Countdown vs Wallet Libre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track important upcoming events with a customizable home screen widget. Set reminders for birthdays, holidays, and personal milestones. Relive past events with a count-up feature.
- Home screen widget for event tracking
- Customizable backgrounds and colors
- Count-up feature for past events
- Organize events by date
- Unlimited event creation
- Event notifications
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Introducing Countdown: Widget - your go-to, user-friendly countdown timer and reminder app, designed to keep track of the significant moments in your life, all for free. Design your own Home Screen widget! A variety of background for you to choose from Allows you to easily create your own widget. Key Features Include: - Enjoy the convenience of our Widget on your Home Screen to always keep an eye on key events (Available as a Premium feature for iOS 14 users). - Customize your countdown background with any color of your choice. - Relive past events with our count-up feature on each countdown page. - Organize your events by date, from the nearest to the farthest. - Unlimited event creation to ensure you never miss out on anything. - Get notified at the moment of your event. Celebrate everything that matters: Vacations, Birthdays, Holidays, Parties, and notable occasions like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Valentines, Weddings, Anniversaries, Births, Graduations, and more. Whether it's for a Pregnancy, a Trip, moving to a New Home, Retirement, a favorite Game, achieving Goals, attending Concerts, and much more, Countdown has you covered. Download now!
Wallet Libre
Transform physical cards into digital passes for your device's wallet. Capture your card's barcode, and the app reconstructs it for seamless scanning. It can even suggest titles, colors, and logos for a personalized touch.
- Photograph and digitize card barcodes
- Supports various barcode formats (Codabar, QR, Code 128, etc.)
- Automatic suggestion of title, colors, and logo
- Location-based pass suggestions on lock screen
- Customizable pass details (member number, expiry)
- Privacy-focused with no account or sign-in required
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Wallet Libre turns a card you already carry into a pass in Apple Wallet. Photograph the barcode, check the number it read, and add it. That is the whole flow — everything after it is optional. WHY IT EXISTS Most library cards use Codabar, a barcode format Apple Wallet has no support for. Wallet Libre draws the bars itself, at the same width they are printed on the card, so the pass scans where the plastic did. QR, Code 128, PDF417 and Aztec are handled natively when your card carries one. Some formats cannot be rebuilt into a pass at all — EAN, UPC, Code 39, Code 93 and ITF among them — and the app tells you so when it reads one, rather than quietly shipping a barcode that will not scan. LET IT FILL IN THE REST Ask it to, and Wallet Libre reads the photo of your card and suggests a title, colors drawn from the card itself, and the issuer's logo. Nothing is applied without you seeing it first, and you can skip the whole step and type the details yourself. IT SHOWS UP WHERE YOU USE IT Give a pass locations and Apple Wallet offers it on your lock screen when you arrive — no app to open, nothing to search for. Wallet Libre finds the places for you: from a built-in directory of US public libraries that needs no network round trip, or from a map search anywhere else. You choose which ones stay. Apple Wallet carries up to ten per pass, and one tap picks the ten nearest you. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOUR CARD Choose the colors, or take them from the photo. Use a letter or an emoji where there is no logo to find. Add the fields printed on your own card — a member number, a join date, an expiry. PRIVACY There is no account and no sign-in, and there is nothing to create. Apple requires every pass to be signed with a registered developer certificate, and a certificate cannot ship inside an app. So the card's details go to the signing server, are signed, and are discarded before the response is sent. They are never stored and never logged. The optional fill is the only other thing that leaves your iPhone: when you ask for it, the photo of your card and the text read from it are sent to be interpreted, and are not kept afterwards. Tap the other button and nothing is ever sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wallet Libre at every 5 days against Countdown's every 10 months. Wallet Libre also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Countdown against 5.0 for Wallet Libre. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Countdown ships an update every 10 months, Wallet Libre every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Wallet Libre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chun Chih Lin | Hsin-Yao Lin |
Customer experience
Countdown
Wallet Libre
In-app purchases
Countdown
No in-app purchases
Wallet Libre
No in-app purchases
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