Comparison

Countdown! vs Countdown Widget

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

Head to head
About

Countdown!

This app helps you track up to ten significant upcoming events with customizable countdown cards. It offers precise, second-by-second tracking and integrates with your home screen for easy access.

Highlights
  • Track up to 10 events
  • Customizable countdown cards
  • Home screen widget support
  • Precise second-by-second countdown
  • Beautiful design
Features
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Track up to 10 important events. Beautiful, customisable countdown cards. Home screen widget support. Precise countdown to the second.

About

Countdown Widget

Track important dates with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Set reminders, sync across devices, and even add personal notes and photos to each event. Count down to future events or count up from past ones.

Highlights
  • Multiple widget types and sizes
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Count down to or up from dates
  • Recurring event options
  • Customizable reminders
  • iCloud sync
  • Data import/export
Features
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A countdown that never loses your days — and never holds its four widgets back. Add the day that matters, put it on your home screen, and watch it come closer. No limit on how many you keep, and nothing between you and the number. FOUR WIDGETS, FREE • Four widgets: one countdown, the next few in a list, a spotlight, or a tile for each • Every size of all four, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Unlimited events — there is no cap, and there never will be • Count down to a date, or count up from one • Recurring events: yearly, monthly, weekly, or every few days • Reminders on the day, and as far ahead as you want • iCloud sync, with no account to make • Import from a calendar, a spreadsheet, or another countdown app — and export any time • No ads, ever COUNT DOWN TO ANYTHING A wedding countdown, a vacation or trip countdown, a birthday or an anniversary. Christmas, New Year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Exam day, graduation, retirement, a baby due date, a concert, a deadline, payday. Or count the days since a day that has already happened. YOUR DAYS, KEPT Most countdown apps lose your events at the worst moment — an update, a reinstall, a phone that died. This one takes a snapshot of everything on this device every single day, and always before anything risky. Thirty days of history, one tap to restore, and nothing ever leaves your phone. Days that have already passed are never deleted either: they collect into a timeline you can look back through, with the longest wait of each year written next to it. THE MOMENT ITSELF When a countdown reaches a milestone — a hundred days, a week, the morning of — the app opens on the number, full screen, and gives you a card worth sharing. THE BACK OF EVERY EVENT Tap an event and it turns over to a page of its own. Write a few lines, add photos, record a voice — the story of the day, kept with the day. It syncs with iCloud, goes into every backup, and shares as one picture. MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS Thirty-six ready-made events, from a birthday to a first day at work, each already set up with the right repeat and the right reminders. Two hundred drawn icons and the whole emoji keyboard. A hundred and fifty-nine full-screen backdrops — twenty-two of them photographs — a hundred and seven in Pro. COUNTDOWN PRO Pro unlocks the Pro backdrops, with a new drop every month, your own photos behind a countdown, Photo Roll — a widget that turns your event's own photos over behind the count, the Pro typefaces, the Lock Screen Live Activity, and inviting someone to count down with you. Whatever you unlock while subscribed stays yours for good — cancelling only stops the new ones arriving. Your countdowns, reminders and the four widgets work the same whether you subscribe or not. ——— Countdown Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Prices for the annual plan, which includes a 7-day free trial, and the monthly plan are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available; it does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

Countdown!3 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Countdown Widget at 4.6 against Countdown!'s 4.0. Countdown Widget also leads on ratings volume (36 vs 3). Countdown!'s advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 50%) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). 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. Countdown Widget sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Countdown! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget has 36 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Countdown!'s written reviews are positive against 50% of Countdown Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Countdown! versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown!Countdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings)4.6 (36 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings336 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGrant Strickland可 吴

Customer experience

Countdown!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Countdown Widget

All ratings36 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Countdown!

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions5
  • Countdown Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Countdown Pro Yearly · Welcome$6.991 Year
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime2 variants$14.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$19.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$20.99
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  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Countdown! free?
Countdown! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown! or Countdown Widget?
Countdown Widget is rated higher. Countdown! averages 4.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Countdown Widget averages 4.6 from 36 ratings.
Do Countdown! or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Countdown! nor Countdown Widget shows ads.

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