Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs CountDown Widget

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

Head to head
About

Reminder & Countdown Pro

Organize tasks, projects, and events with a distraction-free interface. Customize alerts, icons, and backgrounds to suit your needs. Sync across devices and secure your data with biometric authentication.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free task management
  • Customizable event alerts
  • Icon, background, and sound customization
  • Date, time, and repetition settings
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Biometric app locking
  • iOS 14 home screen widgets
Features
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Reminder Pro is designed to manage your tasks, projects, and anything else you want to keep track of in really easy way taking away distraction and various shiny things that often lead us off course of whatever it is we’re trying to do. Reminder Pro highlights: ▸ Specify the event title. ▸ Assign default or custom category. ▸ Adjust icon, background, sound, time of alerts, font and text color. ▸ Set up date and time, duration, repetition, and units of countdown time. ▸ Add an optional description. ▸ Sort events by date, title, category or custom. ▸ Show or hide icons of the events. ▸ Set up events default values. ▸ Manage categories of the events. ▸ Import data from Address book, iCal, Reminders. ▸ Sync events between devices via iCloud. ▸ Show a badge number on the app’s icon. ▸ Switch between the old UI and the new UI. ▸ Locking / Unlocking the app using Touch & Face ID. ▸ IOS 14 home screen widgets. ▸ Run in the background. Information on events comes in a nicely-wrapped card which you can create by yourself, just open an event and swipe left or right to pick a screen and arrange custom boxes to fit your needs. Additionally, the app is complemented with excellent sharing options which give you an opportunity to share your reminders with the world via Email, Facebook, Twitter and even more.

About

CountDown Widget

This app helps you build and maintain positive habits and track your goals. It provides countdowns for important events and reminders to keep you on track. You can also record memories and share special moments with loved ones.

Highlights
  • Habits Creator
  • Events Tracker
  • Habits Tracker with Reminders
  • Share Special Moments
  • Days, Months, Hours Countdown
  • Repeatable Events and Habits
  • Widgets for Event Reminders
Features
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CountDown Habit Tracker is a free and easy App . It helps you create and maintain good habits, allowing you to achieve your long-term goals. Easy for tracking moments and your daily habits. Build a routine of positive and good habits. Track your goals and daily task. Countdown will always remind you for new and Upcoming Habits and Tasks ,so that you will never miss any important moments of your life. HERE'S what it include. HABITS CREATOR Create a positive daily habits and routine. EVENTS TRACKER Countdowns for all your upcoming and old events. HABITS TRACKER Track your habits with reminders and notification. SHARE MOMENTS Share your Special moments with friends and family. DAYS TRACKER Count down days, months, weekly, Hours to your events. REPEATABLE EVENTS Setup recurring events and habits which will repeat again after expire . UI EXPERIENCE Beautiful gradients and animation UI experience. NOTIFICATIONS Set notification which will reminds you to your events and habits SHORTCUTS Access Countdown and daily habit from Shortcuts. WIDGETS Beautiful Widgets. It will show you days remaining for your events and habits. RECORD MEMORIES Write down memories for your Moments and daily habits. THEMES Dark and Light Themes which ever suits you. And so much more. Always stay productive and feel positive for your goals and daily habits. We always working on adding new features. We will love hearing your feedback or any suggestion or feature request. Download CountDown - Habit Tracker App.

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
CountDown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CountDown Widget at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. CountDown Widget also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.2 vs 16.0). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (88% vs 62%). On ads 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

CountDown Widget is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. CountDown Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Reminder & Countdown Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reminder & Countdown Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reminder & Countdown Pro has 3.2K ratings behind it against 165, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Reminder & Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 62% of CountDown Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, CountDown Widget monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus CountDown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProCountDown Widget
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better4.5 (165 ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better61.8% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better165
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#174 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.014.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovAmit Verma

Customer experience

Reminder & Countdown Pro

All ratings3,217 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews352 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative6.8%

CountDown Widget

All ratings165 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral8.8%
Negative29.4%

Bugs and requests

Reminder & Countdown Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

CountDown Widget

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Can’t sync with iwatch
  • App seems bugged
  • Keeps deleting my event
  • Deletes date every few days
  • Doesn’t work with new update
Show 8 more
  • Countdowns don’t update widgets
  • Widget countdowns do not update
  • Annual repeat option missing
  • Cannot add day event with no time
  • UI not intuitive
  • Widget shows deadline, not countdown
  • App closes when inputting date
  • Purchase not recognized immediately

Requested features

3 requests
  • See countdown on widget
  • Add annual repeat option
  • Add day event with no time

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

CountDown Widget

One-time1
  • Countdown Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CountDown Widget free?
CountDown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or CountDown Widget?
Reminder & Countdown Pro is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while CountDown Widget averages 4.5 from 165 ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or CountDown Widget have ads?
Neither Reminder & Countdown Pro nor CountDown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or CountDown Widget?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and CountDown Widget monthly. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on September 29, 2026 and CountDown Widget on September 20, 2026.

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