Countdown Star vs Token Stack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Star
Track time until or since important life events. Set custom timers for birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and more. Personalize with your own photos and share progress with friends.
- Add custom events
- Customize event visuals
- Apple Watch display
- Today Widget integration
- Set exact event times
- Adjust time units
- Share event progress
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Countdown Star is the best way to countdown to — and count up from — all of your favorite events. Countdown to birthdays, holidays, an upcoming vacation, a wedding, the New Year, parties, sporting events, concerts and more. Count up from anniversaries, the day you were born, and other special events in the past. * How many seconds until your next birthday? * How many months since you were born? * How many days until you graduate from college? * How many hours until your anniversary? * How much time is left until your vacation starts? * How many days until Christmas? * How many minutes until your party begins? * How much time is left until your baby's due date? Countdown Star is the countdown app that lets you choose which events to add, then keeps them in sync across all of your devices. Features: * iCloud Sync — events and wallpapers sync automatically across all your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch devices * Celebration Animations — choose Confetti, Fireworks, Balloons, Stars, or Lasers when your countdown reaches zero * Repeating Events — annual events automatically advance to the next year so you never have to update them * Home Screen Widgets — Small, Medium, and Large widgets let you glance at your countdowns without opening the app * Apple Watch — view your events right on your wrist * Add Your Own Events — add as many events as you like * Custom Wallpapers — choose from 15+ built-in wallpapers or use your own photos * Time Zone Support — set each event in any time zone with localized city names * Sort and Search — sort by date, title, or your own custom order; events are sectioned into Countdown and Count Up groups * Favorites and Notifications — mark events as favorites to receive a notification when their countdown reaches zero * Interactive Slider — instantly switch between seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years to see your countdown exactly how you want it * Customizable Timer — choose timer position (Top, Middle, or Bottom), show or hide weeks, and toggle the leading zero * Multiple App Icons — personalize the app icon on your Home Screen Note: Countdown Star is available as a free version (with ads and an optional Remove Ads purchase) and as a paid ad-free version.
Token Stack
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Stop carrying a box of token cards to every game. Token Stack is a token tracker for trading card game players. Every token ever printed — 898 distinct tokens across 3,131 printings and 244 sets — is in your pocket, ready to put into play from your phone. THE BOARD Search for a token and put it into play. Stack multiples into a single pile, tap and untap them, and track counters as the game moves. Put a +1/+1 counter on just one of three Soldiers and the pile splits, exactly as it would on the table. Power and toughness update live. Counters like +1/+0 and -0/-1 are handled properly, not just the symmetric ones, and a token pushed to zero toughness is flagged so you can clear it. TABLE MODE Lay your phone flat and it becomes the token. One card fills the screen at the largest size it can, with the quantity, counters and abilities readable from across the table. The screen stays awake, brightness goes to full, and the chrome hides with a tap so nothing sits on top of the art. Turn the card to face your opponent while the controls stay the right way up for you. YOUR LIBRARY Pin the tokens you make often and reach them in a tap. Or build a deck: pick the release you own — any of 193, including preconstructed decks — and it fills with every token that release shipped with. Where a token was printed with more than one art, choose the one you actually own. WORKS WITHOUT SIGNAL The whole token database is built into the app, so search works with no connection at all. Card art downloads once and is kept, and anything you pin or add to a deck is stored on the device — so your tokens work at a shop with bad wifi. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING, NO ADS Nothing is collected, nothing is uploaded, and there is nothing to sign into. Your boards and decks stay on your phone. Token Stack is an independent, fan-made tool. It is not affiliated with, approved by, or endorsed by any card game publisher. Card names and artwork remain the property of their respective owners; full attribution and the fan content notice are in the app's Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Token Stack at none against Countdown Star's 1. Token Stack also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). Countdown Star's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Countdown Star sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Token Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown Star ships an update fortnightly, Token Stack daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Star | Token Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (217K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 217K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Joseph Merrill | Amir Hossain Moazzami |
Bugs and requests
Countdown Star
Reported bugs
5 issues- Widget not displaying events
- Wallpaper not saving
- Countdown off by one day
- Notifications not working as expected
- Crashes and glitches after updates
Requested features
6 requests- Add weeks option
- Allow multiple countdowns on one screen
- Provide Apple Watch complications
- Add ability to export/backup data
- Improve wallpaper customization
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- Add option for annual/recurring events
Token Stack
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown Star
- Remove Ads$1.99
Token Stack
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Countdown Star free?
Is Token Stack free?
Do Countdown Star or Token Stack have ads?
Which is updated more often, Countdown Star or Token Stack?
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