Comparison

CountX vs BirthdayHQ

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

Head to head
About

CountX

Features
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Event Countdown is a simple app to manage important dates. Track birthdays, anniversaries, travel, work deadlines, and more with a clear countdown. The minimal design lets you see remaining time at a glance. Use reminders to ensure you never forget a special occasion. Perfect for keeping your schedule organized and your life planned. Try it now and make time management easier!

About

BirthdayHQ

Organize all your important dates in one place, from anywhere. This app helps you remember birthdays by importing them from various sources and allowing you to set custom reminder timings based on your relationship with individuals. It also provides gift ideas and quick ways to send well wishes.

Highlights
  • Import birthdays from contacts, Facebook, and calendars
  • Scan WhatsApp chats for birthday wishes
  • Manually add birthdays
  • Organize contacts into relationship circles
  • Customizable reminder timings
  • Jot down gift ideas and notes
  • Quick send options for cards and messages
Features
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Every birthday, in one place, organized by who they actually are to you. These days, birthdays are scattered across platforms, apps, and calendars, making it hard for even the most organized people to remember all of them. BirthdayHQ fixes this. Bring birthdays in from wherever they already live: • Import directly from your Contacts, with your permission • Scan a WhatsApp chat export for birthday wishes • Browse and import your Facebook birthdays, or bring in a calendar export • Add anyone manually in seconds Most birthday apps treat everyone the same. BirthdayHQ doesn't. Sort the people you care about into circles: Immediate Family, Extended Family, Close Friend, Wider Network, and let each one get the reminder timing it actually deserves. Two weeks' notice for your sister. A quiet nudge on the day for your wider network. You decide. Never scramble for a gift again. Jot down notes on what someone's into, or what you got them last year. When their birthday arrives, BirthdayHQ surfaces gift ideas suited to their age, and quick ways to send a card — digital or physical — or a text, WhatsApp message, or email wish in one tap. Built around your privacy, BirthdayHQ doesn't have accounts, logins, or a server that stores your data. Everything — birthdays, notes, relationship circles — stays on your device. Nothing is tracked, sold, or used for advertising. Stop relying on someone else to remember for you. Get organized, on your terms.

Screenshots

CountX2 screens
BirthdayHQ3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BirthdayHQ at none against CountX's shown. BirthdayHQ also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 months). On price, in-app purchases, 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. CountX sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and BirthdayHQ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CountX ships an update every 10 months, BirthdayHQ every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CountX versus BirthdayHQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountXBirthdayHQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkota tadaJordan Chancellor

In-app purchases

2 purchases

CountX

Subscriptions2
  • Ad-free for 1 month7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Ad-free for 1 year14 Days trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

BirthdayHQ

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$4.99

Questions

Is CountX free?
CountX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BirthdayHQ free?
BirthdayHQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CountX or BirthdayHQ have ads?
CountX shows ads; BirthdayHQ does not.
Which is updated more often, CountX or BirthdayHQ?
CountX ships an update every 10 months, and BirthdayHQ every 4 days. Most recently, CountX was updated on October 28, 2026 and BirthdayHQ on October 20, 2026.

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