Comparison

Countdown ‎ vs HabitPuzzle Mosaic

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

Head to head
About

Countdown ‎

Visually track upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Set timers for vacations, concerts, or anniversaries using your own photos, music, and phrases. Share your progress with friends and family.

Highlights
  • iOS 16 Lock Screen Widgets
  • Home Screen Widgets
  • Customizable Background Photos
  • Personalized Music & Fonts
  • Calendar Event Integration
  • Count Up from Past Events
  • Event Reminders
Features
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Count down to your next event — a vacation, your favorite band's concert, a movie premiere, a graduation, an anniversary, and more — in style! Features: LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS: Add countdown widgets to your lock screen! First, set up your countdown in the Countdown app. Then, pull down your lock screen, long-hold an empty area and tap "Customize." FLEXIBLE UNITS: Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even heartbeats! (e.g. "3 months 14 mins" or "56,713 heartbeats") DRAG the Countdown and DISPLAY it wherever you want. Use YOUR OWN PHOTOS as the background, including INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOK PHOTOS! Or browse a large selection of FREE BACKGROUND PHOTOS. Flip through your background photos while counting down. Set your own MUSIC for each Countdown. Customizable FONTS, font colors, and background colors. Add YOUR OWN PHRASE — "the concert of the year," "little pumpkin's dance performance," "we board the plane." Create Countdowns straight from your CALENDAR EVENTS. MULTIPLE Countdowns — rearrange them however you like. REMINDERS for your events. SHARE a live Countdown or a screenshot via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or email. Count down to ANNIVERSARIES that repeat every year. (e.g. "25 days until my 10th anniversary!") COUNT UP from past events. (e.g. "21 days since…") SMART TOOLBAR stays hidden until you tap the screen — more room for your Countdowns. Works in PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE mode. === Countdown Premium === HOME SCREEN WIDGETS: Count the days to your event without ever opening the app. SLIDESHOW MODE: Automatically cycle your background photos with a choice of animation styles and speeds. NO ADS: No distractions or clutter — just you and your countdown. Make each second count! In addition to the free features above, Countdown Premium is available as a subscription. Premium subscribers get an ad-free experience, home screen widgets, and slideshow mode. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions are charged to your payment method through your Apple ID account and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription anytime in Account Settings. Terms: https://www.sunflowr.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sunflowr.com/privacy/

About

HabitPuzzle Mosaic

Features
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HabitPuzzle turns the patient work of building a habit into a piece of art you can hold in your hand. Every morning you open the app, tap once, and reveal a single tile. Day after day those tiles arrange themselves into a mosaic that only your discipline could have painted. Miss a day and the canvas waits — show up tomorrow and the picture keeps growing. It is the most quiet, most personal habit tracker you will ever use. No login. No sync. No social pressure. Your streaks live on your phone and nowhere else. Why people love HabitPuzzle: • One tap, one tile. No forms, no data entry — just a single satisfying check-in that visibly moves your puzzle forward. • A finished mosaic every 30 days. Each completed canvas is unique, generated from your habit, your theme, and the day you finished it. • Streaks that feel earned. The app remembers your current streak and your all-time best, and rewards consistency without nagging. • A Gallery of your discipline. Every mosaic you complete is saved forever to a private gallery you can scroll, favorite, and share. • Six built-in themes. Sunrise, Ocean, Forest, Blossom, Aurora, and Monochrome — pick a palette that fits the habit. • Gentle local reminders. Set a single time of day and HabitPuzzle will quietly tap you on the shoulder. Nothing more. • A 12-week heatmap. See your consistency at a glance, the way you would on a calendar — but prettier. • Beautiful in light and dark mode. Designed around the latest iOS Human Interface Guidelines, with full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support. 100 percent local, 100 percent yours. HabitPuzzle never connects to the internet. There are no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no advertising. Your habits, check-ins, and finished mosaics are stored on your device using Apple's SwiftData and never leave it. If you delete the app, the data is gone. That is the whole privacy policy. Designed for the long run. The app is built around a simple idea: you are not trying to win a streak, you are trying to build a life. HabitPuzzle gives small wins that accumulate into something visible — a wall of mosaics that proves, on the days when motivation is low, that you have done this before and you can do it again. Whether you are starting a morning run, cutting screen time before bed, learning a language, drinking more water, or finally getting back to journaling, HabitPuzzle gives the practice a face. Show up once a day. Watch the picture form. Habits make art.

Screenshots

Countdown ‎4 screens
HabitPuzzle Mosaic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HabitPuzzle Mosaic at none against Countdown ‎'s 5. HabitPuzzle Mosaic also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown ‎ sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months. HabitPuzzle Mosaic asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Countdown ‎ versus HabitPuzzle Mosaic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown ‎HabitPuzzle Mosaic
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (11K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSevenlogics, Inc.晓 郭

Bugs and requests

Countdown ‎

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes on opening
  • Countdown not displaying correctly
  • Widget not loading properly
  • Purchased premium features not working

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to have multiple countdowns
  • Option to repeat countdown events
  • Countdown widget on home screen
  • Improved sharing capabilities

HabitPuzzle Mosaic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Countdown ‎

Subscriptions2
  • Countdown Premium - 3 Months$4.993 Months
  • Countdown Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium Backgrounds I$0.99
  • Holiday Backgrounds I$0.99
  • Premium$19.99
None

HabitPuzzle Mosaic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown ‎ free?
Countdown ‎ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HabitPuzzle Mosaic free?
HabitPuzzle Mosaic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Countdown ‎ or HabitPuzzle Mosaic have ads?
Countdown ‎ shows ads; HabitPuzzle Mosaic does not.

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