Comparison

Countdown vs Focusti

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

Focusti

This timer helps you manage work and rest intervals to maintain focus and prevent burnout. It offers customizable work/rest durations, review tools, and cross-platform data synchronization. Enjoy white noise and alert sounds for an optimized work environment.

Highlights
  • Customizable Pomodoro timer
  • Work and rest reminders
  • Work time statistics
  • Desktop and lock screen widgets
  • Cross-platform data sync
  • White noise and alert sounds
Features
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Are you often busy at work and exhausted at the end of the day? Are you often too focused on work and forget to take a break? Try this timer designed for concentration! It can help you arrange the interval between work and rest, so that you can maintain efficient work while not forgetting to take a break. The main function: Pomodoro - Regular rest reminder - Scheduled work reminders - Customize rest duration and working duration to suit your work habits Review your work - Customized labels for clear review - Working time statistics to help you review the work of the day and month Widget - Desktop widgets - Lock screen widget - Support small plug-ins for both MAC and iOS platforms Data synchronization - iOS、WatchOS and macOS platforms are synchronized, so you can still work without your phone - iCloud auto backup data is more secure White noise and alert sounds - Play white noise for work - Multiple optional reminder sounds Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.silentstar.com.cn/private/en

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Focusti4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown at 82% against Focusti's 67%. 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. Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Focusti sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update weekly, Focusti fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Countdown versus Focusti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownFocusti
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.9% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3.1K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size183 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkeinois OU振宇 陈

Customer experience

Countdown

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

Focusti

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%

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

Focusti

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
5 purchases

Focusti

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly VIP$0.991 Month
  • Quarter VIP$2.993 Months
  • Half year VIP$3.996 Months
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  • Yearly VIP$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime VIP$14.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Focusti free?
Focusti is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown or Focusti have ads?
Neither Countdown nor Focusti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Focusti?
Countdown ships an update weekly, and Focusti fortnightly. Most recently, Countdown was updated on October 15, 2026 and Focusti on September 26, 2026.

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