Comparison

Countdown Widget vs Eggleton

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

Eggleton

Features
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A timer you actually want to watch — and something to keep when it ends. Set a duration and an egg starts to warm. As the minutes pass the shell cracks, one crack at a time, so you can see how much time is left without reading a number. Near the end a beak breaks through. At zero the shell gives way and an animal steps out — and that animal is yours to keep. There are 84 of them, from a chick and a duckling to a dragon, a seaserpent, and a phoenix. Longer timers have better odds of something rare, so a 5-minute tea steep and a 2-hour deep work block feel genuinely different. WHY IT WORKS Most timers ask you to interpret a shrinking bar or a running number. Eggleton gives you countable cracks — a glance tells you "three left" instead of "somewhere past halfway." It is the same information, in the form your eye reads fastest. And it gives you a reason to let the timer finish. Cancel at minute 22 of 25 and nothing hatches. That small pull is the whole point. WHAT YOU GET • A hand-drawn hatching scene that escalates as the deadline nears • 84 collectible animals across four rarities, with a collection you fill over time • Sound synthesised in real time — shell taps, a heartbeat, a first cheep — never a sample loop • Haptics tuned to each crack, so you feel the countdown without looking • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Live Activity and Dynamic Island support • Notifications when the egg hatches, and an optional "10 seconds left" warning • Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a Mac menu bar timer • Pause, resume, or add a minute — the timer keeps correct time in the background BUILT FOR Pomodoro sessions and study sprints. Tea, coffee, and eggs. Workout intervals. Screen-time limits and "five more minutes" for kids. Anything where the finish deserves a moment. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. No network requests of any kind — the app never sends anything anywhere, because it has nothing to send. Your collection lives on your device. Reduce Motion, Reduce Flashing, and VoiceOver labels are built in, not bolted on. FREE, AND OPTIONAL Twelve animals — three of every rarity, legendaries included — are free forever. If you want the whole roster, one purchase opens the other seventy-two, permanently, on every device you own. No subscription, no currency, no timers you can pay to speed up. The odds never change.

Screenshots

Countdown Widget4 screens
Eggleton4 screens

Verdict

The call

Countdown Widget and Eggleton are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Eggleton sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Countdown Widget versus Eggleton: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown WidgetEggleton
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer凡 刘Rongxin Li

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown Widget

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99
1 purchases

Eggleton

One-time1
  • The Full Collection$4.99

Questions

Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eggleton free?
Eggleton is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown Widget or Eggleton have ads?
Neither Countdown Widget nor Eggleton shows ads.

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