Comparison

Risuto for AniList vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Risuto for AniList

This app is a comprehensive companion for tracking anime and manga progress. It offers a beautiful and fast interface to manage lists, view airing schedules, and engage with the community. Discover new series and explore detailed media information.

Highlights
  • Powerful list management with swipe updates
  • Live Activities and home screen widgets
  • Airing calendar with episode notifications
  • In-app forums and community discussions
  • Advanced search and discovery tools
  • Comprehensive media and character details
  • Rich statistics and insights
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Risuto is the ultimate AniList companion for iOS, designed for anime and manga enthusiasts who want a beautiful, fast, and feature-rich tracking experience. • POWERFUL LIST MANAGEMENT Swipe to quickly update episodes and chapters as you finish them. Sort your lists with multiple options. Full editing capabilities let you change watch status, scores, volumes, progress, and more with an intuitive interface. • LIVE ACTIVITIES & WIDGETS Track your binge sessions with Live Activities on your lock screen and Dynamic Island. Add home screen widgets for quick access to your stats and currently watching list. • AIRING CALENDAR & NOTIFICATIONS View your watching anime in a beautiful calendar layout. Get iOS notifications when new episodes air so you never miss a release. • FORUMS & DISCUSSIONS Browse forum threads, participate in discussions, and read collapsible comment threads. Stay connected with the AniList community without leaving the app. • SOCIAL NOTIFICATIONS View all your AniList social notifications right in the app. Stay engaged with your anime community. • ADVANCED SEARCH & DISCOVERY Filter by genre, format, season, year, and more with advanced search. Browse trending series, current and upcoming seasons, and explore recommendations tailored to your taste. • COMPREHENSIVE MEDIA DETAILS View full descriptions, trailers, reviews, character rosters, staff information, statistics, and related media. See duration, time remaining, alternative titles, and more. Tap cover art for stunning full-screen HD views. • CHARACTER & STAFF PROFILES Explore detailed pages for your favorite voice actors, animators, and characters. View their roles, works, and contributions across the anime industry. • RICH STATISTICS & INSIGHTS Access your complete AniList statistics with beautiful graphs and breakdowns. View your contribution history, genre distributions, watch time, and more, all optimized for mobile with an enhanced UI. • SOCIAL FEATURES Follow your friends' activity through the Overview feed. See what they're watching, reading, and discussing. Enhanced markdown rendering makes posts more beautiful and interactive with tappable links. • CUSTOMIZATION Choose from 8 custom app icons and expanded theme colors to personalize your experience. Customize your tab bar to show what matters most to you, and hide what doesn't. Risuto brings the full power of AniList.co to your iPhone with a native, fast, and beautiful interface designed specifically for iOS.

About

Countdown

Features
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COUNTDOWN Enter an atmospheric fictional countdown designed as a cinematic horror entertainment experience for iPhone and iPad. Countdown creates a persistent, locally generated deadline and displays the remaining years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds in real time. Its minimal full-screen interface, pure black presentation, heartbeat audio, optional haptic feedback, and dynamic color changes transform a simple timer into an immersive experience. CORE FEATURES • Atmospheric Feedback: Enable an optional heartbeat synchronized with visible second changes and haptic feedback for interactions and countdown milestones. • Dynamic Countdown: Follow a persistent fictional timeline that updates every second and resumes between app launches. • Last Words: Create, edit, pin, delete, and share private personal notes stored locally on your device. • Local Event Logs: Review a timestamped history of meaningful countdown milestones, notification changes, shared snapshots, sound settings, and vibration settings. • Native Snapshot Sharing: Generate a clean countdown image at your device's screen resolution and share it through the native iOS share sheet. • Offline Experience: Access the countdown, Last Words, logs, and settings without creating an account or maintaining an internet connection. • Permission-Aware Notifications: Receive independent local reminders 24 hours after your latest session begins and one second before the assigned deadline. • Responsive Design: Experience safe-area-aware layouts built for portrait and landscape use across supported iPhone and iPad devices. • Simple Settings: Control heartbeat sound, haptic feedback, and local notifications independently. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Countdown requires no account, login, purchase, or subscription. It contains no advertising, analytics, or cross-app tracking. Countdown data, Last Words, event logs, and settings are processed and stored locally on your device. OPEN SOURCE Countdown is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3. Explore the source code at countdown.murasanca.com. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER Countdown is a fictional entertainment experience. It cannot predict, calculate, or represent any person's actual lifespan, health, safety, death, or future.

Screenshots

Risuto for AniList4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown at none against Risuto for AniList's 4. Countdown also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Risuto for AniList sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Risuto for AniList versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRisuto for AniListCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB33 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBatson SealesMurat Sancak

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Risuto for AniList

One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Huge Tip$19.99
None

Countdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Risuto for AniList free?
Risuto for AniList is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Risuto for AniList or Countdown have ads?
Neither Risuto for AniList nor Countdown shows ads.

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