Countdown Star vs Squishiverse

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 * Compatible with iPhone Duo — Countdown Star fits the outer and inner displays, open or closed, and when partially open like a book * 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.

Squishiverse is a place for a child to keep track of their squishy toys. Take a picture of each one, give it a name, rate how it squishes, and tag what it looks, feels, sounds and smells like. Made for ages 9 to 11. WHAT IT DOES WITH YOUR CHILD'S PICTURES AND WORDS The camera is the only way to add a picture. The app cannot open the photo library, and never asks to. Any face the phone finds gets covered up before the picture is saved. The phone paints a solid block over it, nothing is uploaded to do it, and a block cannot be undone the way pixelation sometimes can. The picture is shrunk to at most 1600 pixels and re-saved from scratch, which drops where it was taken, when, and on which phone. The original is not kept. There is no account and no sign-up, and no server of ours. The collection is stored on the phone and, if the phone is signed in to iCloud, copied to your family's own iCloud account. The notes your child writes stay on the phone, in a separate place that is not connected to iCloud at all. No ads, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no code from any company other than Apple. SHOWING IT TO A FRIEND Sharing is off when the app is installed. The invite button is not on the screen until a grown-up turns sharing on, past a question written out in words rather than digits. Invitations go to named people, one at a time: your child picks a friend from Contacts or types a phone number or email address, the app checks that an Apple Account uses it, and gives back a link to send. A forwarded link does not let anyone else in. Nothing is searchable or public. A friend can send back two things: a reaction from a fixed set of six symbols, or a trade offer. There is no chat and no message box anywhere in the app. Trading is its own switch, also off until a grown-up turns it on. There is no money and no prices. A friend offers up to three of theirs for one of your child's, your child says yes or no, and any real swap happens between two families. Notifications are off until somebody asks for them, and that switch is behind the grown-up question too. They arrive batched into one message about a minute later. WHAT A CHILD DOES WITH IT Adds a squishy in five short steps. Only the name is needed; every other step can be skipped. Rates it on eleven things: overall, satisfying, squish, softness, stretchiness, texture, sound, smell, cuteness, tough and rarity, with half stars. Tags type, filling, colors, size, texture, sound, smell, and where it came from. Picks a number one and a top five, keeps notes that are theirs alone, and sees what they collect most on the Stats screen. Looks at the whole collection as a grid, searches it, and filters it. Points friends at one squishy to say "look at this one". No words go with it. FOR THE GROWN-UP Notifications, sharing, trading and saving a copy sit on one page behind one question, a sum written out in words. Saving a copy writes the whole collection to a file and puts one back; it is behind the question because that file includes the notes. Every friend's collection has a "Tell a grown-up" button, which explains how to remove that friend's share and offers to write us an email. Two things worth hearing from us rather than finding out. Face detection finds most faces, not every face: one in profile, partly hidden, very small or in a reflection can be missed. Turning the sharing switch back off stops new invitations, but it does not take back access already given. Privacy policy: https://mayiborrowyourcalculatorplease.github.io/squishiverse/privacy.html Questions, from parents or anyone else: fullcountstattracker+squishiverse@gmail.com