Comparison

Surely vs Countdown Widget Go

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

Head to head
About

Surely

This app offers a streamlined approach to task management, focusing on completion rather than complex organization. It provides essential actions like completing, deleting, or deferring tasks, intentionally omitting features that might encourage procrastination.

Highlights
  • Complete tasks
  • Delete tasks
  • Defer tasks
  • Minimalist interface
  • Focus on task completion
Features
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Most todo apps give you lots of features to organize your todos. But you don't want to be spending time organizing your todos: you want to be completing them. Surely is a focused todo app giving you just the features you need to get your todos done. There are only three things you can do with a todo: * Complete it * Delete it * Defer it Here are all the features Surely doesn't have because they encourage you to keep more todos instead of completing them: * Separate defer dates and due dates * Complex ways of searching for todos * Separate lists of todos so you aren't looking at all of them at once * Bulk defer features. It should not be painless to defer many todos to the future; it should be painful to work with multiple todos so that you complete or delete them Surely is available for free on both iOS and the web.

About

Countdown Widget Go

Features
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Countdown shows you exactly how long until the things you care about, or how long it's been since. Make one for a birthday, a trip, an anniversary, an exam, your last day at work, or just New Year. It sits on your Home Screen and your Lock Screen so you see it every time you pick up your phone. Every countdown is yours to customize. Pick an emoji, set a color or let it adapt to light and dark mode, drop in your own photo as the background, and tag it however you like. Set it as an all-day event or count down to the minute. Repeating events roll forward on their own, and the repeats are smart: "last Friday of the month" stays the last Friday instead of drifting to a fixed date. The widgets are the point for a lot of people. Single-event widgets come in four styles — a big number, a progress ring, a progress bar, or number tiles — for the Home Screen, plus circular, rectangular, and inline versions for the Lock Screen. Track several events at once with the medium and large widgets. Empty slots fill in with whatever's coming up next, and anything you pin jumps to the front. What you get: - Count down to a future date or up from a past one - Home Screen widgets in four styles, plus Lock Screen widgets - Your own photos as widget backgrounds - Smart repeats: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, including patterns like "2nd Tuesday" that don't drift - Emoji, custom colors, and tags - Pin your favorites and reorder by hand - Reminders the day before, a week before, or when the day arrives - Choose which units you see, from years down to seconds - Count only the days that matter by skipping weekends or any weekday you pick - Sort by soonest, latest, name, or date added - Works in nine languages Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no servers, no tracking. The app is free, has no ads, and nothing is locked behind a purchase.

Screenshots

Surely4 screens
Countdown Widget Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Surely at 3 against Countdown Widget Go's 1. Surely also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.2). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Surely ships an update every 6 weeks, Countdown Widget Go monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Surely versus Countdown Widget Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurelyCountdown Widget Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua JusticeWanja Hemmerich

In-app purchases

None

Surely

No in-app purchases

None

Countdown Widget Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Surely free?
Surely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget Go free?
Countdown Widget Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Surely or Countdown Widget Go have ads?
Neither Surely nor Countdown Widget Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Surely or Countdown Widget Go?
Surely ships an update every 6 weeks, and Countdown Widget Go monthly. Most recently, Surely was updated on June 5, 2026 and Countdown Widget Go on September 10, 2026.

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