Comparison

Countdown & Visual Timer vs Don't Let Me Forget

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

Head to head
About

Countdown & Visual Timer

This app helps you track important dates and events with customizable countdowns and timely reminders. It offers unlimited event creation and a count-up feature for past occasions. Personalize your countdowns with custom backgrounds and home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdowns
  • Timely reminders
  • Unlimited event creation
  • Count up from past events
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • Home screen widget
Features
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Countdown is a free, user-friendly countdown timer and reminder app designed to help you keep track of all your important events and dates. Key Features: Home Screen Widget: Stay on top of your upcoming events by placing our customizable widget directly on your Home Screen (Premium feature on iOS 14). Customizable Backgrounds: Choose any color for your countdown background to suit your style. Timely Reminders: Get notified when it's time for your event, plus optional reminders 1 day or 1 week before. Unlimited Event Creation: Add as many events as you'd like—no limits! Count Up from Past Events: Look back on memorable moments with the count-up feature on each countdown page. Plan for any occasion: vacations, birthdays, holidays, parties, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, cruises, weddings, anniversaries, births, graduations, pregnancies, trips, new homes, retirements, concerts, goals, and much more! Privacy Policy: https://byteblocksdigital.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Don't Let Me Forget

Never miss important dates or tasks again. This app allows you to set recurring or one-off reminders for anything you need to remember, from birthdays to appointments. It offers customizable notifications and cross-platform syncing.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited reminders
  • Categorize reminders by contact or general
  • Edit and delete reminders
  • Auto-delete, reschedule, or disable reminders
  • Cross-platform support (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
  • iCloud sync
  • Customizable background images (Subscription)
Features
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Never again forget an anniversary, birthday, appointment.... or to pick up the kids from school! Don't Let Me Forget will remind you of anything you deem important enough to want to remember. Is this a recurring event? No problem, set it up once and tell it how often it should remind you. Once off? No problem! Don't Let Me Forget is free to download and use and is 100% AD FREE! It collects no personal information and thus shares nothing with third parties, even us! Free to use but does offer a paid upgrade that gives you advance warning of upcoming reminders. For example, have an anniversary coming up? Give yourself enough time to buy a gift with a 4 week early notification and a 2 week follow up reminder! Never be accusing of forgetting ever again. Features include: * Create as many reminders as you want * Find your reminders either by contact if it relates to a specific person or via the general purpose Reminders tab if not * Reminders can be edited or deleted at any time * Reminders can auto delete after they fire, reschedule themselves for a future date or disable themselves, ready for you to edit at a later date * Full cross-platform SwiftUI (iPhone, iPad, Mac) * iCloud sync via CloudKit * Contact integration * Clean native UI on every platform * Subscription gating via StoreKit 2 * Customizable background images (Subscription) * Smart per-reminder advance notifications with background refresh (Subscription) Terms Of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mybadstudios.com/privacy-policy-dont-let-me-forget/

Screenshots

Countdown & Visual Timer4 screens
Don't Let Me Forget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Don't Let Me Forget at 5.0 against Countdown & Visual Timer's 4.0. Don't Let Me Forget also leads on ads (none vs shown). Countdown & Visual Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Countdown & Visual Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Don't Let Me Forget sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Don't Let Me Forget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown & Visual Timer ships an update every 2 days, Don't Let Me Forget monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countdown & Visual Timer versus Don't Let Me Forget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown & Visual TimerDon't Let Me Forget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperByteBlocks, LLCRyunosuke Jansen

Customer experience

Countdown & Visual Timer

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

Don't Let Me Forget

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown & Visual Timer

One-time1
  • Countdown$3.99
1 purchases

Don't Let Me Forget

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Countdown & Visual Timer free?
Countdown & Visual Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Don't Let Me Forget free?
Don't Let Me Forget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown & Visual Timer or Don't Let Me Forget?
Don't Let Me Forget is rated higher. Countdown & Visual Timer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Don't Let Me Forget averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Countdown & Visual Timer or Don't Let Me Forget have ads?
Countdown & Visual Timer shows ads; Don't Let Me Forget does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown & Visual Timer or Don't Let Me Forget?
Countdown & Visual Timer ships an update every 2 days, and Don't Let Me Forget monthly. Most recently, Countdown & Visual Timer was updated on October 30, 2026 and Don't Let Me Forget on October 31, 2026.

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