Comparison

Reminder & Countdown Pro vs Countdown & Count Up Timer

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
Currently charting
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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 & Count Up Timer

Easily track important dates with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Never miss an anniversary, event, or milestone with home screen widgets and timely notifications. Personalize your tracking with custom backgrounds and text.

Highlights
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Customizable notifications
  • iCloud backup and restore
  • Precise moment tracking
  • Custom backgrounds and text
  • Social sharing
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How long until the day you’re waiting for? How long has it been since a moment worth remembering? Countdown & Count Up Timer makes important dates easy to follow. Count down to something you’re looking forward to, or see how much time has passed since a meaningful day. Add a birthday, anniversary, vacation, wedding, concert, exam, deadline, due date, seasonal event or personal milestone and let the app keep track of the time for you. You can also add a date from the past to see how long it has been since an important moment. Track the time since an anniversary, the day you got married, the start of a personal goal or any date you want to remember. Whether you are counting down to the future or counting up from the past, your most important dates stay together in one simple place. Create as many events as you like and choose how you want to see the time: years, months, weeks, days or hours. PERFECT FOR • Birthdays and anniversaries • Weddings and vacations • Trips and holidays • Concerts and special events • Exams and important deadlines • Pregnancy due dates • Personal goals and milestones • Seasonal events and special occasions • Remembering how long it has been since an important day KEY FEATURES • Countdown to future dates See exactly how much time is left until something you are waiting for. • Count up from past dates Track the time that has passed since a memorable moment. • Unlimited events Create as many countdowns and count-ups as you need. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets Keep your most important events visible without opening the app. • Daily notifications Get a daily notification at the time you choose showing the remaining or elapsed time. • Exact date and time Choose a specific time when a simple day count is not enough. • Flexible time display View the result in years, months, weeks, days or hours. • Custom photo backgrounds Use your own photos to make birthdays, weddings, trips and anniversaries feel more personal. • Adjustable text Customize the color and position of the text to suit your background. • Recurring events Set birthdays, anniversaries and other repeating dates to come back automatically. • Easy organization Use tags and date sorting to keep your events easy to find. • iCloud backup and restore Keep a backup of your important events and restore them when needed. • Sharing and Dark Mode Share your events easily and use the app comfortably in dark environments. Some dates are exciting because they are getting closer. Others matter because of how much time has already passed. Keep both kinds of moments close, and check them whenever you want.

Screenshots

Reminder & Countdown Pro4 screens
Countdown & Count Up Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countdown & Count Up Timer at Free against Reminder & Countdown Pro's $1.99. Reminder & Countdown Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (88% vs 63%). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Countdown & Count Up Timer is free to download; Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reminder & Countdown Pro against 4.7 for Countdown & Count Up Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.2K and 2.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Reminder & Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 63% of Countdown & Count Up Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, Countdown & Count Up Timer every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Reminder & Countdown Pro versus Countdown & Count Up Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReminder & Countdown ProCountdown & Count Up Timer
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings) — better4.7 (2.3K ratings)
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews — better63.5% of reviews
Number of ratings3.2K — better2.3K
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#52 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergey AstakhovYoji Shimobayashi

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 & Count Up Timer

All ratings2,313 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral3.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews326 reviews
Positive63.5%
Neutral12.3%
Negative24.2%

Bugs and requests

Reminder & Countdown Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Countdown & Count Up Timer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Countdown display issues after updates
  • App crashes when trying to access settings
  • Widget functionality not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to exclude weekends from countdowns
  • Option to pause/resume countdowns
  • Customizable notification settings for each event
  • Sync across devices

In-app purchases

None

Reminder & Countdown Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Countdown & Count Up Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reminder & Countdown Pro free?
Reminder & Countdown Pro costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown & Count Up Timer free?
Countdown & Count Up Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Countdown & Count Up Timer?
Reminder & Countdown Pro is rated higher. Reminder & Countdown Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while Countdown & Count Up Timer averages 4.7 from 2.3K ratings.
Do Reminder & Countdown Pro or Countdown & Count Up Timer have ads?
Countdown & Count Up Timer shows ads; Reminder & Countdown Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Reminder & Countdown Pro or Countdown & Count Up Timer?
Reminder & Countdown Pro ships an update every 9 days, and Countdown & Count Up Timer every 10 days. Most recently, Reminder & Countdown Pro was updated on September 23, 2026 and Countdown & Count Up Timer on September 23, 2026.

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