Comparison

Simple Calendar vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Simple Calendar

Features
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A new event begins the moment you tap a date. It helps you create events and tasks quickly and easily, and ensures that you remember them. Decorate your home screen beautifully with the neat looking transparent widget. Key Features of Calendar Plus • Manage all your schedules at a glance by adding various Calendars, including Google Calendar. • Assign color codes to events in each calendar. • Provides various options to display including year, month, week, day and task views. • Display weekly weather information. • Set a pattern of recurrence and the time zone when you create an event. • Choose from several types of widgets with adjustable transparency. • Switch from one day, week, month or year to the next with a simple horizontal swipe. • Set up variety notifications for an event. • Holidays list of 2025 • Country wise holidays Productivity: • Different ways to view your calendar : Quickly switch between month, week and day view. • To-do : Use Reminders to create and view to-dos alongside your events. Go Traditional! • Now you can follow Panchang and Hijri calendar dates in your calendar. Sync all your calendars: • All your calendars in one place - Google Calendar works with all calendars on your phone, including Exchange. • Events from Gmail - Flight, hotel, concert, restaurant reservations and more gets added to your calendar automatically. Menstruation: • No need to download multiple applications to track your periods now you can do it with your own Calendar. Daily feeds: • Stay updated and enjoy a daily feed of jokes, horoscope, cricket schedule and weather. Get ready for your trips! • Now track upcoming long weekends and holidays to travel or do that thing you were finding time for. This app include Subscribe Calendar Plus Monthly at $1.99 and Calendar Plus Yearly at $9.99 to use ads free versions of the app for a Month and user can cancel it anytime. – Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/liam-sammy-pp – Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/liam-sammy-tos Like us and stay connected!

About

Countdown

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Countdown turns your calendars into a clear, bold countdown of the days left until every date that matters — work deadlines, birthdays, bills, trips and exams. • Big, glanceable numbers: "12 days", "Tomorrow", and hours and minutes on the final day. • A timeline drawn to scale, so busy weeks look busy. • Imports from Apple Calendar, Google, Exchange and Reminders — every event, only the calendars you pick, or just the ones matching keywords like "deadline", "birthday" or "exam". • Birthdays from your contacts, always the next one, with the age. • Categories and tags with their own colors, icons and reminder schedules. • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy and Mac desktop, with a done button. • Live Activities count down the final hours on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — automatically on the day, or pin anything. • Siri and Shortcuts: "How many days until my next deadline?" • Syncs through your own iCloud. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Try everything free for 7 days — nothing is charged automatically. Then unlock Countdown for life with one purchase, shared with your family through Family Sharing. In English and Spanish.

Screenshots

Simple Calendar4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against Simple Calendar's shown. Simple Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Simple Calendar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Simple Calendar versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple CalendarCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiam SammyMiguel Rosa Zazo

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Simple Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Calendar Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Calendar Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Calendar Universe Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Countdown

One-time1
  • Countdown Lifetime$8.99

Questions

Is Simple Calendar free?
Simple Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Simple Calendar or Countdown have ads?
Simple Calendar shows ads; Countdown does not.

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