Comparison

Countdown vs Dayseek

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

Dayseek

Features
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Counting the Days? Watch Them Fill Instead! A number can count the days. It can't tell you how the waiting feels. The days ahead take on a shape that fills, warms, and closes in as they pass. No math. Just the day, getting closer. Dayseek turns every date you're waiting for into something worth looking at. Keep them together in one place, and give each one a face of its own. Some days call for quiet. Others call for loud. Find the one that fits, then make it a little more yours. However you dress it, every glance says the same thing. You're closer than you were. KEY FEATURES - Beautiful Designs: Pick the one that suits the day, then live with it - Visual Progress: It doesn't just change the number, it fills - Personalization: Adjust it to your taste - Repeating Events: Anniversaries return on their own, and the days since keep counting - Widgets: On the Home Screen, on the Lock Screen, or in StandBy through the night - iCloud Sync: Kept safe, and already there when you switch phones PERFECT FOR Anyone with a day they can't stop thinking about. Stop counting the days in your head. With Dayseek, the date you're waiting for becomes something you look forward to seeing, the time keeps itself while you get on with everything else, and none of it ever passes through a server of ours. Your Date. Your Design. Your Countdown.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Dayseek4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Countdown at every 4 days against Dayseek's every 3 weeks. Countdown also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Dayseek sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 4 days, Dayseek every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Countdown versus Dayseek: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownDayseek
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkeinois OUyoungsoo jin

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

Dayseek

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions6
  • 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
One-time2
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$49.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99
1 purchases

Dayseek

One-time1
  • Dayseek Pro - Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dayseek free?
Dayseek is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown or Dayseek have ads?
Neither Countdown nor Dayseek shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Dayseek?
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, and Dayseek every 3 weeks. Most recently, Countdown was updated on November 3, 2026 and Dayseek on October 29, 2026.

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