Comparison

New Years Eve Countdown vs Countdown to Anything!

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

Head to head
About

New Years Eve Countdown

This app helps you celebrate the New Year with a dynamic countdown, customizable themes, and festive animations. Enjoy a midnight party mode with sound and confetti, and share the excitement with friends and family. It also offers widgets for your home and lock screens.

Highlights
  • Dynamic countdown to midnight
  • Midnight party mode with audio and confetti
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Global countdown tracking
  • Customizable themes and photos
  • Shareable countdown excitement
Features
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Make the next year magical with New Years Eve! Watch the countdown, add your favourite celebration photo and get ready to welcome the New Year with music, colour and confetti. YOUR NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN See the days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining until midnight. The countdown automatically moves to the next New Year, so you can enjoy it year after year. MIDNIGHT PARTY MODE Bring everyone together with an animated flip-clock countdown. Enjoy celebration audio during the final ten seconds, optional haptics and a burst of confetti when midnight arrives. Try the countdown rehearsal whenever you like. For the midnight experience, keep party mode open and turn up your volume! HOME AND LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Keep the New Year countdown close with widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. CELEBRATE AROUND THE WORLD Follow the countdown to midnight in Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo, Dubai, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. MAKE IT YOURS Choose classic red, midnight gold or neon party themes, and personalise the app with your own celebration photo. SHARE THE EXCITEMENT Share your countdown with friends and family, or tap “Let’s celebrate!” for celebration audio and confetti at any time. From the first days of January to the final seconds of December, keep the excitement of the New Year with you.

About

Countdown to Anything!

Easily track upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Choose from a vast library of icons or create your own to personalize your countdowns for any occasion, from birthdays to holidays. Get notifications and share your progress with friends.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns to any date/time
  • Customizable with hundreds of icons
  • Repeating countdowns (yearly, weekly)
  • Tagging for organization
  • End countdown notifications
  • Shareable countdowns
  • Add notes to countdowns
Features
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Count down to anything - birthdays, vacations, weddings, baby due dates and more - with no ads! FEATURES • Create countdowns to any future date and time, or even countups from a past event • Customise your countdowns with hundreds of cute icons for birthdays, vacations, weddings, baby due dates and lots more • Add a widget to your home screen showing your favourite countdown • Get notifications when your countdowns end • Share your countdowns privately with your friends, even if they don't have the app • Create repeating countdowns, such as yearly countdowns for a birthday, or even a weekly countdown to Friday evening! • Got lots of countdowns? Add custom tags to them so you can see similar countdowns at once. Try creating a "Birthdays" tag! • Add notes to your countdowns, like birthday present ideas, or travel details • No ads! I really don't like ads in apps, so there are no ads and no data sharing at all in Countdown to Anything PREMIUM FEATURES • More widgets - add as many as you want, plus a widget showing a list of your next countdowns • 240+ extra icons for every occasion • Unlimited colours, plus a hex picker for when you need it to be just right • Get reminder notifications before a countdown ends, not just when it ends • Extra layout options, custom time units, and more Premium is available as a one-time lifetime purchase or a yearly subscription. You can try Premium free for 7 days to see if you like it. BUILT-IN COUNTDOWNS Countdown to Anything also has a huge selection of built-in countdowns so you can easily count down to major events. Built-in events include holidays like New Year's Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Easter Sunday, Halloween, St Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, and Chuseok, as well as sporting events including the World Cup and Olympics. ICONS There are icons for every occasion: vacations (including holidays, flights and cruises), concerts and festivals, movie and game releases, exams, anniversaries, parties, retirement, moving house, and hundreds more. In the unlikely event you can't find what you're looking for, contact me from the Settings screen in the app and I'll do my best to add a new icon for you! ABOUT ME Hi! I'm Gary, the developer behind Countdown to Anything. I handle the whole app myself, from development and design to support, bug fixes, and updates. I've built Countdown to Anything to be the kind of app I'd want to use: simple, useful and private. I hope you like it! ABOUT PURCHASES Premium is an optional upgrade, available as an annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Annual subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is tuned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period. You can manage your subscription on the Premium screen in the app, or in your iPhone's Settings app. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

New Years Eve Countdown4 screens
Countdown to Anything!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown to Anything! at 95% against New Years Eve Countdown's 40%. Countdown to Anything! also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (573 vs 2). New Years Eve Countdown's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. New Years Eve Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown to Anything! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown to Anything! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown to Anything! has 573 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of New Years Eve Countdown's written reviews are positive against 95% of Countdown to Anything!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Years Eve Countdown ships an update every 2 months, Countdown to Anything! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
New Years Eve Countdown versus Countdown to Anything!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew Years Eve CountdownCountdown to Anything!
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)4.8 (573 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews94.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2573 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuncan CuthbertsonJupli

Customer experience

New Years Eve Countdown

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Countdown to Anything!

All ratings571 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews376 reviews
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%

Bugs and requests

New Years Eve Countdown

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown to Anything!

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Countdowns randomly disappearing
  • App crashing on launch for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to subtract weekends from countdowns
  • Allow customizing countdown format (days vs weeks)
  • Provide more free icons and color options
  • Make widgets available in free version
  • Add ability to set reminders for countdowns

In-app purchases

1 purchases

New Years Eve Countdown

One-time1
  • New Years Eve Premium$0.99
2 purchases

Countdown to Anything!

Subscriptions1
  • Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium (Lifetime)$9.99

Questions

Is New Years Eve Countdown free?
New Years Eve Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown to Anything! free?
Countdown to Anything! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, New Years Eve Countdown or Countdown to Anything!?
Countdown to Anything! is rated higher. New Years Eve Countdown averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Countdown to Anything! averages 4.8 from 573 ratings.
Do New Years Eve Countdown or Countdown to Anything! have ads?
Neither New Years Eve Countdown nor Countdown to Anything! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Years Eve Countdown or Countdown to Anything!?
New Years Eve Countdown ships an update every 2 months, and Countdown to Anything! fortnightly. Most recently, New Years Eve Countdown was updated on November 10, 2026 and Countdown to Anything! on November 11, 2026.

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