and time display
  • Battery level indicator
  • Call and dial shortcuts
Features
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Combo Widget lets you organize your home screen by using daily life items. Normally, widgets represent unique items, whereas we represent both unique and combo items. Our idea is to represent widgets does more useful like we added the calendar, battery, steps, distance, reminder/timer, sticky notes, call/dial option in a single widget. We integrate with the health app (HealthKit) to read and track your steps data and beautifully show them in the Widget Section. We represent steps, distance & floor data in the widget.  It uses HealthKit to show today's steps, distance & floor information in the widget. What you have found in Combo Widget Health Data- Steps, Distance & Floor count widget Call, Dial, Contact widget Photo widget Calendar, date, time widget Sticky Notes widget reminder/timer widget Battery widget

About

CountDaysNow

Features
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Plan backwards from the dates that matter. Countdown Plan gives any event its own preparation steps, such as renew the passport 30 days before a trip or order the cake 7 days before a birthday, and shows what is late, due today, due in the next 7 days and done across all your events. Each step is due a set number of days before its event. Change the event date and every step moves with it; a repeating event starts each new cycle with a fresh plan. Countdown Plan is free, works on-device and needs no account. Daily Focus saves one private Since / Today / Ahead choice each day and preserves that dated trail as milestones change. No ads, no subscription, no account. One purchase unlocks everything for good. • Ahead · Today · Since CountDaysNow keeps future, current and past events in three clear views, with precise day counts and a date calculator for adding, subtracting or comparing dates. • Events, categories and archive Create and edit events, organize them into categories, search quickly and archive milestones without losing their history. • Recurrence, reminders and Calendar Set repeating events, including an optional end date, schedule reminders and import only the Calendar events you choose. • Widgets, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Put any event on Home Screen widgets in every size, including iPad Extra Large, keep a live countdown running in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, and let the Next 3 widget show your three closest dates at once. Apple Watch stays useful offline. • Milestone alerts and 15 calendars A gentle nudge arrives 7, 3 and 1 day before, on the day itself, at day 100 and on every anniversary. Any event can show a second calendar beside the Gregorian date: Chinese lunar, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Indian, Islamic, Buddhist and more. • 100 skins and share cards Browse all 100 countdown styles before unlocking them, each with its own palette and layout, then export a share card as a square, portrait or story image. • iCloud, shared countdowns and safe updates Events stay in step across your iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud, a single countdown can be shared with other CountDaysNow users and updated together, and a local snapshot is written before every update so nothing goes missing. Free The free edition supports up to 3 active events, 3 categories and 1 reminder for each event, plus one selected event widget. Archived events remain available. One-time Lifetime Pro A single Lifetime Pro purchase—never a subscription—unlocks unlimited events and categories; the complete gallery of 100 exclusive skins; advanced recurrence, reminders and calendars; every widget and the full Apple Watch experience; Badge, photo backgrounds, Face ID, iCloud and JSON backup, and high-resolution sharing. How do iCloud sync and shared countdowns work? With Lifetime Pro, optional iCloud sync keeps events and categories up to date across your devices through your private Apple CloudKit database. Share Countdown sends only the selected event’s title, note, target date, calendar system, time zone, all-day setting, recurrence, symbol and color to the CountDaysNow users you invite; reminders, categories, the Calendar source identifier, favorite and archive status, photo backgrounds and every other event remain private. Sync also carries the technical event identifier, created and updated timestamps, and conflict-resolution metadata; invitees can view and edit only the user-visible fields, not this technical metadata. The owner can stop sharing or delete the shared countdown, and participants can leave it. CountDaysNow uses no accounts, advertising, third-party analytics or tracking tools, and sends no data to developer servers. Optimized for iPhone Duo, with a two-column layout on the inner display in landscape.

Screenshots

Combo Widget4 screens
CountDaysNow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CountDaysNow at none against Combo Widget's shown. CountDaysNow also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Combo Widget's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Combo Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CountDaysNow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Combo Widget ships an update every 3 weeks, CountDaysNow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Combo Widget versus CountDaysNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCombo WidgetCountDaysNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (163 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings163 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShourob DattaGuan Feng Lai

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Combo Widget

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$1.99
1 purchases

CountDaysNow

One-time1
  • CountDaysNow Lifetime Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Combo Widget free?
Combo Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CountDaysNow free?
CountDaysNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Combo Widget or CountDaysNow have ads?
Combo Widget shows ads; CountDaysNow does not.
Which is updated more often, Combo Widget or CountDaysNow?
Combo Widget ships an update every 3 weeks, and CountDaysNow every 3 days. Most recently, Combo Widget was updated on October 15, 2026 and CountDaysNow on October 14, 2026.

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