Comparison

It's Almost Time vs WordsOS

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

Head to head
About

It's Almost Time

Track the time remaining until important events with customizable countdowns. Set notifications and choose display details for each occasion. Share events with friends and access them across devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown display (years to seconds)
  • Adjustable colors for portrait and landscape modes
  • Event notifications
  • Unlimited occasions
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Event sharing via email and messages
  • Multiple widget types
Features
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Ever wonder how long until your next vacation, how many shopping days until Christmas, or how long until your next birthday? Well, now you can have that information at your fingertips. You simply enter the date and time of the event of interest and watch the seconds tick away! • Specify the level of detail to be displayed from Years down to Seconds • Specify the colors used to display the countdown and text • Control over the details and colors used separately for Portrait and Landscape modes • Set a notification when the occasion date and time arrives • Unlimited number of occasions • Occasions are stored securely in your iCloud account, so no one except you has access to them • Ability to share and receive occasions between your friends using email and messages • Several different types of Widgets

About

WordsOS

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WordsOS is a word processor for Mac, iPad and iPhone that opens and saves real Word documents — and keeps them on your device. REAL .DOCX, NOT AN APPROXIMATION Most apps that read .docx rebuild your document out of the parts they understand and quietly drop the rest. WordsOS keeps all of it. Anything it does not yet model — tracked changes, comments, footnotes, equations, charts, embedded objects — is carried through your edit and written back exactly as it arrived. Measured rather than claimed: across our own corpus, 50 of 50 real documents open, save and reopen with no semantic differences, and Word opens the result with no repair prompt. Opens and saves .docx, .dotx, .docm and .dotm. Plain text too — and it tells you plainly what formatting that costs. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account. No sign-in. No sync. No analytics. The Mac version does not even ask for the network entitlement, so no document can cause a network request merely by being opened. Your writing is a file on your disk and nowhere else. EVERY DOCUMENT IS TREATED AS HOSTILE A document someone emailed you is untrusted data, and WordsOS was built that way from the first line. Macros are preserved but never run. The XML reader has no DTD or entity support at all, so the classic XXE and billion-laughs attacks cannot even be expressed. Archive bombs, path traversal and oversized images are refused before a byte is allocated. WRITING • Paragraph and character styles, with a quick-style gallery • Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript • Fonts, sizes, text colour and highlight • Alignment, indentation, line spacing, bullets and numbered lists • Format painter, find and replace, hyperlinks, images, page breaks • Twelve templates: Blank, Letter, Report, Meeting notes, CV, Cover letter, Invoice, Project plan, Agenda, Newsletter, Essay, Checklist • Heading navigator, live word, character and paragraph counts • One undo stack across typing and formatting alike REAL PAGES Your text is laid out on sheets, not in an endless column. You see where each page ends, and the page number in the status bar is the page you are looking at. Text wraps in the page's own 6.5-inch column — the column that prints — rather than in whatever the window happens to be wide. Working at night? Set the page to White, Sepia or Dark. It is a viewing preference, never written into your file, so what you send is exactly what you wrote. ONE APP FOR MAC, IPAD AND IPHONE A native build for each, not a phone app stretched to fit. The Mac has a menu bar, printing, PDF export and a zoomable page; iPad and iPhone have the same editor with touch-sized controls and the whole page fitted to the screen. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IS NOT HERE YET Tables, headers and footers, footnotes, comments and tracked changes are read from your document and written back untouched, but cannot yet be edited on screen. There is no table of contents, mail merge, or collaboration. If your work depends on those, this release is not yet for you — and if it does not, nothing you open in the meantime will be damaged. WordsOS is an independent word processor. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation.

Screenshots

It's Almost Time4 screens
WordsOS3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WordsOS at Free against It's Almost Time's $1.99. WordsOS also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

WordsOS is free to download; It's Almost Time costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

It's Almost Time ships an update every 5 weeks, WordsOS monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
It's Almost Time versus WordsOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIt's Almost TimeWordsOS
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerhot-n-GUI, LLCAPPLOAD LLC (NJ)

In-app purchases

None

It's Almost Time

No in-app purchases

None

WordsOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is It's Almost Time free?
It's Almost Time costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WordsOS free?
WordsOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do It's Almost Time or WordsOS have ads?
Neither It's Almost Time nor WordsOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, It's Almost Time or WordsOS?
It's Almost Time ships an update every 5 weeks, and WordsOS monthly. Most recently, It's Almost Time was updated on October 24, 2026 and WordsOS on October 24, 2026.

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