Reminder & Countdown vs Countdown Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reminder & Countdown
Never miss an important event with this app. Set up custom reminders for everything from birthdays to holidays, with real-time countdowns and configurable alerts. Personalize your events with unique icons, backgrounds, and fonts, and easily share your countdowns with friends and family.
- Real-time countdowns
- Customizable alerts
- Event personalization (icons, backgrounds, fonts)
- Import birthdays and calendar events
- Event sharing via multiple platforms
- Multiple reminder options
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The app is designed to remind you about all your important events, meetings, friends’ birthdays, a long-awaited TV Shows premieres, dentist appointments, coming-soon holidays, a wedding date and any upcoming events you don’t want to miss. Event information comes in a nicely-wrapped pack. All details (such as date and time, font, icon, alert sound, background and other options) can be configured according to your taste. The app is complemented with excellent sharing options giving you an opportunity to send your reminders to anyone throughout the world via SMS, MMS, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, WhatsApp, Viber and other social networks and services. KEY FEATURES: - Multiple reminders - Counting down in real-time - Selection of timing units you wish to count down - Sorting entries by date, name or applying a customizable sorting - Individual names, time&date options, categories - Various icons - Custom intervals to repeat events - Configurable alerts before or after a due date - Individual backgrounds - A wide variety of fonts to choose from - Formatting Dates and Times: Full, Short, and Abbreviated time units can be applied - Importing birthdays from your Address book - Importing events from the iOS Calendar app and Reminders app - Changing the default event icon to a personal photo - Set photos as background - Sharing countdowns through all available ways sending the whole countdown screenshot or only a part of it And you can also: - Enjoy awesome, easy to use UI - Make colourful notes - Brighten up reminders - Use the app as an alarm Thank you for your thoughts, they are very valuable! We are continued to make Reminder & Countdown even better, so never lose the drive to share your impressions and feedback with us at support@persapps.com
Countdown Timer
Track time remaining until important events or time elapsed since a past event. Receive notifications when a countdown expires. This app offers a simple, ad-free experience for managing your time.
- Countdown timer
- Count-up timer
- Event tracking
- Time remaining
- Time elapsed
- Event notifications
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The simplest countdown timer (and regular countdown). Without advertising. The timer works in two modes: 1. How much time left to the event 2. How much time has passed after the event When the timer expires, you will receive a notification.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Countdown Timer at none against Reminder & Countdown's shown. Countdown Timer also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Reminder & Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (16K vs 1.2K) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reminder & Countdown against 4.8 for Countdown Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown has 16K ratings behind it against 1.2K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Reminder & Countdown's written reviews are positive against 85% of Countdown Timer's.
Reminder & Countdown ships an update every 3 months, Countdown Timer every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reminder & Countdown | Countdown Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (16K ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.1% of reviews — better | 84.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16K — better | 1.2K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Astakhov | Gregory Strigunov |
Customer experience
Reminder & Countdown
Countdown Timer
User reviews
Reminder & Countdown
From 16K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and convenient
- 👍 Versatile and customizable
- 👍 Reliable and easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for organizing important dates
- 👍 Useful for medical and appointment reminders
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional issues with reminders not working as expected
- 🐛 Reminders sometimes persist even after being deleted
- 🐛 Sync issues between devices
- 🔋 Concerns about high battery consumption
Countdown Timer
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and straightforward
- 🚀 No ads or subscriptions
- 🔒 No unnecessary permissions or tracking
- 👍 Minimalistic and clean design
- 👍 Easy to use and understand
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs or glitches
- 🔍 Limited functionality (single timer only)
Bugs and requests
Reminder & Countdown
Reported bugs
3 issues- Reminders not clearing after being deleted
- Countdown timers not always accurate
- Notification issues after iOS updates
Requested features
5 requests- Allow snooze and nag functions for reminders
- Integrate with calendar apps for better sync
- Add ability to filter reminders by work/school days
- Provide more customization options for backgrounds and icons
- Enable sharing of countdowns with friends and family
Countdown Timer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Timer not always accurate
- Countdown not working as expected in some cases
Requested features
3 requests- Add widget support
- Allow multiple timers/countdowns
- Provide more customization options
In-app purchases
Reminder & Countdown
No in-app purchases
Countdown Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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