Comparison

12 vs Countdown Keeper

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

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About

12

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Your health and well-being are at their best when you take care of them on a regular basis. 12: Tasks & Habits is the simple app that helps you build life-changing habits and achieve meaningful goals—creating a happy, productive, and healthy lifestyle. Empower your day with a daily routine that supports success, discipline, and balance. Whether you’re trying to overcome procrastination, break bad habits, or build a healthy rhythm, 12: Tasks & Habits helps you stay consistent and focused—without distractions or overcomplication. Use 12: Tasks & Habits to: • Control stress and anxiety • Overcome procrastination • Break unproductive habits • Create a healthy daily routine • Build self-discipline and consistency • Boost energy and motivation • Develop an active and strong mindset To get started, press the + button to create a new habit or task. Then simply mark each day of the week when your task is complete—track your progress, stay focused, and feel the momentum build. Install 12: Tasks & Habits and start your personal transformation with a minimalist and effective tool that fits into your lifestyle. Subscription: Recurring billing. Cancel anytime. You can subscribe to get access to Premium Version, which includes all affirmations styles, fonts and categories as well as removes all ads form the app. The subscription is $4.99 weekly and $19.99 yearly. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off for at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You can read our privacy policy and terms of use at https://asterhills.co/terms. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. *Prices are equal to the value that “Apple’s App Store Matrix” determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in $USD. By using 12: Tasks & Habits, you agree to our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines available at https://asterhills.co/terms If you have any question or suggestion, feel free to contact: contact@asterhills.co

About

Countdown Keeper

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Countdown answers one simple question: how long has it been since an important date in your life — or how long until it comes? Save the dates that shaped your story — your date of birth, your first child's birth, your wedding, your graduation, moving into your home, your first day at work — and Countdown tells you exactly how long it has been, in years, months and days, on a live counter that updates every second. For dates still ahead — your retirement, the end of your home loan, a contract's end — it shows exactly how long is left. No sign-up and no clutter: you open the app and see your counters. Every date flips from "how long until" to "how long since" on its own the moment it arrives, so your timeline stays honest without you touching a thing. Countdown speaks both calendars. Count any date in Gregorian or in the Hijri (Umm al-Qura) calendar, and choose the right calendar for each date individually. Have a date in the other calendar? Convert it in the Date converter and save it straight away — no need to switch the app's calendar. • See how long since an important date, or how long until one ahead • Live counters that update every second • Choose exactly which units to show — years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds • Both calendars: Gregorian and Hijri (Umm al-Qura), per date • Event Story: write the story behind any date and reveal it below its card with a tap • Monthly recurring dates like salary and rent, rolling forward automatically • Reminders before a date — at the time, a day before, or a week before • Repeat a reminder after 5 or 10 minutes, with "Remind again" from the reminder history • Give each date an emoji icon or your own photo, and pick a card colour • Several card styles, and pin your most important dates to the home screen • Built-in date tools: Hijri ↔ Gregorian converter, age calculator, date difference, add & subtract days, and a retirement estimator • Encrypted backup of all your data, restored whenever you need • Export and import your dates as a JSON file • Optional app lock with fingerprint or Face ID • 18 languages: English, Arabic, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Urdu, Bengali and Hindi — with full right-to-left support for Arabic and Urdu Countdown is more than a reminder app. It is a calm, living timeline of the dates that shaped your story — and the ones still ahead. Instead of counting the years in your head or digging through old papers, keep every important date in one simple place and always know, at a glance, how long it has been and how long is left. Start free and add up to 5 events. When you need more, you can purchase the full version to add more events and use Countdown beyond the free event limit. Countdown needs no account, works fully offline, and your data stays on your device.

Screenshots

123 screens
Countdown Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 12 at every 3 days against Countdown Keeper's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 12 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Countdown Keeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

12 ships an update every 3 days, Countdown Keeper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
12 versus Countdown Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter12Countdown Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimon PereiraAbdul Almm

In-app purchases

2 purchases

12

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
1 purchases

Countdown Keeper

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$0.99

Questions

Is 12 free?
12 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Keeper free?
Countdown Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 12 or Countdown Keeper have ads?
Neither 12 nor Countdown Keeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 12 or Countdown Keeper?
12 ships an update every 3 days, and Countdown Keeper weekly. Most recently, 12 was updated on October 2, 2026 and Countdown Keeper on October 10, 2026.

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