Days Until vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Days Until
Track important dates like birthdays and anniversaries with precise countdowns down to the second. Keep key events visible on your home screen with customizable widgets and receive smart reminders so you never forget.
- Event countdowns to the second
- Home screen widgets
- Smart reminders
- Birth insights and fun facts
- Add photos to events
- Privacy-focused, no account needed
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Days Until: Countdown Widget is a powerful event countdown and widget app that helps you track birthdays, anniversaries, and life’s biggest moments in one simple timeline. See exactly how much time is left down to the second, and keep your most important events visible on your home screen. Track all your events • Birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, and custom events • Clean timeline view with smart sorting • Easily see upcoming and past events Live countdown widget • View your next event instantly • Home screen widgets with multiple styles • Designed for quick glance usage Exact age and time tracking • Years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds • Track life milestones and important moments Smart reminders • Get notified before important dates • Customize reminder timing • Never forget an event again Birth insights and fun facts • Zodiac sign, Chinese zodiac, and birthstone • Famous birthdays and historical events • Life milestones and personality insights Memory and sharing • Add photos to your events • Create and share beautiful countdown cards Privacy first • No account required • Your data stays on your device • No tracking and no data selling Privacy Policy: https://nullvoidkage.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-3195fa80930a802c8928fa361e545b4c Terms of Service: https://nullvoidkage.notion.site/Terms-of-Service-3195fa80930a8003bb05f33a11b137c5
Countdown
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Count down the days to every big moment: birthdays, trips, weddings, holidays, exams and due dates. Countdown shows each event live, down to the second, and puts it on your home screen with a widget. Live countdowns Days, hours, minutes and seconds, ticking live. Switch any event between days, weeks and hours with a tap. Home-screen widgets Put any countdown on your home screen: one event per widget, small, medium or large, in three styles. Each widget works out the days by itself. On iPhone, widgets need iOS 17 or later; there are Lock Screen widgets too. Days since Count up from a date to follow anniversaries, streaks and milestones in days, weeks or hours. Reached milestones are ticked off. Your own style Choose a colour gradient, a photo from the background packs or one of your own photos. Each countdown gets its category and its occasion art. Reminders Get a reminder 30, 7, 3 or 1 day before, on the day itself and at milestones. Yearly events roll over to next year on their own. Three views Cards, a compact list or a timeline of what is coming. Favourites, 16 categories, search and sorting keep everything tidy. Share the countdown Make a share card as a story, a square or a card. Send it to friends or save the image. Holidays Add the public holidays of the next 12 months for the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Indonesia or India in one go. Full screen Show one big live countdown in full screen, or let the slideshow go through all your events. Countdown Pro Countdown Pro unlocks every background pack, every widget style and the slideshow. Private No account. Your countdowns stay on your phone, and a backup file keeps them safe, photos included. Also included • Dark mode • Phone and tablet layouts • 18 languages, chosen in Settings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Days Until at fortnightly against Countdown's every 2 months. Days Until also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Days Until sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Days Until ships an update fortnightly, Countdown every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Days Until | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikko Ferwelo | Gunawan Santoso |
In-app purchases
Days Until
- Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$5.991 Year
- Premium Unlock$5.99
Countdown
- Countdown Pro$6.99









