Comparison

ScheduledDay vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

ScheduledDay

Countdown to important scheduled days with customizable widgets and notifications. This app helps you anticipate and build excitement for upcoming events by providing timely reminders and visual personalization options.

Highlights
  • Countdown to scheduled days
  • Daily notifications
  • Customizable background image
  • Customizable font color
  • Widget support
Features
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This app counts down until a scheduled day of you. This app can notify at the daily appointed time. Your feeling will be raised by the scheduled day. A background image and font color can be changed.(Add-on)

About

Countdown

Visually track important dates and goals with customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Set up countdowns and count-ups for personal milestones, habits, or deadlines. Sync across devices and receive timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Count up and down timers
  • Recurrent event tracking
  • Calendar and Reminders synchronization
  • Customizable designs and templates
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Notifications for key dates
Features
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Track time with beautiful countdown widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Get the results you want by adding beautiful ALWAYS ON motivational countdowns to the device you use every day. On your wrist? On your Mac? Pretty Progress works there, too. Our objective is to support you achieve your goals. We beautifully track your goals so you don’t have to. What better place to remind yourself of the things that matter than the devices you use every day? Your life goals, your health routines, your personal habits, when your newborn arrives, the deadline of your PhD or your mother’s birthday… No matter what your goal is. Pretty Progress gives you beautiful countdowns with widgets to customize and track them all: - Count up & down towards a specific date or with a timer - Create recurrent events and count the days periodically - Synchronize and import Apple Calendar events and Reminders - Show the percentage of completion, how much time is left or how much time has past (time since). In years, months, weeks, days... or a combination of them - Beautiful and unique designs. 6 different templates to customize and add to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Stand By (iOS 17), and Watch complications - Customize colors, icons, layout, fonts, size... and every little aspect of the countdown at any time. Create your own personal Home Screen and Watch Face - A dashboard to visualize all the timers and day counters created and understand your deadlines, goals, achievements, or recurrent tasks - Notifications: 1 week and 1 day before, and at the end of your countdown, and every day, week, month or year after your habit streak - A library to get inspired and create widgets easily - 3 different sizes for the Home Screen widgets: small, medium, and large - All Lock Screen widgets localizations available - All complication sizes for Watch Faces supported - Dark mode support - iCloud synchronization. Sync your countdowns on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (Silicon) automatically - Family sharing enabled for the PRO purchase WHAT CAN YOU TRACK? - Health routines - Personal habits progress - Countdown to Christmas - Days until your mother's birthday - Countdown to your next holidays - Days until your project release deadline - Days left until your next trip - Percentage of your gym routine complete - Days left until your wedding anniversary - Days until retirement - Days until your financial independence - Percentage of the year, month, week... - Days left until your kombucha is fermented - How many days you have left on your vacations - Countdown to tax submission - Days until your new child arrives - Countdown to that important exam - Days until your graduation - Percentage of the academic year left - Days until Superbowl - My love countdown - Streak of days of habits - Daily, weekly and monthly tasks - Time until your new job WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK: We love to improve, so any feedback is always welcome! For any question, issue, suggestion or anything you want to say, contact at: hi@prettyprogress.app ======================= The free version of Pretty Progress includes four custom countdown widgets with two designs, the default daily, weekly, monthly and yearly progress and some customization options. If you purchase Pretty Progress PRO, the payment will be charged to your iTunes account. If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. ======================= Terms of Service: https://prettyprogress.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://prettyprogress.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

ScheduledDay4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against ScheduledDay's shown. Countdown also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 177). ScheduledDay's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. ScheduledDay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for ScheduledDay against 4.7 for Countdown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 3.1K ratings behind it against 177, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of ScheduledDay's written reviews are positive against 82% of Countdown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScheduledDay ships an update every 4 months, Countdown weekly. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ScheduledDay versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScheduledDayCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings)4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.4% of reviews82.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1773.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB143 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertadashi atojikeinois OU

Customer experience

ScheduledDay

All ratings177 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral5.1%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive73.4%
Neutral10.9%
Negative15.6%

Countdown

All ratings3,123 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews635 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative12.3%

User reviews

ScheduledDay

From 177 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Simple interface
  • 👍 Clear display
  • 👍 Convenient for motivation
  • 👍 Cute design elements

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Badge icon not updating
  • 🐛 Badge icon limited to 60 days
  • 🐛 App crashes
  • 🐛 Ads present
  • 🐛 Limited features

Countdown

From 3.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Handy and useful app
  • 🚀 Helpful for tracking goals and projects
  • 💡 Great customization options
  • 👍 Sleek and visually appealing design
  • 👍 Seamless integration with Apple ecosystem

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited functionality in free version
  • 💰 Paid features can be expensive for some users
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches reported
  • 🔒 Restricted customization options without paying

Bugs and requests

ScheduledDay

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Color change not saving
  • Home screen display not as previewed
  • Badge icon stops displaying
  • Badge icon only shows 60 days or less
  • App crashes
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  • Date not matching actual day
  • Countdown moved only once in 3 days
  • Purchase required to remove ads
  • Badge icon doesn't update automatically
  • D-day date calculated one day early
  • Badge on icon doesn't change

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more than one date/timer
  • Option to count down in weeks/months
  • Ability to share schedule with contacts
  • More background/theme choices
  • Automatic daily badge update
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  • Option to delete purchase history

Countdown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch for some users
  • Widgets not updating in real-time as expected
  • Countdown data resetting unexpectedly

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for widgets
  • Ability to track non-time-based progress
  • Improved recurring event management
  • Notification/alarm feature when countdown ends
  • Wider range of color and font options

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ScheduledDay

One-time1
  • Upgrade to full-version$2.99
14 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions10
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)$4.997 Days
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Weekly)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Monthly)7 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$8.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Pretty Progress Pro (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time4
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$29.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$34.99
  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)2 variants$49.99
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  • Pretty Progress PRO (Lifetime)$59.99

Questions

Is ScheduledDay free?
ScheduledDay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ScheduledDay or Countdown?
Countdown is rated higher. ScheduledDay averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Countdown averages 4.7 from 3.1K ratings.
Do ScheduledDay or Countdown have ads?
ScheduledDay shows ads; Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, ScheduledDay or Countdown?
ScheduledDay ships an update every 4 months, and Countdown weekly. Most recently, ScheduledDay was updated on October 23, 2026 and Countdown on October 23, 2026.

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