Comparison

Countara vs Upcoming

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Countara

Never forget important life events with this app. It helps you track countdowns to special occasions, recurring tasks, and significant moments with customizable designs and smart notifications. Save notes and enjoy enchanting animations.

Highlights
  • Countdown to special moments
  • Recurring event reminders
  • Individual design customization
  • Smart event notifications
  • Notes for memories
  • Home screen widgets
  • iCloud device syncing
Features
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Welcome to “Momently” - your companion for capturing the special moments in life! Don't want to forget the important events in your life? Whether it's birthdays, anniversaries, regular tasks or other significant moments, Momently offers the perfect solution to remember them fondly. - Countdown to unforgettable moments: Whether you're working towards a vacation, a wedding anniversary or another special occasion, - Recurring events: Never miss a recurring event again - be it weekly, monthly or yearly. We'll remind you in time. - Individual design: Design your moments according to your taste! Add your own images, play with different font colors and sizes to personalize moments and make them unique. - Notifications: Stay up to date on upcoming events with our smart notifications. - Notes for unforgettable memories: capture your thoughts and emotions at every moment. - Enchanting animations: Be enchanted by our appealing animations and enjoy the app's user-friendliness. - Widgets: Stay on top of your important events by placing our handy widgets right on your home screen. - iCloud Integration: Easily sync your Moments between devices and enjoy use anywhere. With “Momently” capturing special moments becomes an uncomplicated pleasure. Download the app today and never miss an important moment! Your precious memories deserve the best attention.

About

Upcoming

Track important dates with a customizable countdown widget. Visualize your progress towards goals, events, or holidays with daily updates. Stay motivated and focused by seeing how much time remains until your next milestone.

Highlights
  • Daily countdown tracking
  • Customizable icons and colors
  • Event card styling
  • Motivation for goal completion
  • Sense of urgency for tasks
Features
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Upcoming is a simple and easy to use countdown day by day app. It is user friendly and highly customisable. You are able to select the icon, color to style your events card. It can use to track the day of your anniversary, birthday, holiday, graduations or anything you can think out. Motivation - The willingness to complete something - Knowing how much time left to your goal is pure motivation to get ti done faster. Sense of Urgency - Looking at it day by day it will install a sense of urgency in you. Therefore, you will spend less time on social media or Netflix and will be more focused on the task at hand. If you have any suggestion, please leave us a review on App Store. We hope to read them soon so that we can make the app even better for you. Terms and pricing: Upcoming offers an auto-renewing yearly subscription at $10.49 USD/year to provide you with unlimited access to groups, colors, icons and all the premium features while you maintain an active subscription. Payment will be charged to the payment method connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JNCHjdEaUqFAD1AAu1UufTuoq4-qbyzt3BvMIHGcQn8/edit?usp=sharing Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Countara4 screens
Upcoming4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Countara at free with in-app purchases against Upcoming's subscription. Countara also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (79% vs 57%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Countara sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.79 per month and Upcoming sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Countara against 4.7 for Upcoming. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 40 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Countara's written reviews are positive against 57% of Upcoming's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countara ships an update monthly, Upcoming every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countara versus Upcoming: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountaraUpcoming
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (27 ratings)4.7 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews — better56.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2740 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.616.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobin Guido SchmidtKok Keong

Customer experience

Countara

All ratings27 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral7.4%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral21.4%
Negative0.0%

Upcoming

All ratings40 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive56.5%
Neutral30.4%
Negative13.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Countara

Subscriptions3
  • Countara+ monthly$0.791 Month
  • Countara+ Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Countara+ yearly$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime premium Discount$7.99
  • Countara+ one-time purchase$8.99
4 purchases

Upcoming

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$11.491 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime - Early Bird Discount$5.99
  • Lifetime$20.99

Questions

Is Countara free?
Countara is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Upcoming free?
Upcoming is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countara or Upcoming?
Countara and Upcoming are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 27 and 40 ratings respectively.
Do Countara or Upcoming have ads?
Upcoming shows ads; Countara does not.
Which is updated more often, Countara or Upcoming?
Countara ships an update monthly, and Upcoming every 2 months. Most recently, Countara was updated on September 29, 2026 and Upcoming on October 1, 2026.

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