Comparison

Countdown vs Keeps

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Countdown

Easily track important personal and global events with a user-friendly countdown timer. Set precise dates and times, receive timely alerts, and customize your countdowns with various themes and colors. Enjoy unlimited event tracking with a clean, minimalist design.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdown creation
  • Detailed time and date settings
  • Display days, hours, minutes, seconds remaining
  • Event day of the week information
  • Timely event reminders
  • Color and theme customization
  • Multilingual support
Features
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Every great moment is worth the wait — and Countdown makes the waiting half the fun. Create a beautiful countdown to any event and watch the days, hours, minutes and seconds tick down to the moments that matter most, from birthdays and holidays to vacations, weddings, exams and the big game. Whether you're counting down to Christmas, New Year, Halloween, an anniversary, a long-awaited trip, the World Cup, the Olympics or the release of your favorite movie, Countdown keeps every important date front and center, so you never lose track of what's coming next. WHY YOU'LL LOVE COUNTDOWN • Unlimited countdowns — create as many as you like, with no limits at all. • Precise timing — set the exact date and time of every event. • Two tabs — Upcoming counts down to the big day, Past counts up from it. • Full breakdown — see the days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining at a glance. • Day-of-the-week info — know which day your event lands on and plan ahead. • Timely reminders — get a gentle alert as your big moments approach. • Color customization — personalize each countdown with vibrant, eye-catching colors. • Beautiful and simple — a clutter-free design that puts your moments first. • Works offline — no internet connection needed to keep counting. • Light & dark themes — easy on the eyes, day or night. • 70+ languages — built for users around the world. GREAT FOR EVERY OCCASION • Personal: birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, new babies and reunions. • Holidays: Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Easter and more. • Travel: vacations, flights, road trips and long-awaited getaways. • Sport & shows: the World Cup, the Olympics, concerts, finals and premieres. • Life & work: exams, deadlines, due dates, paydays, retirements and launches. HOW IT WORKS 1. Add an event and set its date and time. 2. Pick a color and let the countdown begin. 3. Watch the time tick down — and get reminded when it's almost here. 4. When the moment passes, move it to Past and keep counting the days since. PERFECT FOR • Anyone who loves looking forward to something special. • Parents and couples marking family milestones. • Travelers counting sleeps until the next adventure. • Students and professionals tracking key dates and deadlines. COUNT UP THE DAYS SINCE Some dates aren't for waiting — they're for remembering. Move an event to the Past tab and its timer runs upward instead: see the days since your wedding, the weeks since your baby arrived, the months since a big move or the years since you first met. Anniversaries, milestones and precious memories keep counting, one second at a time. PLAN AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE Knowing exactly how long you have changes everything. With a clear countdown in your pocket, you can book the flights in time, buy the gift before it sells out, send the invitations early and walk into every big day fully prepared. No last-minute panic, no forgotten dates — just calm, joyful anticipation. A COUNTDOWN FOR EVERYONE From kids counting sleeps until their birthday to couples marking the days to their wedding, and from sports fans awaiting kickoff to teams shipping a big launch, Countdown brings a little extra excitement to whatever you're waiting for. There's a special kind of joy in anticipation, and Countdown helps you savor every second of it. Pin your most-awaited dates, share the excitement with friends and family, and turn ordinary waiting into a daily thrill. Countdown and event tracker: a countdown timer for birthdays, holidays, vacations and big days, showing the days, hours, minutes and seconds until Christmas, New Year, weddings, trips, exams, paydays and every event you simply can't wait for — then counting up the days since the moments you never want to forget. Download Countdown today and start counting down to the moments that make life special. Privacy Policy: https://www.shpavda.com/products/countdown/privacy/ Terms & Conditions: https://www.shpavda.com/products/countdown/terms/ios/

About

Keeps

This app acts as a digital notebook to remember personal details about people, important dates, and places. It allows you to record preferences, gift ideas, and memories in your own words, with options for voice input and integration with maps and contacts.

Highlights
  • Record personal details about people
  • Track important dates and anniversaries
  • Save and organize information about places
  • Voice input for notes
  • Trip planning assistance
  • Share destinations with friends
Features
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You always mean to remember. That your friend can't stand coriander. That your sister has wanted to see the northern lights since she was nine. That the little place by the market was the best meal of the whole trip. Keeps is a notebook for exactly those things. WRITE IT HOWEVER YOU'D SAY IT One sentence is enough. "Dad loves grilled fish, hates surprises, and wants to see the new museum." Keeps reads that and sorts it into what he loves, what he avoids, and what he'd like to try, then shows you the result before anything is kept. Nothing is saved until you say so, and your own words are kept exactly as you wrote them. Would rather talk? Tell it out loud instead. Nothing appears on screen while you speak, so you can finish your thought without watching words rewrite themselves. They arrive, whole, when you stop. Start a note from the People tab, a widget or Siri, without looking for the person first. THE PEOPLE Everyone gets a page: what they love, what they avoid, what would make a good gift, and the small promises you made. Add someone by choosing them from your contacts: their name, photo and a few details come across once, and nothing else is read. Keep the little facts too: where they live, what they do, their sizes, how you met, and anything else worth knowing, like a pet's name or a coffee order. Your closest people stay at the top. THE DAYS THAT MATTER Birthdays, anniversaries, the day you met, or a day you name yourself, like your first date. Each one can nudge you ahead of time, without spelling out the gift ideas where others might see them. They all gather under Coming up, on your Home and Lock Screen too, and every gift idea waits on one page, so the one you had in March is still there in November. Once you give it, mark it as given. THE PLACES Places opens on a map. Tap a place on it, say in a sentence how it was, and keep it. Or share a place to Keeps straight from Apple Maps or Google Maps. A destination holds everything you found there (the restaurant, the beach, the shop you'd go back to) across every visit, with the videos and links you saved about it. Two trips to the same city are two different things, so each trip keeps its own people and its own story. See one visit at a time, or all of it at once. Any place opens in the map app you use. PLANNING A TRIP Pick the days, who's coming and which places on which day. The plan reminds you what those people love and what they avoid, and suggests the places there you've been wanting to try. Keep what's good to know about the city and what not to forget before you leave, with a reminder the day before if you like. You can hand a whole destination to a friend as a file, with your tips. Your own notes are yours to include or leave out. WHERE IT ALL LIVES On your phone, and in your own iCloud so you don't lose it along with the phone. You can turn that off in Settings. No account to make, no ads, and your notes are read and sorted on the device. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Arabic, switchable inside the app.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
Keeps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Keeps at 100% against Countdown's 60%. Keeps also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (78 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

Both are free to download. Countdown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Keeps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Keeps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 78 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 100% of Keeps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 2 months, Keeps fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Countdown versus Keeps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownKeeps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (78 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHPAVDA, TOODoku Yapay Zeka Yazılım Teknoloji

Customer experience

Countdown

All ratings78 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

Keeps

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Ad-Free$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Ad-Free$7.991 Year
None

Keeps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keeps free?
Keeps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown or Keeps?
Keeps is rated higher. Countdown averages 4.7 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Keeps averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Countdown or Keeps have ads?
Countdown shows ads; Keeps does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or Keeps?
Countdown ships an update every 2 months, and Keeps fortnightly. Most recently, Countdown was updated on November 12, 2026 and Keeps on November 13, 2026.

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