Countdown vs Grub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- iOS 16 Lock Screen Widgets
- Home Screen Widgets
- Customizable Background Photos
- Personalized Music & Fonts
- Calendar Event Integration
- Count Up from Past Events
- Event Reminders
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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/
Grub
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See something. Say something. Clean it up together. Grub turns noticing litter and hazards in your neighbourhood into something you actually want to do. Spot a mess, snap a photo, and raise a "muck" — a pinned report anyone nearby can see, help close out, or show up for. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Raise a Muck — photograph litter or hazards and drop a pin in seconds • Find nearby — browse a live map of open mucks, community clean-up events, and reported hazards near you, with a one-tap "near me" view and adjustable search radius • Schedule Events — organise a clean-up, link the mucks you're targeting, and invite your Squad • Squads — form a group with friends, classmates, or your local community and climb a shared leaderboard • Weekly Challenges — a fresh community-wide goal every week, with real-time progress • Badges & streaks — build a cleaning streak and unlock badges as your impact adds up • Patch health — your local area has a visible state, barren, growing, or thriving, driven by the real ratio of cleared vs. outstanding mucks nearby • Grub, your companion — a small creature who lives in your patch and grows through real life stages as your community's impact grows WHY GRUB Litter reporting apps tend to feel like paperwork. Grub is built to feel like a game you're playing with your neighbours — see the mess, log it, watch the map change, watch your patch (and your Grub) come alive. Your data stays private and secure with iCloud sync via Sign in with Apple. Prefer to browse without an account? Continue as a guest — your data just stays on that device. You can delete your account and data at any time from Settings. Grub is free, ad-free, and built for real communities who want their patch to look better than they found it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grub at none against Countdown 's 5. Grub 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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 3 months. Grub asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Countdown | Grub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (11K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sevenlogics, Inc. | David Defranceski |
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
Grub
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Premium - 3 Months$4.993 Months
- Countdown Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Premium Backgrounds I$0.99
- Holiday Backgrounds I$0.99
- Premium$19.99
Grub
No in-app purchases







