Daylight Capture vs CountDaysNow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daylight Capture
Easily send links, articles, and PDFs from your iOS device to your Daylight Computer. Read content in a focused environment after sharing it through the iOS share dialog. Requires a DC1 device to function.
- Share links, articles, and PDFs
- Utilizes iOS share dialog
- Read content in peace
- Requires Daylight Computer hardware
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This app allows you to easily send content to your Daylight Computer. Share links, articles, or PDFs using the iOS share dialog. Then read in peace. You need a DC1 to use this app, see daylightcomputer.com. See our Privacy Policy: support.daylightcomputer.com/privacy-policy And Terms of Service: support.daylightcomputer.com/terms-of-service
CountDaysNow
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daylight Capture at none against CountDaysNow's 1. Daylight Capture also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). CountDaysNow's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. CountDaysNow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daylight Capture asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daylight Capture ships an update every 9 days, CountDaysNow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylight Capture | CountDaysNow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daylight Computer Co | Guan Feng Lai |
In-app purchases
Daylight Capture
No in-app purchases
CountDaysNow
- CountDaysNow Lifetime Pro$4.99
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