Countdown Widget & Photos vs Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Widget & Photos
This app helps you visualize time to upcoming events or track time since past milestones. Customize countdowns with personalized backgrounds and add them as widgets to your Home and Lock Screen. Receive smart reminders for approaching dates and share your countdowns with others.
- Countdown and count-up timers
- Customizable Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Personalized backgrounds and themes
- Smart event reminders
- Easy countdown sharing
- Ad-free experience
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Create a photo countdown for a birthday or trip, or count days since a milestone. Home & Lock Screen widgets. No ads. One-time Premium, no subscription. From vacations and birthdays to anniversaries, goals, and deadlines, stay excited about what’s next, and celebrate how far you’ve come with customizable countdown and count-up widgets on iPhone. Free: • Countdown & Count-Up: days until an event, or days since a milestone • Home, Lock Screen, and Extra Large widgets, plus Live Activities on Dynamic Island • Card looks and Polaroid frames; birthday and holiday templates • Import events from Calendar • Reminders as the day gets closer, and confetti when it arrives • Easy sharing Premium (one-time unlock, no subscription): • Unlimited events • Extra looks, fonts, photos, and templates. Preview in the editor before you save • Skip weekends so only workdays count until a trip or deadline • Watermark-free sharing • All future updates included What people say “I use this app whenever I have a vacation or something exciting coming up.” “This one truly stands out for its beautiful iOS widgets and easy-to-use interface.” No ads. No subscriptions. Download free and start your first countdown. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Countdown Widget
This app helps you track important dates like birthdays and anniversaries by displaying countdowns directly on your Home Screen. It offers customizable reminders, the ability to count up from milestones, and iCloud synchronization across devices.
- Home Screen countdown widgets
- Customizable reminders
- Repeating event tracking
- Count up from milestones
- Personalized event themes
- Calendar import
- iCloud sync
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Never miss the dates that matter. Birthdays, anniversaries, trips and deadlines have a way of sneaking up on you. Countful keeps every important date right on your Home Screen, counting down the days so you always have time to prepare. WHY PEOPLE LOVE COUNTFUL • Countdown widgets: See days, hours and minutes left on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. No need to open the app. • Reminders that arrive in time: Get notified days, hours or minutes before the big day. Snooze any reminder for an hour with one tap. • Repeating events: Birthdays and anniversaries repeat every year automatically, and your reminders keep coming every time. • Count up too: Track days since a milestone, a habit or a special moment. • Make it yours: Add your own photo, pick a gradient, a pattern and an emoji for every event. • Import from Calendar: Bring in the dates you already have instead of typing them by hand. • Tags and search: Group events by tag and find anything in seconds. • Archive: Hide past or paused events without losing them. Archived events stay quiet until you bring them back. • iCloud sync: Your countdowns stay up to date on all your devices. PERFECT FOR Birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, vacations, trips, holidays, Christmas, New Year, exams, deadlines, due dates, concerts and every day you're looking forward to. COUNTFUL PRO Unlock unlimited events, Calendar import and every widget style with a monthly, yearly or one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://indiegoodies.com/countdown/terms Privacy Policy: https://indiegoodies.com/countdown/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Countdown Widget at 4.9 against Countdown Widget & Photos's 4.0. Countdown Widget also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Countdown Widget & Photos's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 Widget & Photos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown Widget sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Countdown Widget & Photos's written reviews are positive against 86% of Countdown Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Countdown Widget & Photos ships an update every 10 days, Countdown Widget every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Widget & Photos | Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Costhap | Khuong Pham |
Customer experience
Countdown Widget & Photos
Countdown Widget
In-app purchases
Countdown Widget & Photos
- Lifetime Unlock$2.99
Countdown Widget
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$5.991 Year
- Discount lifetime access$3.99
- Lifetime access$9.99
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