Comparison

Ticker Factory Widget vs Up Ahead

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

Head to head
About

Ticker Factory Widget

Visualize countdowns and progress towards your goals with customizable widgets. Track events, personal milestones, and habits with hundreds of graphical elements. Share your progress on your home screen or across the web.

Highlights
  • Event countdowns
  • Progress tracking
  • Customizable widgets
  • Hundreds of graphical elements
  • Home screen display
  • Sharing capabilities
Features
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TickerFactory.com’s tickers are a fun, attractive and useful way to visualize a countdown to an event or goal. They are especially useful for motivation and recovery tracking purpose. Display on your home screen your progress, Use hundreds of graphical elements to customize it to your style and display it within the App or on your home screen as a widget or share it. Tickers include: Wedding Countdown Birthday Countdown Anniversary General Event Vacation and Travel Period, Menstrual Cycle and Trying to Conceive tracking Pregnancy Tracking Baby and Child Age Tracking Weight Loss Exercise and Fitness Debt Reduction Savings Fundraising Scrapbooking General Object Counter Customize your own for any event or goal You can share your tickers via the standard sharing features of your phone as well as use these tickers on your blog, forum signatures and web sites and on your phone’s home screen as widgets.

About

Up Ahead

A visually appealing app to track upcoming events with customizable countdown widgets for your Home and Lock Screens. Create events in seconds and personalize them with unique patterns. Stay organized with reminders and attachments.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown widgets
  • Event timeline view
  • Unlockable decorative patterns
  • Flexible reminders
  • Event attachments (notes/links)
  • Recurring and multi-day events
  • iCloud backups
Features
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Up Ahead is a playful, beautiful way to keep track of everything you’re looking forward to. Create events in seconds, and build yourself an eclectic timeline full of birthdays, weddings, holidays, vacations, game releases, sporting events, or anything coming up that brings you joy. As your timeline grows, you’ll unlock themed patterns that can be used to give your events personality. Keep your countdowns top of mind with customizable widgets for your Home Screen or Lock Screen. --- CREATE EVENTS Up Ahead events are quick and simple to create — just give your event a name, a date (with optional time), a category icon, and a color. EVENT TIMELINE View your events in a unique timeline format that gives you visual information about how much time is passing between events, and allows you to easily look back on your entire event history. PATTERNS As you create events, you’ll start to unlock decorative patterns that can be applied to any of your events and appear in both your in-app timeline and your widgets. Patterns are unlocked based on the content of your events, or as weekly gifts. How many can you find? REMINDERS Schedule flexible reminders to get notified about the events you don't want to miss. ATTACHMENTS Keep all your event information in one place by attaching short notes or links to your events. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS * "Countdown" widgets are simple widgets for counting down to a specific event. * "Coming up" widgets come in multiple sizes and will dynamically count down to whatever event is coming up next. They can be customized with filters and display names, allowing you to create widgets such as “Next Raptors game” or “Upcoming game releases”. * "Timeline grid" widgets give you a colorful high-level overview of all your upcoming events. LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Simplified versions of “Countdown” and “Coming up” widgets are available to place right on your Lock Screen. SIRI SHORTCUTS Automate event creation or ask Siri about your events with Siri Shortcuts. TIMELINE FILTERING Quickly filter your events temporarily so that you can get a clean look at just the film releases you’re looking forward to, or the birthdays you want to remember. RECURRING EVENTS Mark an event as recurring — weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or yearly — to have it automatically replace itself in your timeline when an instance of the event has passed. MULTI-DAY EVENTS Give an event an optional end date to countdown to both an event’s beginning and its end. ICLOUD BACKUPS Automatically back up your events and pattern unlocks to iCloud Drive to ensure you never lose access to your data. EVENT SHARING Lightweight event sharing allows you to export and share colorful images of any event. SOUND AND HAPTICS Delightful sound effects and haptics bring the app to life. ...and lots more fun stuff to discover. --- The free version of Up Ahead is free forever, and contains no ads. If you’re looking for the best way to simply pop a few good-looking countdown widgets onto your Home Screen or Lock Screen, downloading Up Ahead for free is a great place to start. With an in-app subscription to Up Ahead Plus, you’ll get all the bells and whistles: unlimited event creation, recurring and multi-day events, the full suite of widget types, and more. --- Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Privacy policy: https://upaheadapp.com/privacy Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Ticker Factory Widget4 screens
Up Ahead4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ticker Factory Widget and Up Ahead both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 84% of Up Ahead's written reviews are positive against 29% of Ticker Factory Widget's. Up Ahead also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (684 vs 32). Ticker Factory Widget's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ads 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. Up Ahead sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Ticker Factory Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Ticker Factory Widget against 4.9 for Up Ahead. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Up Ahead has 684 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of Ticker Factory Widget's written reviews are positive against 84% of Up Ahead's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ticker Factory Widget ships an update every 10 months, Up Ahead every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Ticker Factory Widget versus Up Ahead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTicker Factory WidgetUp Ahead
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (32 ratings)4.9 (684 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.9% of reviews83.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32684 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB37 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTamtris Web Services Inc.Daniel Gauthier

Customer experience

Ticker Factory Widget

All ratings32 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral9.4%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive28.9%
Neutral6.7%
Negative64.4%

Up Ahead

All ratings684 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews159 reviews
Positive83.6%
Neutral8.2%
Negative8.2%

Bugs and requests

Ticker Factory Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Up Ahead

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Widget doesn't update automatically
  • Backup feature doesn't work
  • Sound effects stopped working
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

11 requests
  • Unlock all patterns
  • More color options
  • More icons and customization
  • Calendar integration
  • Siri and reminder integration
Show 6 more
  • iPad app
  • Apple Watch complications
  • Ability to set end dates for recurring events
  • Periodic reminders for past events
  • Family sharing
  • Import events from other calendars

In-app purchases

None

Ticker Factory Widget

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Up Ahead

Subscriptions2
  • Up Ahead Plus$1.491 Month
  • Up Ahead Plus$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Up Ahead Plus$29.99

Questions

Is Ticker Factory Widget free?
Ticker Factory Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Up Ahead free?
Up Ahead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ticker Factory Widget or Up Ahead?
Up Ahead is rated higher. Ticker Factory Widget averages 4.8 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Up Ahead averages 4.9 from 684 ratings.
Do Ticker Factory Widget or Up Ahead have ads?
Neither Ticker Factory Widget nor Up Ahead shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ticker Factory Widget or Up Ahead?
Ticker Factory Widget ships an update every 10 months, and Up Ahead every 5 weeks. Most recently, Ticker Factory Widget was updated on August 25, 2026 and Up Ahead on September 28, 2026.

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