MyCountdown vs Countdown@
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyCountdown
Track upcoming events with a visually customizable countdown. Receive daily notifications and enjoy a modern interface with various display styles and widgets. Celebrate milestones as they arrive.
- Daily countdown notifications
- Customizable image backgrounds
- Number and flip view styles
- Today widget view
- Event celebration
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Countdown the date that you most waiting for, and decorate the view with your image you love. - Notification that count for every day. - Update look for iOS 7. - Styles: number / flip view - today widget view Celebrate when the time has come!
Countdown@
Easily track important life events with stylish countdown timers. Create custom events like vacations, birthdays, and holidays. View upcoming events with a convenient widget and even count up from past milestones.
- Create custom event countdowns
- Count up from past events
- Event timeline with diary and notes
- Widget for important events
- Stylish event tracking
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Countdown@ is a super easy to use countdown timer for the important events in your life. Count down to your next event: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more - in style! Features: • Create different types of events • Widget to view your most important events • Count up from past events • Timeline in every countdown event — diary and notes ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Countdown@ at 4.7 against MyCountdown's 3.3. Countdown@ also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (39K vs 4). MyCountdown's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (70% vs 37%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. MyCountdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown@ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of MyCountdown's written reviews are positive against 37% of Countdown@'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MyCountdown ships an update every 6 weeks, Countdown@ every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyCountdown | Countdown@ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (39K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews — better | 37.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 39K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | iReka Soft | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
MyCountdown
Countdown@
Bugs and requests
MyCountdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown@
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not displaying as customized
- Inability to delete past events
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set countdown as alarm
- Sync countdowns across devices
- More customization options for widget
- Allow multiple countdowns in widget
In-app purchases
MyCountdown
- Remove Ads!$0.99
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
Questions
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