Comparison

Action Calendar vs anyCountdown

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

Head to head
About

Action Calendar

This app helps you build good habits by tracking daily actions. Mark off completed tasks to fill your calendar with gold stars, providing visual motivation and feedback.

Highlights
  • Track daily actions and goals
  • Mark off completed tasks
  • Visual gold star calendar feedback
  • Motivation for habit building
  • Personalized goal setting
Features
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A personal gold star system for actioning your daily goals. Have one or more actions you would like to achieve each day? It could be to meditate, complete a workout, make time to read, do 30 minutes of yoga, eat more or less chocolate, or spend time talking to a friend? Add your actions into Action Calendar and each day mark them off when you complete them. As you complete more actions each day the calendar will fill with gold; giving you instant feedback on how well you are keeping your daily actions. See your calendar fill with more gold will help reinforce your motivation for keeping good habits.

About

anyCountdown

This widget app helps you visualize important upcoming dates with customizable designs. Track events like weddings, birthdays, and holidays directly on your Home and Lock Screens. It offers a variety of themes and personalization options, with an option to count up after an event occurs.

Highlights
  • Customizable Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Over 30 hand-crafted widget styles
  • Count-up mode for past events
  • Personalize with own photos, fonts, and colors
  • No sign-in required
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
Features
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Every big moment deserves a beautiful countdown. Countdown is the widget app that puts your most important days front and centre on your Home Screen and Lock Screen — stunning, glanceable, and always up to date. Whether you are counting down to your wedding day, the arrival of a new baby, a dream holiday, a big exam, or retirement, Countdown turns any date into a beautiful widget you will look forward to seeing every time you pick up your phone. BEAUTIFUL WIDGETS FOR EVERY OCCASION Countdown offers more than 30 hand-crafted widget styles, from elegant wedding florals and botanical watercolours to bold minimalist type, K-pop fan themes, anime-inspired designs, and even memento mori styles for the philosophically inclined. There is a theme for every personality and every event. Widgets live on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, so your countdown is always visible without opening the app. Choose from small, medium, and large sizes to fit your layout perfectly. EVENTS WE LOVE Wedding and engagement countdowns. Baby due dates and pregnancy milestones. Birthday and anniversary reminders. Christmas and New Year anticipation. Graduation day. Retirement. Next holiday or cruise. Exam dates. Sobriety milestones. The start of a new school year. Any date that matters to you. COUNT UP AS WELL AS DOWN Once your event arrives, Countdown does not go dark. Switch to count-up mode and watch the days, months, and years accumulate since that special moment — perfect for tracking how long you have been married, how old your child is, or how long you have maintained a healthy streak. NO SIGN-IN REQUIRED Countdown does not ask for an account, an email address, or a subscription. Open the app, create your event, pick a theme, and your widget is live. Your data syncs automatically across all your Apple devices via iCloud. PERSONALISE EVERYTHING Add your own photos as widget backgrounds. Choose fonts, colours, and layouts. Give each countdown a name. Whether you want something romantic and ornate or clean and modern, you will find the perfect look. FREE AND PRO Countdown is free to download and use. Upgrade to Pro for a one-time payment of $9.99 to unlock all widget styles and future updates. Individual theme packs are also available for $3.99 each if you prefer to pick only what you love. There is no subscription, no hidden cost, and no data harvesting. Pay once, enjoy forever. START YOUR COUNTDOWN TODAY Your wedding is getting closer. Your baby is almost here. The holiday you have been planning for months is nearly in reach. Download Countdown and make every day feel like it counts. Terms of Use: https://markg.app/apps/countdown/terms Privacy Policy: https://markg.app/apps/countdown/privacy

Screenshots

Action Calendar4 screens
anyCountdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Action Calendar at 5.0 against anyCountdown's 1.0. Action Calendar also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). anyCountdown's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. anyCountdown sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Action Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Action Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Action Calendar ships an update fortnightly, anyCountdown every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Action Calendar versus anyCountdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAction CalendaranyCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB696 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWARETu Hoang

Customer experience

Action Calendar

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

anyCountdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Action Calendar

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

anyCountdown

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Action Calendar free?
Action Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is anyCountdown free?
anyCountdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Action Calendar or anyCountdown?
Action Calendar is rated higher. Action Calendar averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while anyCountdown averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Action Calendar or anyCountdown have ads?
Neither Action Calendar nor anyCountdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Action Calendar or anyCountdown?
Action Calendar ships an update fortnightly, and anyCountdown every 6 days. Most recently, Action Calendar was updated on October 30, 2026 and anyCountdown on October 27, 2026.

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