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

Design personalized countdown and count-up widgets for any event. Customize with themes, styles, and app icons. Track birthdays, holidays, vacations, and more with aesthetic looks and iCloud sync. Supports various widget sizes and modes.

Highlights
  • Custom countdown and count-up widgets
  • Multiple widget styles and themes
  • iOS Lock Screen and Standby widgets
  • Customizable app icons and fonts
  • Add personal photos
  • iCloud sync
  • Count up from past events
Features
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Create Custom Countdown or Count up widget with lots of themes, styles and App Icons. Count down to your next event: Birthday, Vacation, Holiday, Thanksgiving, Party, Halloween, Christmas, and lots more in Aesthetic looks. Create Multiple widget Features Include. • iOS 26 Standby Widget. • iOS 26 LockScreen Widget & Transparent Widget. • Multiple App Icons. • Transparent Widget. • Variety of Widget Style & Theme • Watch App & iCloud sync • Count up from past events • Stylish Fonts. • Beautiful colour , gradient Presets. • Add your Own Photos. • Light & Dark modes. • Supports all size of widgets. No Ads. Add your Custom widget with ease and edit later in no time. Upcoming version will include Apple watch supports and more themes. Download Now New Countdown Widget and Enjoy!!! Offers auto-renewing unlimited-access subscription options. $9.99/Year as Annually Subscription. These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your iTune account, and your account will be charged within 24-hour to the end of the current period .Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your iTunes store after purchase.Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. Terms of use: https://motivateapps.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://motivateapps.com/privacyClean.html

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). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and 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 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. 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. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.2K and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 88% and 88% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Countdown widget weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 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 (1.3K ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews88.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.2K — better1.3K
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.016
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB36 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 ratings1,256 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.6%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews323 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.4%

Bugs and requests

Reminder & Countdown Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown widget

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Countdown widget not working on lock screen
  • Countdown based on EST instead of user's timezone

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Sync with calendars
  • Show hours, minutes, and seconds in countdown

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Countdown widget

Subscriptions1
  • Countdown Pro.$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Countdown Pro.$8.99
  • Countdown Pro.$12.99
  • Countdown Pro.$14.99

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 1.3K 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 weekly. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on September 29, 2026 and Countdown widget on September 30, 2026.

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