Countdown Widget Timer vs Kidgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Widget Timer
Easily track important dates and events with a customizable countdown timer. Set reminders for birthdays, holidays, or personal goals, and view remaining time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds directly on your home screen.
- Unlimited event timers
- Customizable backgrounds and colors
- Home screen widget display
- Flexible notification settings
- Annual recurrence options
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It's time to get acquainted with a cool countdown timer that will remind you of important events and dates! Birthdays of friends and relatives, a month without sweets, training at a strictly allocated time, approaching New Year and Valentine's Day - now you will not forget anything, you will have time everywhere and prepare for important events in advance! The app allows you to create a countdown clock that will show how much time in days, hours, minutes and seconds is left until the desired event. App Features: - Create timers in unlimited quantities, of any duration, whether it's 9 months of pregnancy or 2 weeks before your long-awaited vacation; - Pick up ready-made backgrounds, different colors, or place your own photos on the event screen; - Place the widget anywhere on your Iphone home screen so you can count down important dates at all times; - Receive notifications when an event is nearing completion by setting flexible settings; - Set annual recurrences and more. Legal information Privacy Policy: https://appboxgroup.com/countdown/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://appboxgroup.com/countdown/terms.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Kidgets
Create personalized home screen widgets to track important dates and information. Choose from beautiful templates or customize your own to display ages, countdowns to events, and even photos.
- Customizable age widgets
- Event countdowns
- Kid's school/sport tracking
- Photo widgets
- Curated templates
- User-friendly interface
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Kidgets lets you customize your home screen with beautiful widgets. Start with our gorgeously curated templates to keep track of things like ages, your child's information about school or sport, countdown to events like anniversaries, birthdays, trips, and holidays. From there you can customize them to fit your unique style. Unlike other widget apps, Kidgets is easy to use and focuses on curating only the best widgets for you. • Keep track of your age • Keep track of your kid's ages • Keep track of your kid's school and sports information • Countdown to upcoming events like birthdays, holidays and vacations. • Keep track of your pregnancy • Add photos of your friends, family or pets Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/41220274
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Kidgets at none against Countdown Widget Timer's shown. Kidgets also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 43%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Countdown Widget Timer's advantage is ratings volume (484 vs 19) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, 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. Countdown Widget Timer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Kidgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kidgets holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget Timer has 484 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Countdown Widget Timer's written reviews are positive against 75% of Kidgets's.
Countdown Widget Timer ships an update every 6 weeks, Kidgets every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Widget Timer | Kidgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (484 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 484 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Box | Tinybyte Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Countdown Widget Timer
Kidgets
Bugs and requests
Countdown Widget Timer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Widgets not showing up on home screen
- Purchased features not working as expected
- App crashing after updates
- Countdown dates not accurate
Requested features
4 requests- Add repeat weekly/monthly option
- Allow more than one countdown for free
- Add option to show weeks in widget
- Improve widget customization
Kidgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Widget Timer
- Full access for one week$3.997 Days
- Full access for one month$6.491 Month
- Full access for three months$11.993 Months
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- Full access for one year7 Days trial$13.491 Year
- Lifetime Full Access$7.99
- Premium access forever$7.99
- Access to premium Lifetimeme$7.99
Kidgets
- Kidgets Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Kidgets Pro Annual3 Days trial$4.991 Year
Questions
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