Comparison

Countdown Me vs How Many Days Until

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

Head to head
About

Countdown Me

Track upcoming events with customizable widgets and app icon badges. See remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds without opening the application. Create alerts and share countdowns with others.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets (iOS 16+)
  • App icon badge countdowns
  • Detailed countdowns (seconds)
  • Event alerts
  • Calendar event integration
  • Shareable countdowns
Features
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Create an event or select one from your calendar and track the remaining days on your home screen (or on your lockscreen on latest iOS) using widgets, or on the app icon’s badge. See the remaining days (minutes, seconds) without even opening the app. Countdown Me lets you - see a list of your countdowns without opening the app on your lockscreen (new on iOS 16), on your homescreen using widgets. - see the remaining days to your most important event without opening the app on the app icon’s badge. - create a new countdown quickly by selecting an existing event from your calendar or create a new event in the app - create an alert for an upcoming event. - see detailed countdowns: not only days, but also hours, minutes and seconds. You can enable this inside the app in Settings. - share countdowns with your friends & family Notes: We use Apple PUSH Notification technology for updating the app icon’s badge number. In other words, for the feature to work, you should connect to the internet regularly. This is a limitation imposed by Apple — there is no other usable way of changing the badge number. The rest of the app’s functionality works also without internet connection. Follow us on Twitter @tapmints - see a list of your countdowns without opening the app on your lockscreen (new on latest iOS), on your homescreen (iOS 14 and later) or in the Today widget in case you use iOS 13 or older. - see the remaining days to your most important event without opening the app on the app icon’s badge. - create a new countdown quickly by selecting an existing event from your calendar or create a new event in the app - create an alert for an upcoming event. - see detailed countdowns: not only days, but also hours, minutes and seconds. You can enable this inside the app in Settings. - share CountdownMeUITests with your friends & family Notes: We use Apple PUSH Notification technology for updating the app icon’s badge number. In other words, for the feature to work, you should connect to the internet regularly. This is a limitation imposed by Apple — there is no other usable way of changing the badge number. The rest of the app’s functionality works also without internet connection. Follow us on Twitter @tapmints Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

How Many Days Until

Easily track upcoming special occasions with this app. Set reminders for important dates and personalize your countdowns with beautiful backgrounds. Its simple interface makes managing your events straightforward.

Highlights
  • Create and save special days
  • Event reminders
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • Simple user interface
Features
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Count down to the days ahead, and count up from the days you never want to forget. Trusted by 465,000+ people since 2016. COUNT DOWN OR COUNT UP • Days until your next trip, birthday, wedding or big exam • Days since your anniversary, your first day, any memory that keeps counting SEE IT EVERYWHERE • Home Screen widgets with your own photos • Lock Screen widgets for a glance at your big day • Live countdown that ticks down to the very second NEVER MISS A BIG DAY • Reminders before the day: 100, 30, 7 days and more • A celebration on the day itself • Anniversary milestones at 100, 365 and 1,000 days MAKE IT YOURS • Your photos as full-screen backgrounds • Beautiful built-in themes • Calendar view of your whole year SAFE IN ICLOUD • Your events back up automatically • New phone? Sign in and they come right back Free to start. Premium unlocks the live countdown, photo widgets and custom photo backgrounds, with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime. Download How Many Days Until and never lose count of what matters. Privacy Policy: https://whiteoj.vercel.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Countdown Me4 screens
How Many Days Until4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown Me at 81% against How Many Days Until's 25%. Countdown Me also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (27 vs 1). How Many Days Until's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Countdown Me sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per year and How Many Days Until sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

How Many Days Until holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Me has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Countdown Me's written reviews are positive against 25% of How Many Days Until's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown Me ships an update every 7 months, How Many Days Until monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Countdown Me versus How Many Days Until: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown MeHow Many Days Until
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (27 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.8% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTapMintsAtthaporn Chanprakon

Customer experience

Countdown Me

All ratings17 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews120 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral10.0%
Negative9.2%

How Many Days Until

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative70.8%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown Me

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited number of countdowns$0.991 Year
2 purchases

How Many Days Until

Subscriptions1
  • How Many Days Until Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Countdown Me free?
Countdown Me is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is How Many Days Until free?
How Many Days Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown Me or How Many Days Until?
How Many Days Until is rated higher. Countdown Me averages 4.6 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while How Many Days Until averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Countdown Me or How Many Days Until have ads?
How Many Days Until shows ads; Countdown Me does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Me or How Many Days Until?
Countdown Me ships an update every 7 months, and How Many Days Until monthly. Most recently, Countdown Me was updated on October 21, 2026 and How Many Days Until on October 25, 2026.

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