Comparison

Clean Count vs Candle

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

Head to head
About

Clean Count

Features
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Clean Count is your all-in-one countdown tracker for life’s upcoming moments. Whether it’s a birthday, a vacation, or a product launch, Clean Count helps you stay organized with a simple, clutter-free interface and stylish home screen widgets. What Clean Count has: Clean & Intuitive Design Keep things simple. Quickly add or edit events without digging through menus. Customizable Colors & Styles Personalize each countdown with vibrant hues and modern patterns. Stylish Widgets View your top events on the Home Screen in small, medium, or large widget formats. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited styles , picture support, and iCloud sync across all your devices. Download Clean Count today for a fresh, modern approach to tracking every milestone! No intrusive ads, no unnecessary clutter, just pure countdown bliss.

About

Candle

This app quietly remembers important birthdays and gently reminds you when they're approaching. It offers a calm interface, pulls contacts with birthdays automatically, and provides timely notifications with quick actions. It also includes features for saving gift ideas and tracking past gifts.

Highlights
  • Gentle birthday reminders
  • Contact integration for birthdays
  • Gift idea capture
  • Gift history tracking
  • Calm, uncluttered interface
  • Private iCloud syncing
Features
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Candle is a free iPhone app that quietly remembers the birthdays that matter, then gently taps you on the shoulder in time to do something about them. No accounts, no ads, and no guilt. Most birthday apps are really just to-do lists wearing a party hat: a wall of 100 names and a nagging red badge that turns a happy occasion into homework. Candle acts as an external memory that holds every detail and stays silent until the moment it's useful. Send a gift that will arrive in time or get a reminder to send that "happy birthday" text. How It Stays Calm A Breathable Home Screen: See birthdays for today, this week, next week, and later this month. A birthday six months away stays tucked away until it's actually close. When nothing is coming up, Candle simply says "Nothing needs you right now." One Tap to Start Full: Candle pulls in every birthday already saved in your contacts. It only pulls contacts with birthdays, so your favorite pizza place stays out of it. Two Gentle Nudges: You receive one heads-up a week before (enough time for a gift or card to arrive) and one on the day, with a one-tap "send a text" button. There is no red anywhere, and no badges. Sparks: See a perfect gift in a shop window? Capture it in five seconds as a photo, link, note, or voice memo, without deciding who it's for right away. The Gift Vault: Keep track of what you gave last year, and fold your saved ideas neatly away until you need them. Private by Design, Free by Choice There is no account and no sign-up. Everything lives in your own iCloud, syncing privately across your devices. Nothing is uploaded, sold, or tracked, and the app stays completely free.

Screenshots

Clean Count4 screens
Candle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Candle at none against Clean Count's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Clean Count sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Candle asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Clean Count versus Candle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean CountCandle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNikolaus Letsche-FriedChristopher Weiss

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clean Count

One-time1
  • Clean Count Unlimited$2.99
None

Candle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clean Count free?
Clean Count is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Candle free?
Candle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clean Count or Candle have ads?
Neither Clean Count nor Candle shows ads.

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