Comparison

LifeTicker vs Countdown 2025

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

Head to head
About

LifeTicker

Track upcoming events with customizable countdowns displayed as widgets on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Share countdowns with friends and family, and add personalized details like images, notes, and tasks. Offers smart event suggestions for newer devices.

Highlights
  • Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch widgets
  • Shared countdowns with friends and family
  • Smart event suggestions with Apple Intelligence
  • Customizable event details (images, notes, tasks)
  • Event import from calendar
  • Reminders and recurring events
Features
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Countdowns for the things you’re looking forward to – as a widget on your Home Screen. A vacation, a wedding, a birthday, retirement, or something small that still matters: create an event and watch the days count down. On your Home Screen, on your Lock Screen, on your Apple Watch. Free, and no account needed. LifeTicker started because I wanted to count the days until my next vacation and couldn’t find an app that did it nicely. I’ve been developing it on my own ever since, and I use it every day. Just describe it New in 4.0: In the New tab, describe what you’re looking forward to in one sentence, typed or spoken, and LifeTicker suggests the event – date, time, image and whatever else is in the sentence. If something’s missing, it asks. The suggestion is made on your iPhone, not on a server. It needs Apple Intelligence, so an iPhone 15 Pro or later. On older iPhones you create events by hand as before; everything else works the same. Count down together Invite friends or family to an event. Everyone sees the same countdown, kept in sync through iCloud, and checks off the tasks together – for the trip with friends or the wedding you’re planning as a couple. Make it your event Image, place, song, note, links and a task list belong right on the event. 300+ image templates, photos from Unsplash, or your own photo. And the rest • Reminders as early as you like – once for everything, or per event. • Discover: holidays and special days ready to add, and they can keep themselves up to date. • A calendar, pinned events and a look back at what’s already happened. • Import events from your calendar, with a preview. • Single dates, recurring occasions, or whole series with several milestones. LifeTicker is free. If you need more than a few events, you can unlock Premium – that’s what keeps the project going. If something’s off: Contact in the app sends your report straight to me. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://lifeticker.app/privacy/

About

Countdown 2025

Easily track important life events like birthdays, holidays, and weddings with stylish, customizable countdowns. Get timely reminders and sync across devices. View events on your Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns
  • Count down and count up events
  • Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets
  • Customizable widget colors
  • Repeating event options
  • Reminders and notifications
  • iCloud sync
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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An elegant and easy-to-use Countdown app. Keep track of life’s most important moments with style. Whether it’s a birthday, holiday, party, Christmas, New Year, wedding, or any special event, this app helps you count down the days—or even count up the memories—effortlessly. Features: • Add unlimited countdowns – never miss a single event • Countdown and count up events with precision • Widgets everywhere – Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy • Custom colors – personalize widget backgrounds to your style • Repeating events – set yearly, monthly, weekly, or daily repeats • Reminders & notifications – get alerts for each countdown • iCloud sync – keep your events updated across all devices • Smart sorting – arrange countdowns manually or automatically by date • Categories – organize events for easier management • Dark Mode – seamless experience day or night • Apple Watch support – view countdowns right on your wrist With this Countdown app, every special moment is beautifully displayed and never forgotten. Simple, powerful, and always with you.

Screenshots

LifeTicker4 screens
Countdown 20254 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown 2025 at none against LifeTicker's 3. Countdown 2025 also leads on ratings volume (128 vs 20) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). LifeTicker's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (80% vs 67%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LifeTicker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Countdown 2025 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for LifeTicker against 4.5 for Countdown 2025. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown 2025 has 128 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of LifeTicker's written reviews are positive against 67% of Countdown 2025's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LifeTicker ships an update every 8 days, Countdown 2025 every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
LifeTicker versus Countdown 2025: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLifeTickerCountdown 2025
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (20 ratings) — better4.5 (128 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings20128 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size528 MB9 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperChristoph BodynekTue Nguyen Minh

Customer experience

LifeTicker

All ratings19 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Countdown 2025

All ratings123 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

LifeTicker

Subscriptions2
  • Unlimited Events - Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Unlimited Events - Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$8.99
None

Countdown 2025

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LifeTicker free?
LifeTicker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown 2025 free?
Countdown 2025 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LifeTicker or Countdown 2025?
LifeTicker is rated higher. LifeTicker averages 4.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Countdown 2025 averages 4.5 from 128 ratings.
Do LifeTicker or Countdown 2025 have ads?
Neither LifeTicker nor Countdown 2025 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LifeTicker or Countdown 2025?
LifeTicker ships an update every 8 days, and Countdown 2025 every 5 weeks. Most recently, LifeTicker was updated on November 12, 2026 and Countdown 2025 on November 12, 2026.

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