Habi vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Habi
Develop positive habits and daily routines with this straightforward and effective application. It's designed to help you build and reinforce good habits for a better future, with a focus on simplicity and psychological principles.
- Create and reinforce good habits
- Develop daily routines
- Simple and effective design
- Free to use
- No registration or data tracking
- Based on human psychology
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Our mission: "Create a simple and effective habit tracker that everyone can use for free." Habi will help you create, reinforce and develop good habits for a better tomorrow. *** Why Habi? *** • Habi is simple and effective. Even your child can use it. • Habi is free. No registration, ads, or personal data tracking. • Habi grows with you. Build your streak to unlock more habits and weekly skips. • Habi connects. Share your daily status with friends and check progress together. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Countdown
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Countdown helps you keep track of the moments that matter - and everything you need to prepare for them. Create beautiful countdowns for holidays, birthdays, trips, deadlines, launches, celebrations and more. Each event can include checklists, links, file attachments and notes, so the details stay together instead of being scattered across different apps. Add Countdown widgets to your Home Screen to keep upcoming events visible at a glance, and personalise each countdown with its own theme and emoji. With Countdown you can: - Create countdowns for any upcoming event - Track days, hours, minutes and seconds - Create checklists for things you need to get done - Attach useful files directly to an event or checklist item - Save important links alongside your plans - Add countdown widgets to your Home Screen - Customise events with themes and emoji - Share files directly into Countdown from other apps Countdown includes 3 free event slots with access to all core features. Unlock Unlimited with a single one-time purchase to create unlimited events - no subscription.. Whether you're counting down to something exciting or keeping an important deadline on track, Countdown keeps the date and the details in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Habi at 15.0 against Countdown's 26.0. 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. Habi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Habi ships an update every 6 weeks, Countdown monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Habi | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Obertynskyi | Liam Watts |
In-app purchases
Habi
- Supporter Monthly$0.991 Month
- Lifetime unlimited$4.99
Countdown
- Unlimited Events$3.99









