Countdown vs Final Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Final Countdown
Track upcoming events with beautiful live countdowns and count-ups. Customize your events with themes, categories, and reminders. Sync across devices and import from your calendar.
- Live countdowns and count-ups
- Customizable themes and categories
- Repeatable events (weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Event reminders
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- iCloud sync
- Calendar import
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Count down to the moments that matter, and count up the ones you want to remember. Final Countdown turns any date into a beautiful live countdown: birthdays, trips, weddings, deadlines, anniversaries… or the days since something happened. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Live countdowns to the second, shown as rings or bars, with years, months, days, hours and minutes. • Count-up mode: see how long it has been since a special date. • 8 colour themes and 6 categories to make every event your own. • Repeat weekly, monthly or yearly: birthdays and anniversaries come back by themselves. • Reminders when the time arrives, or earlier: from 15 minutes up to a month before. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • iCloud sync across your iPhone and iPad, plus an Apple TV app (read-only) that shows your countdowns on the big screen as numbers, rings or bars. • Smart cards: with years or months to go you see just the two units that matter, and the seconds appear when it gets close. • Search, sort by date or name, and undo any delete or archive. • Import events from your Calendar and share any countdown as an image. • Made for iPhone and iPad, with Dark Mode and VoiceOver support. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads and no tracking. Your countdowns live on your device and in your own iCloud. FREE AND PRO Create up to 3 countdowns for free. Unlock Pro once, with no subscription, for unlimited countdowns. Widgets, themes, iCloud sync and the Apple TV app are free for everyone. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Countdown at 4.7 against Final Countdown's 2.3. Countdown also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 3). 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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Final Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, Final Countdown every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Final Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.2K ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | keinois OU | Roberto Martín López |
Customer experience
Countdown
Final Countdown
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
Final Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
- Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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- Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
- Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$49.99
- Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99
Final Countdown
- Final-Countdown-pro$0.99
Questions
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