Comparison

Days To Countdown vs Mellow

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

Head to head
About

Days To Countdown

Easily track special events and moments with a modern countdown and reminder app. Customize events with backgrounds, colors, and fonts. Features home screen widgets and customizable notifications to ensure you never miss an important date.

Highlights
  • Countdown and count up for events
  • Customizable event themes and backgrounds
  • Home screen widgets
  • Reminder notifications
  • Repeat event options
  • Cloud backup
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Days To is a modern mix of a countdown app and a reminder app to track all your special events and moments. Whether it's a wedding, anniversary, birthday, holiday, graduation, exam, or retirement, our app makes it easy to count down how many days until the date! Our user-friendly app comes with home screen widgets that let you display your important events on your home screen for easy access. Plus, with notifications that remind you of important dates, you'll never forget an event again. With the Days To Countdown app, stay organized while reaching the milestones of your life! Days To is also highly customizable as much as it's functional. You can customize your events with backgrounds, colors, frames, and fonts to make each moment uniquely yours! Key Features: • Use with Ease Enjoy a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy to create, manage, and view your countdowns. • Home Screen Widgets for Every Style Display your favorite countdowns directly on your home screen for quick and easy access. Choose from a variety of widget styles and sizes to suit your preferences. • Personalize Every Events with Customizations Create personalized countdowns and count ups for all your important events and moments. Choose from different themes and colors to make each event unique. Customize your events with various colors, frames, and font options to add your personal touch! • Never Miss a Moment with Reminder Notifications Set up reminder notifications individually for each occasion in the way it suits. Choose when you get notification freely with six different options. Let our app help you remember! • Stunning Backgrounds Choose your background from our selection of stunning images or use your photos to make each one of them even more special! • Count up from Your Milestones and Moments with Day Since Day Since lets you count up from important dates and milestones. Track how long it's been since your wedding, the birth of your child, vacations, new beginnings or any special occasion. • Repeat Options Set events to repeat weekly, monthly, or yearly, so you never have to create the same countdown multiple times. For example, you can choose to repeat annually if it happens every year like an anniversary, Valentine's Day, Christmas, or Halloween. • Cloud Back-up Securely backup your events across multiple devices so you can access them from anywhere. Download now and join thousands of users and make your special moments unforgettable with Days To! Read our privacy policy, terms and conditions: https://www.daysto.app/privacy-and-terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mellow

Features
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LET SLEEP COME EASIER Mellow is a premium sleep sound app for quieter nights, calmer routines, and focused moments. Whether your mind is busy, your room is noisy, or you simply want a familiar bedtime cue, Mellow helps you shape a soundscape that feels personal. A Mellow Premium subscription is required to use the app after onboarding. • 14 soothing sleep and relaxation sounds • White noise, brown noise, and pink noise • Rain, thunder, ocean, wind, birds, crickets, and flowing water • Fan, air conditioner, fireplace, and jungle ambience • 11 atmospheric rooms with carefully balanced sound mixes • Personalized room recommendation during onboarding • Layer sounds and control each volume independently • Create, name, save, and replay your own mixes • Favorite the sounds you return to most • Sleep timer with custom duration and gentle fade-out • Background audio when your screen is locked • Offline listening—no streaming required • Available in English, Danish, German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Swedish • No Mellow account required A ROOM FOR EVERY NIGHT Step into Moonfall for rain against the window, Ember for a warm fireplace and distant weather, Tide for ocean and white noise, Aurora for cool air and wind, or Snowfall for a soft winter atmosphere. Mellow includes a collection of immersive rooms designed to make choosing a calming soundscape effortless. MAKE YOUR OWN SOUNDSCAPE Some nights call for steady brown noise. Others feel better with rain, a fan, or ocean waves. Mellow lets you layer multiple sounds, adjust each one separately, and save the result as a custom room you can return to anytime. FOR SLEEP, RELAXATION, AND FOCUS Use Mellow to create a consistent bedtime cue, soften distracting environmental noise, unwind after a busy day, help a baby settle, or build a quieter background for reading and concentration. Set a timer and let the sound fade gently when you are ready to drift off. PRIVATE AND AVAILABLE OFFLINE Mellow requires no account. Your saved mixes, favorites, onboarding answers, timer preferences, and personal settings stay on your device. All sounds are included inside the app, so playback continues without an internet connection. Internet access is required for purchasing, restoring, or refreshing a subscription and for opening support or legal webpages. MELLOW PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Mellow is subscription-only after onboarding. An active monthly or yearly Mellow Premium subscription is required to access the sounds, rooms, custom mixing, offline playback, and sleep tools. Eligible new subscribers may receive a free trial. Trial availability, duration, renewal period, and localized price are displayed clearly before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the purchase is confirmed or when an applicable free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Use “Restore purchases” on the paywall to recover an active subscription. Mellow supports relaxation, sleep, focus, and general wellness. It is not medical advice, a medical device, emergency assistance, or a substitute for professional care. Do not use audio when driving, operating machinery, or when it could prevent you from noticing danger. Privacy Policy: https://meetmellow.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://meetmellow.com/terms Support: https://meetmellow.com/contact

Screenshots

Days To Countdown4 screens
Mellow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mellow at none against Days To Countdown's shown. Days To Countdown's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Days To Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Mellow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Days To Countdown versus Mellow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDays To CountdownMellow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (148 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings148 — better—
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB132 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEROL YIKARBABAMarcus Larsen

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Days To Countdown

Subscriptions1
  • Days To Pro For 1 Year$4.991 Year
One-time2
  • Welcome Offer Lifetime Pro$8.99
  • Unlimited Pro$17.99
2 purchases

Mellow

Subscriptions2
  • Mellow Premium Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Mellow Premium Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Days To Countdown free?
Days To Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mellow free?
Mellow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Days To Countdown or Mellow have ads?
Days To Countdown shows ads; Mellow does not.
Which is updated more often, Days To Countdown or Mellow?
Days To Countdown ships an update daily, and Mellow daily. Most recently, Days To Countdown was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mellow on October 31, 2026.

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