Countdown vs Helen's Intervals Timers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Helen's Intervals Timers
Create custom sequences of timers for various activities like workouts or cooking. The app notifies you with a selected chime, even when your device is on silent mode. It's designed for efficient time management across multiple intervals.
- Sequential timer sequences
- User-selected chimes
- Silent mode compatibility
- Activity-specific timer setup
- Interval pausing
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This app allows you to set up a sequence of timers that run sequencially, with a pause between them, and user selected chime when complete. Use this for any activity, like exercising, to let you know when a time is reached and go to the next one. It will work even if your iPhone or iPad is on silence mode. You can also set up a series of timers that run in parallel, for people who have a lot going on at the same time and want to keep track of time intervals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Countdown at Free against Helen's Intervals Timers's $0.99. Countdown also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 1). Helen's Intervals Timers's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On 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
Countdown is free to download; Helen's Intervals Timers costs $0.99 up front. Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Helen's Intervals Timers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. 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.
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, Helen's Intervals Timers fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Helen's Intervals Timers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | keinois OU | Drew Baden |
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
Helen's Intervals Timers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- 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
- 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
Helen's Intervals Timers
No in-app purchases
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