Countdown widget vs Quietdays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown widget
Easily create and track upcoming life events with a stylish countdown timer. View your most important dates at a glance with a convenient widget. Also supports counting up elapsed time for past events.
- Create various event types
- Convenient widget for quick view
- Track elapsed time for past events
- Dark mode support
- User-friendly interface
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Countdown presents a user-friendly countdown timer for significant life events. Easily track the time until your upcoming Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more, all with a touch of style! Key Features: • Effortlessly create various event types • Convenient widget for a quick view of your most crucial events • Track elapsed time with the count-up feature for past events • Dark mode
Quietdays
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The countdown app with no ads, free basic widgets, free sync and no subscriptions. Count down to birthdays, trips, weddings, exams and Christmas, or count up the days since you met. Quietdays puts them on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch as beautiful cards, and keeps them in sync on all your devices. How many days until my birthday? Until Christmas? Until our vacation? How many days have we been together? Quietdays answers at a glance. WHY QUIETDAYS • No ads, ever. No pop-ups, banners or videos to watch. • Basic widgets are free: Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. • Syncs across your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with iCloud, free. Get a new phone and your events come back. • Pay once. Pro is a one-time purchase, never a subscription. • No tracking. No ad or third-party analytics SDKs. Beautiful cards Storybook, romance, photographic and pure typography styles with matching colors. Put the picture beside, below or behind your countdown. Count down together A full-screen countdown made for setting your phone down where everyone can see it. The final hour, the final minute and the last ten seconds build up with sound and light, and fireworks go off at midnight. Count in days, sleeps or even heartbeats. Put countdowns on your Lock Screen too: a full-width illustrated card or an always-on widget (Pro, free 3-day trial). When the holiday is over, it simply starts counting to the next one. Lock Screen wallpapers with Pro. Widgets and Apple Watch Small and medium Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, and watch face complications with a progress ring. Updates at midnight and never drifts a day across time zones. The new Multiple Events widget shows two at once on a small card, and a countdown widget can rotate through several events (Pro). Count down, count up, repeat Yearly, monthly, weekly or every N days, including lunar dates. Reminders on the day or days before, at the time you choose. Calendar and holidays A month view with your events, every 100th day, anniversaries and the public holidays of your region. Tap a holiday to count down to it. Share the moment 10 share layouts, from boarding pass to postcard, as an image or a short video with music. On day 100, day 1,000 and anniversaries, make a keepsake poster. All free. Never lose a day Free iCloud sync, a daily backup kept for 30 days, and backup files you can save anywhere. No account needed. Perfect for: birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, weddings, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year, exams, graduation, baby due date, retirement, concerts, moving day and more. QUIETDAYS PRO (one-time purchase) Multiple Events and rotating widgets, your own photos on cards and widgets, every template, 4K wallpapers, cloud backup, and share images without the Quietdays mark. Privacy Policy: https://quietdays.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown widget at none against Quietdays's 1. Quietdays's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, device support 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. Quietdays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown widget ships an update fortnightly, Quietdays every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown widget | Quietdays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ruslan Dauletkaliuly | 深圳市智联创网络科技有限公司 |
In-app purchases
Countdown widget
No in-app purchases
Quietdays
- Quietdays Pro$5.99









