Comparison

Pinning vs CountDaysNow

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

Head to head
About

Pinning

Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.

Highlights
  • Event countdown and count-up
  • Calendar event syncing
  • Birthday and anniversary tracking
  • Event organization with notebooks
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • iCloud collaboration
  • Recurring event notifications
Features
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Pinning keeps the days that matter in view. Count down to trips, birthdays, deadlines and anniversaries, or count up from the moments you want to remember, all in one beautiful timeline. COUNT DOWN, OR COUNT UP • See how long until any date, or how long it’s been • Show time in days, weeks, months or years, the way you think about it • Multi-day events, like trips and conferences, show while they’re happening • Repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or on a schedule of your own BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES • See the age someone turns and the years you’re celebrating • Import birthdays from Contacts, with their photos • Supports the Chinese lunar calendar ORGANIZED YOUR WAY • Group events into notebooks, add tags, and star the ones that matter most • Give every event a symbol, an emoji or your own image • Find anything in a moment with Quick Find SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE • Share a notebook with family and friends over iCloud and plan together • Share any event as a beautiful image NEVER MISS A DAY • Get reminded on the day, or days, weeks or a month before, at the time you choose • See your calendar events and reminders with due dates next to your countdowns • Rewind brings back what happened a month or a year ago today ALWAYS AT A GLANCE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Add an event right from Control Center • Siri and Shortcuts support • Apple Watch app with complications • A native Mac app EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your events sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. There’s no account to create, and your events stay in your iCloud. PINNING PRO Try everything free for 7 days. After that, the free plan keeps 7 events. Pinning Pro unlocks: • Unlimited events • Calendars in your timeline • Scheduled reminders • Importing birthdays from Contacts One purchase works across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or buy it once for life, each with or without Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://pinning.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy

About

CountDaysNow

Features
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Plan backwards from the dates that matter. Countdown Plan gives any event its own preparation steps, such as renew the passport 30 days before a trip or order the cake 7 days before a birthday, and shows what is late, due today, due in the next 7 days and done across all your events. Each step is due a set number of days before its event. Change the event date and every step moves with it; a repeating event starts each new cycle with a fresh plan. Countdown Plan is free, works on-device and needs no account. Daily Focus saves one private Since / Today / Ahead choice each day and preserves that dated trail as milestones change. No ads, no subscription, no account. One purchase unlocks everything for good. • Ahead · Today · Since CountDaysNow keeps future, current and past events in three clear views, with precise day counts and a date calculator for adding, subtracting or comparing dates. • Events, categories and archive Create and edit events, organize them into categories, search quickly and archive milestones without losing their history. • Recurrence, reminders and Calendar Set repeating events, including an optional end date, schedule reminders and import only the Calendar events you choose. • Widgets, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Put any event on Home Screen widgets in every size, including iPad Extra Large, keep a live countdown running in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, and let the Next 3 widget show your three closest dates at once. Apple Watch stays useful offline. • Milestone alerts and 15 calendars A gentle nudge arrives 7, 3 and 1 day before, on the day itself, at day 100 and on every anniversary. Any event can show a second calendar beside the Gregorian date: Chinese lunar, Japanese, Hebrew, Persian, Indian, Islamic, Buddhist and more. • 100 skins and share cards Browse all 100 countdown styles before unlocking them, each with its own palette and layout, then export a share card as a square, portrait or story image. • iCloud, shared countdowns and safe updates Events stay in step across your iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud, a single countdown can be shared with other CountDaysNow users and updated together, and a local snapshot is written before every update so nothing goes missing. Free The free edition supports up to 3 active events, 3 categories and 1 reminder for each event, plus one selected event widget. Archived events remain available. One-time Lifetime Pro A single Lifetime Pro purchase—never a subscription—unlocks unlimited events and categories; the complete gallery of 100 exclusive skins; advanced recurrence, reminders and calendars; every widget and the full Apple Watch experience; Badge, photo backgrounds, Face ID, iCloud and JSON backup, and high-resolution sharing. How do iCloud sync and shared countdowns work? With Lifetime Pro, optional iCloud sync keeps events and categories up to date across your devices through your private Apple CloudKit database. Share Countdown sends only the selected event’s title, note, target date, calendar system, time zone, all-day setting, recurrence, symbol and color to the CountDaysNow users you invite; reminders, categories, the Calendar source identifier, favorite and archive status, photo backgrounds and every other event remain private. Sync also carries the technical event identifier, created and updated timestamps, and conflict-resolution metadata; invitees can view and edit only the user-visible fields, not this technical metadata. The owner can stop sharing or delete the shared countdown, and participants can leave it. CountDaysNow uses no accounts, advertising, third-party analytics or tracking tools, and sends no data to developer servers. Optimized for iPhone Duo, with a two-column layout on the inner display in landscape.

Screenshots

Pinning4 screens
CountDaysNow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CountDaysNow at every 3 days against Pinning's every 4 weeks. CountDaysNow also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Pinning's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and CountDaysNow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pinning ships an update every 4 weeks, CountDaysNow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pinning versus CountDaysNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinningCountDaysNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnybox LTDGuan Feng Lai

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pinning

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
  • Yearly$11.991 Year
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  • Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
1 purchases

CountDaysNow

One-time1
  • CountDaysNow Lifetime Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CountDaysNow free?
CountDaysNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pinning or CountDaysNow have ads?
Neither Pinning nor CountDaysNow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pinning or CountDaysNow?
Pinning ships an update every 4 weeks, and CountDaysNow every 3 days. Most recently, Pinning was updated on October 27, 2026 and CountDaysNow on October 14, 2026.

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