Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Countdowns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Countdowns
Track upcoming events or past milestones with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Visualize your time with beautiful widgets and sync across all your Apple devices. Organize events with lists and receive custom notifications.
- Customizable countdown and count-up timers
- Gorgeous, colorful widgets
- Unlimited number of timers
- Repeating timers
- Calendar event import
- iCloud sync
- Custom notifications
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Countdowns helps you count down to something you're looking forward to, whether that's a wedding, birthday, or new iPhone! Need to count up from it instead? No problem! Designed to be more than a timer app, Countdowns is great for keeping tabs on how long it is until something, or how long it is since it happened. Count up from the last time you had a cigarette and down to your next cookie — if it happened in the past or is happening in the future, Countdowns keeps track of the time so you don't need to. Countdowns can keep your timers running no matter where you are. Available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, Countdowns can sync your timers between your devices so you're always up to speed. As a free download, Countdowns offers the following features: - Gorgeous, colorful widgets on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. - An unlimited number of countdowns. - Repeating timers which are perfect for birthdays and similar events. - Siri & Shortcuts integrations. - Support for importing events from calendars, reminders, and contacts. - Multiple unit options (days, weeks, etc.) and icons to make your countdown your very own. - Dark mode. - And more! An optional monthly, annual, or one-time in-app purchase unlocks additional features, including: - iCloud support to keep all of your timers in sync across iPhones, iPads, and Macs. - A compact display mode so you can see more timers at once. - Lists so you can more easily organize your timers — put all of your birthday timers in a list, for example. - Directional indicators so you always know whether a timer is counting up or down. - Custom notifications and sounds so you'll never miss a timer again. - Archive function that saves old timers. Countdowns subscriptions can be canceled at any time, but will renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the next payment is due. For more information, see our privacy policy & terms of use: https://www.countdowns-app.com/policies
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Countdowns at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. Countdowns also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume and iOS requirement 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
Countdowns is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Countdowns sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Reminder & Countdown Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reminder & Countdown Pro against 4.7 for Countdowns. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.2K and 9.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Reminder & Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 78% of Countdowns's.
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Countdowns every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Reminder & Countdown Pro | Countdowns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (9.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 78.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K | 9.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #49 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergey Astakhov | Shayes Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Reminder & Countdown Pro
Countdowns
Bugs and requests
Reminder & Countdown Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdowns
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdowns not displaying correctly
- Sync issues between devices
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Allow reordering of countdowns
- Improve recurring event handling
- Add more customization options
- Provide full-screen countdown view
- Implement more notification options
In-app purchases
Reminder & Countdown Pro
No in-app purchases
Countdowns
- Countdowns Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Countdowns Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Lifetime Unlock$19.99
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