Comparison

Simply vs Count Easy

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

Head to head
About

Simply

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Simply a free app. No ads, no in-app purchases, no paid features! Keep track of important events in your life with an easy and simple interface. - Add unlimited events - Customize the look and time of your events - Add Home Screen widgets to easily view your events - Dark mode automatically turns on based on your system settings - Many color themes to choose from

About

Count Easy

Features
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Count Easy counts the days until the moments you're waiting for, and the days since the ones that changed things. No accounts. No subscriptions. No data collection. WHAT'S NEXT, FIRST Home leads with your next moment, like "12 days until Lisbon trip", with a thin bar for how much of the wait is behind you. Below it: today's moments, everything coming up, and the counters counting up. ADD ONE IN A SENTENCE Type "Lisbon trip June 3", "Mom's birthday May 4" or "Quit coffee 2 weeks ago" and Count Easy reads the name, the date and whether it repeats. Or open the full form to pick the date, an icon or emoji, a color and a note. DAYS UNTIL AND DAYS SINCE Count down to trips, birthdays, weddings, launches and deadlines. Count up from the day you moved, started a job or quit something. On the day itself a countdown simply reads Today; the next day it starts counting the days since. REPEATS THAT KEEP THEIR DAY Repeat every day, week, two weeks, month or year. Birthdays come back every year, February 29 included in leap years, and monthly dates on the 31st land on each month's last day. RIGHT, WHEREVER YOU ARE Count Easy counts calendar days, so a countdown never shifts by a day when you travel across time zones or the clocks change. WIDGETS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen widgets show your next moment, or any countdown you pick. The medium and large sizes list what's up next. SHARE THE COUNTDOWN Send any countdown as an image, in Paper, Ink or Story. MAKE IT YOURS Light, Graphite or Black, and eight accents, each with its own app icon. PRIVACY FIRST Zero data collection. Zero tracking. Zero third-party code. Your countdowns stay on your device and are never transmitted anywhere. iCloud backup handles device transfers automatically.

Screenshots

Simply4 screens
Count Easy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Simply and Count Easy are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simply ships an update every 8 months, Count Easy every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Simply versus Count Easy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimplyCount Easy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 4 months โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMax GoodingMatthew Strickland

In-app purchases

None

Simply

No in-app purchases

None

Count Easy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simply free?
Simply is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Count Easy free?
Count Easy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simply or Count Easy have ads?
Neither Simply nor Count Easy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simply or Count Easy?
Simply ships an update every 8 months, and Count Easy every 4 months. Most recently, Simply was updated on October 30, 2026 and Count Easy on October 28, 2026.

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