Comparison

Countdown Widget vs Minua

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

Head to head
About

Countdown Widget

Track upcoming events with a simple timeline and customizable widgets. See exactly how much time remains until birthdays, trips, exams, and more. Set reminders and personalize your countdowns with icons and backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns for important events
  • View remaining days, hours, and minutes
  • Organize events in a clean timeline
  • Set reminders before important dates
  • Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Personalize events with icons, colors, and backgrounds
Features
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Countdown - Day Countdown helps you track the days left until every important moment. Count down to birthdays, trips, exams, weddings, holidays, anniversaries, deadlines, and personal goals in one simple, beautiful timeline. See exactly how many days, hours, and minutes are left, add reminders before important dates, and keep your next big event visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. WHAT YOU CAN DO Create countdowns for important events Unlock unlimited countdowns with Pro View remaining days, hours, and minutes Organize upcoming events in a clean timeline Set reminders before important dates Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets Personalize events with icons, colors, and backgrounds PERFECT FOR Birthdays and anniversaries Travel departures and vacations Weddings and celebrations Exams, deadlines, and school events Holidays and festivals Personal goals and milestones WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT Simple, elegant design Fast and easy event creation Beautiful widgets for quick glance updates Custom themes and covers for every event Built to help you remember what matters most Download Countdown - Day Countdown and make every day count. Service & Support • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://noteable.app/privacy • Support URL: https://noteable.app/support • Contact: support@noteable.app

About

Minua

This app helps you manage screen time by locking distracting apps until you earn time in them through productive activities. You can set earning and fun apps, ratios, and daily limits for yourself or your child.

Highlights
  • Earn screen time through productive apps
  • Lock distracting apps until time is earned
  • Customizable earning ratios
  • Set daily earning caps and allowed hours
  • Parental controls with PIN protection
  • Works offline and privately
Features
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Screen time you earn, for your child or for yourself. Time in the apps you want more of unlocks time in the apps you want less of. Set it up on your child's iPhone or iPad behind a parent PIN, or on your own phone to break the scroll habit. You pick the apps, the ratio and the hours. Everything stays on the device. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose who Minua is for: My child or Myself. 2. Choose the earning apps (learning apps, on a child's device): reading, math, languages, workouts, meditation, whatever you want more of. 3. Choose the fun apps: social media, videos, games. They stay locked until there's time in the balance. 4. Set the ratio, anywhere from 1:1 to 12:1. At 6:1, six minutes of earning unlocks one minute of fun. 5. Set the allowed hours and a daily earning cap. The balance shows minutes earned, minutes used and what's left. When it runs out, the fun apps lock again. It resets every day, so each morning starts fresh. ON A CHILD'S DEVICE • Settings and purchases sit behind a 4-digit parent PIN, with a timed lockout after repeated wrong attempts • On a child's device in Family Sharing, you approve Minua with your Apple Account, so your child can't switch the permission off or delete Minua without you • Setup tips to prevent app deletion and idle earning FOR YOURSELF • Put the apps you scroll behind the apps you want to spend more time in • Wording written for adults, and a PIN only if you want one • It's your phone and your rules: you can change them in Settings whenever you decide to. Minua just makes the scroll wait until you've earned it IN BOTH MODES • Ratio from 1:1 to 12:1, allowed hours and a daily earning cap • Bonus time: +5, +15 or +30 minutes for today • A heads-up about two minutes before fun time runs out • A weekly chart of time earned and time played • Change your PIN in Settings • Works on iPhone and iPad BUILT ON APPLE'S SCREEN TIME Minua uses Apple's Screen Time permission to lock and unlock the apps you pick. On devices outside Family Sharing, Minua shows on its home screen if the permission is ever switched off, and the in-app guide walks you through the settings that make the rules harder to get around. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts and no sign-up. No servers, no tracking, no analytics. Your settings and your balance stay on the device, and Minua works offline. TRY IT FIRST Every feature is free for 7 days. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks Minua for good. No subscription.

Screenshots

Countdown Widget4 screens
Minua4 screens

Verdict

The call

Countdown Widget and Minua are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Countdown Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Minua sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Countdown Widget versus Minua: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown WidgetMinua
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.1 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer凡 刘Blue Flame Games

Customer experience

Countdown Widget

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Minua

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown Widget

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99
1 purchases

Minua

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Minua free?
Minua is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown Widget or Minua have ads?
Neither Countdown Widget nor Minua shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Widget or Minua?
Countdown Widget ships an update weekly, and Minua weekly. Most recently, Countdown Widget was updated on October 17, 2026 and Minua on October 17, 2026.

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