Countdown Widget vs AlShamel Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Widget
Easily track important dates and events with customizable countdowns and reminders. View upcoming events on your home screen with widgets and receive timely notifications. Plan for any occasion, from birthdays to vacations, and stay organized.
- Create unlimited event countdowns
- Home screen widgets for at-a-glance viewing
- Customizable reminders before events
- Count up from past events
- Share events with friends and family
- Sync events across devices with iCloud
- Apple Watch support
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Countdowns for Events is a free and easy way to track the important events and dates in your life. Create a countdown for any occasion, stay organized, and glance at your upcoming events anytime with beautiful widgets and reminders. Features: • Create a countdown for all your important events • Add unlimited events and keep every date in one place • View your events from your Home Screen with a widget • Check your countdown at a glance on the Lock Screen (Premium feature) • Use StandBy widget support to glance at events anytime (Premium feature) • Keep your favorite events close with Home Screen widget options (Premium feature) • Get reminders on the day of your event, 1 day before, or 1 week before • Count down to future events or count up from past events • Customize colors and backgrounds for every countdown • Choose different countdown formats to match your style (Premium feature) • Share events and countdowns with friends and family • Sync your events across devices with iCloud • Repeat events daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly • Sort events from nearest to farthest • Add notes to every event • Organize events with tags • Support for Dark Mode • Count only working days when needed • Glance at your events on Apple Watch Whether you are planning a birthday, vacation, holiday, wedding, anniversary, baby due date, graduation, trip, concert, retirement, cruise, party, game, or special family event, this countdown app helps you stay ready for every moment. Track every event your way with a simple countdown, useful reminder tools, and widget support that makes it easy to see what matters most. We’d Love Your Feedback Contact us at support@bakermode.com and let us know how we can improve your countdown, reminders, timer, clock, alarm, counter and daycount experience! https://www.letuscake.com/countdown.html Privacy Policy: https://www.letuscake.com/countdown.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.letuscake.com/countdown.html
AlShamel Calendar
This app offers a comprehensive calendar experience, supporting Gregorian, Hijri (Fatimi and Umm al-Qura), Solar Hijri, and Astral calendars. It provides prayer times, Qibla direction, and date conversion tools, along with age and date difference calculations.
- Multiple calendar support (Gregorian, Hijri, Solar Hijri, Astral)
- Prayer times and Qibla direction
- Date conversion between calendars
- Age calculation
- Date difference calculation
- Location-based features
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Overall Calendar App: - A comprehensive application for each of the calendars (Gregorian - Hijri (Fatimi) - Hijri (Umm al-Qura) - Solar Hijri (Umm al-Qura - Persian) - Astral - Common among farmers). - Prayer times and Qibla direction according to your current location or determine your location from the map. - Convert the date to and from any calendar with the ability to share the result. - Calculating the age in any calendar with the ability to share the result. - Calculate the difference between two dates in any calendar with the ability to share the result.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown Widget at 86% against AlShamel Calendar's 56%. Countdown Widget also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 1). AlShamel Calendar's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). 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 Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 3 months and AlShamel Calendar sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AlShamel Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Countdown Widget's written reviews are positive against 56% of AlShamel Calendar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Countdown Widget ships an update every 11 days, AlShamel Calendar every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Widget | AlShamel Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LetUsBake, LLC | Modern Digitals LLC |
Customer experience
Countdown Widget
AlShamel Calendar
In-app purchases
Countdown Widget
- Countdown Pro – 3 Months$3.993 Months
- Life Time Pro Plan$9.99
AlShamel Calendar
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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