Comparison

Countdown vs AchvLog|Visualize Calendar

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 personal goals, habits, and important dates with customizable widgets. Supports counting up and down, recurring events, and synchronization across Apple devices. Offers detailed progress visualization and notifications to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Apple Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Detailed progress visualization dashboard
  • Customizable colors, icons, and fonts
  • Notifications for key dates and streaks
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

AchvLog|Visualize Calendar

This app helps you visualize your daily progress towards goals with a simple, accomplishment-focused design. Track your habits, view monthly and yearly achievements, and stay motivated with a clear overview of your efforts.

Highlights
  • Single-tap daily "done" recording
  • Monthly/yearly accomplishment calendar
  • Achievement percentage tracking
  • Multiple goal creation
  • Summary calendar for combined goals
  • Summary Calendar widget
Features
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This application visualizes your daily "done" in the simplest design. This app gives you a sense of accomplishment at a glance and promotes motivation and continuity. If you find it frustrating to poke a hole in your blue-tinted annual calendar, your habit is as good as succeeded! ### App Features Record your daily "done" with a single tap. Look back at your record of accomplishments with the monthly/yearly calendar. You can also check the percentage of achievement for each month/year. You can create multiple goals. You can create multiple goals. You can also use the "Summery Calendar" to combine multiple goals into a single annual calendar. Widget function of Summery Calendar. ### Recommended for people who want to People who want to visualize their efforts and continuity People who want to manage their habits to become their ideal self People who want to make a habit in order to have self-confidence Want to make a habit to have confidence in myself. Want to feel a sense of accomplishment. Want to raise my self-esteem. Want to maintain my motivation. Want to work hard every day to build up my habits. Want to keep motivated Want to check the status of my efforts easily. Want to keep my self-motivation. Want to clarify my daily tasks and to-do list. Want an application with a simple design. ### For these kinds of goal management Diet, fitness, health care, exercise, training, muscle training, workout, HIIT, abs, butt training, leg slimming, walking, jogging, running, walking Dietary restriction, fasting, fasting, carbohydrate restriction, vegetable inoculation, water intake, weight record, body shape record Flexibility, stretching, massage, skin care, moisturizing, supplement inoculation Hair care, nail care, fashion, makeup, cosmetics Work, qualifications, reading, studying, homework, assignments, tests, preparation, review, exams, English vocabulary, memorization, practice, club activities Gathering information, going to bed early, getting up early, correcting posture, saving money, job hunting, diary, hobbies, musical instruments Housework, cooking, tidying up, decluttering, cleaning, laundry, quitting drinking, smoking, meditation, mindfulness, brushing teeth, showering, bathing, stabilizing daily rhythm ### Last but not least We would be honored if this app could contribute to your goal continuation and habit formation. We are also looking forward to hearing from our users to make the app experience even better. We will definitely take a look at the feedback we receive. Thank you in advance. Developer X Account: @ry__ios

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
AchvLog|Visualize Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against AchvLog|Visualize Calendar's shown. Countdown also leads on ratings volume (3.1K vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days). AchvLog|Visualize Calendar's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and AchvLog|Visualize Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AchvLog|Visualize Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of AchvLog|Visualize Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 4 days, AchvLog|Visualize Calendar every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Countdown versus AchvLog|Visualize Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownAchvLog|Visualize Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.1K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkeinois OUryuji fukuda

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings3,140 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews635 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative12.3%

AchvLog|Visualize Calendar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 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

AchvLog|Visualize Calendar

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
1 purchases

AchvLog|Visualize Calendar

One-time1
  • RemoveAds$0.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AchvLog|Visualize Calendar free?
AchvLog|Visualize Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or AchvLog|Visualize Calendar?
AchvLog|Visualize Calendar is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3.1K ratings, while AchvLog|Visualize Calendar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Countdown or AchvLog|Visualize Calendar have ads?
AchvLog|Visualize Calendar shows ads; Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or AchvLog|Visualize Calendar?
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, and AchvLog|Visualize Calendar every 11 days. Most recently, Countdown was updated on October 30, 2026 and AchvLog|Visualize Calendar on October 27, 2026.

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