Ahead vs Countdown widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ahead
Easily track important life events with this user-friendly calendar countdown application. View upcoming events as home screen widgets, receive timely notifications, and share your countdowns with others. Sync events across devices and enjoy a dark mode option.
- Home screen widgets
- Event notifications
- Cross-device sync
- Event sharing
- Dark mode
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Count down to the days that matter. Ahead keeps your trips, birthdays, holidays and big days in one calm list, sorted soonest first, and puts them on your Lock Screen, Home Screen and wrist. MAKE EACH PLAN YOUR OWN • Give any plan a photo background: pick a preset, use one of your own photos, or create one with Image Playground on iOS 27 • Count in days, weeks or months, or let Smart pick • Pin the plans you care about most to the top • Count up from the moments worth remembering, like a move or a birth ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN • Live Activities on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Lock Screen widgets, including a ring that fills as the day gets closer • Home Screen widgets for your next plan or the next four • An extra-large widget for iPad PLAN IT TOGETHER • Share plans with family and friends • Keep notes with checklists and formatting • Attach photos, tickets and documents • Publish your plans to Apple Calendar • Reminders when a plan is close EVERY DEVICE • iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, always in sync • A sidebar and detail layout on iPad, Mac and iPhone Duo • Watch complications that show the plan you choose • Back up and restore your plans from Settings AHEAD FREE Notes, sharing, reminders, widgets, Mac and Apple Watch, with up to 5 active plans. No ads. AHEAD PLUS Unlimited active plans, photos and files, premium backgrounds, every countdown format and all app themes. Billed yearly, or once for life. Questions or ideas? Tap Suggest a new feature in Settings. We read every one. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Countdown widget
Easily create and track upcoming life events with a stylish countdown timer. View your most important dates at a glance with a convenient widget. Also supports counting up elapsed time for past events.
- Create various event types
- Convenient widget for quick view
- Track elapsed time for past events
- Dark mode support
- User-friendly interface
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Countdown presents a user-friendly countdown timer for significant life events. Easily track the time until your upcoming Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more, all with a touch of style! Key Features: • Effortlessly create various event types • Convenient widget for a quick view of your most crucial events • Track elapsed time with the count-up feature for past events • Dark mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown widget at none against Ahead's 2. Countdown widget also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Ahead's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and iOS requirement 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. Ahead sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Countdown widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ahead against 5.0 for Countdown widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Ahead ships an update every 5 weeks, Countdown widget fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ahead | Countdown widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Malek | Ruslan Dauletkaliuly |
In-app purchases
Ahead
- Annual Subscription$3.991 Year
- Lifetime Unlock$12.99
Countdown widget
No in-app purchases
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