Reminder & Countdown vs The Simple 30 Day Countdown
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
The Simple 30 Day Countdown
This minimalist timer allows you to set countdowns for up to 30 days. It's designed for simplicity and speed, offering a completely ad-free experience for tracking your important events.
- Countdown timer up to 30 days
- Simple and fast interface
- Completely ad-free
- Minimalist design
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The simple and fast countdown timer that can go up to 30 days and is completely ad-free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: The Simple 30 Day Countdown at none against Reminder & Countdown's shown. The Simple 30 Day Countdown also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Reminder & Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 9). On price, rating, update cadence 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 The Simple 30 Day Countdown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown has 17K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Reminder & Countdown ships an update every 3 months, The Simple 30 Day Countdown every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reminder & Countdown | The Simple 30 Day Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (17K ratings) | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Astakhov | Mats Bauer |
Customer experience
Reminder & Countdown
The Simple 30 Day Countdown
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
The Simple 30 Day Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reminder & Countdown
No in-app purchases
The Simple 30 Day Countdown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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