Comparison

Countdown vs Point in time

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

Head to head
About

Countdown

Visually track important dates and goals with customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set up countdowns and count-ups for personal milestones, habits, or deadlines. Sync across devices and receive timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurrent event tracking
  • Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Customizable designs and templates
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Notifications for key dates
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

About

Point in time

This utility app helps you track significant moments in time. It can count up from past events or count down to future ones, with optional notifications. Display options include dynamic island, live activities, and widgets.

Highlights
  • Count up from past events
  • Countdown to future events
  • Event notifications
  • Dynamic Island integration
  • Live Activity display
  • Home and Lock screen widgets
Features
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Track a single point in time. Setting the date/time to the past will count upwards to show you the time since the event has occurred. Setting the date/time to the future will countdown until the event. You will receive a notification at the point of the event (if permissions are granted). You can track point in time from the: - Dynamic island (on supported devices) - Live activity on the lock screen - Lock screen widgets - Home screen widgets Examples: - Countdown until Christmas - Time since you called mum - How long left until your birthday - How long since you've planted those seedlings - Months left until that big vacation - Years since you've touched a cigarette - Days left until the next Genshin Impact release - Days since you've had a cuddle - How long until the next Doctor Who episode - How long you've been alive for This app is deliberately minimalistic to allow you to only track just a single moment in time, your most important moment.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Point in time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Point in time at none against Countdown's 18. Point in time also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (3.1K vs 5) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, ads 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. Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Point in time asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3.1K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Point in time's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Countdown versus Point in time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownPoint in time
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better4.4 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews81.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.1K — better5
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size183 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkeinois OUAn Trinh

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings3,053 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews613 reviews
Positive81.9%
Neutral5.5%
Negative12.6%

Point in time

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

Point in time

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions10
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99
None

Point in time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Point in time free?
Point in time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Point in time?
Countdown is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.1K ratings, while Point in time averages 4.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Countdown or Point in time have ads?
Neither Countdown nor Point in time shows ads.

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