Comparison

Retirement Countdown vs RetirementTracker

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

Head to head
About

Retirement Countdown

Plan your retirement with this app that calculates your financial readiness and identifies potential shortfalls. It helps you visualize your progress and explore options for early retirement, offering insights into your assets and risk.

Highlights
  • Financial retirement preparedness calculation
  • Retirement shortfall analysis
  • Early retirement affordability assessment
  • Asset tracking and organization
  • Risk assessment based on assets
  • Retirement countdown clock
Features
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Plan your path to retirement – with the WorkEnd app. - Calculate how well you're financially prepared for retirement - Identify a potential retirement shortfall early on - See if you can afford to retire earlier WorkEnd – your smart companion for a financially relaxed retirement. Your personal Retirement Countdown: The retirement countdown shows you exactly how close you are to your goal and helps you stay on track. Retirement Shortfall Analysis (Premium Feature): Find out early if you're at risk of a retirement shortfall. WorkEnd gives you a clear picture of your future financial situation and where you currently stand. Flexible Retirement (Premium Feature): Discover if you can retire earlier than planned. Don’t want to work until 67? WorkEnd helps you see if your assets are enough to support early retirement. Assets & Risk Assessment (Premium Feature): Keep track of your assets – clearly and organized. Based on your asset allocation and investment horizon, you'll receive a risk assessment to support smarter financial decisions. WorkEnd Premium can be activated via a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time purchase for lifetime use. Please note our data privacy regulations at https://workend.app/privacy-policy-app. Apple's Terms of Use apply, which you can find at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.

About

RetirementTracker

This app tracks the remaining workdays until your retirement, deducting weekends, public holidays, and vacation. It offers customizable plans, milestones, and reminders to keep your retirement goal in sight. View your progress with interactive calendar pages and share your countdown visually.

Highlights
  • Workday countdown
  • Deducts weekends, holidays, and vacation
  • Customizable retirement plans
  • Milestones and reminders
  • Interactive calendar page
  • Shareable countdown images
  • Supports 22 countries' public holidays
Features
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How many workdays are left until you retire? RetirementTracker counts not just the calendar days until your retirement date, but your real workdays – weekends, your region's public holidays and your vacation are already deducted. Up to date every day, live down to the second. Whether retirement is months or many years away, RetirementTracker keeps your finish line in view. THE LIVING CALENDAR PAGE • Your countdown as a tear-off calendar: tap the page to see calendar days, workdays, weeks or percent • On each new day, yesterday's sheet tears off • Quote of the day: save your favorites or share them • Your next milestone, plus the Mondays, weekends, paydays and public holidays still ahead of you • Career progress: what percentage of your working life is already behind you? • Share your countdown as an image – in two designs • A calm design in light and dark, with your own photo if you like TRANSPARENT CALCULATION No guesswork: "How it's calculated" shows how your workdays add up – calendar days minus days off, public holidays and vacation, including the vacation you haven't planned yet. YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN, YOUR RULES • Retirement date, workweek (full-time, part-time or your own workdays), vacation days per year and the days you have left this year • Work phases: fewer workdays, a release from work before retirement, or a last workday before your retirement date • Scenarios: save what-if plans, compare them and adopt the one you like • Optional: your career start date for your career progress MILESTONES & REMINDERS • Automatic milestones such as 1,000, 500 or 100 days left • Your own milestones for personal stages • Reminders on the day and the day before – at the time you choose VACATION, HOLIDAYS & LONG WEEKENDS • Public holidays for 22 countries: the US (federal holidays), Canada with every province and territory, the UK, Ireland, Australia with every state and territory, Germany with all 16 states, Austria, Switzerland with every canton, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Singapore • Vacation calendar with your vacation, public holidays and your own days off • Your employer gives extra days off, or a holiday is missing? Add them yourself – they count in the calculation • Find time off: combine public holidays and a few vacation days into long weekends and longer breaks WIDGETS WITH PREMIUM • 7 Home Screen widgets: workdays, calendar days, progress, motivation, facts, milestone and photo • Lock Screen widgets: round, as a card or as a line above the clock • Tap the number to switch: days, workdays, weeks or percent • Most widgets in light and dark APPLE WATCH WITH PREMIUM • Your countdown on your wrist: the calendar page, your next milestone and the quote of the day • Complications for your watch face • The watch gets its figures from RetirementTracker on your iPhone Premium is a one-time purchase – no subscription. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU All your details stay on your devices. No account, no sign-up. IN 10 LANGUAGES English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Polish. GETTING STARTED Choose your country and region, set your retirement date, enter your vacation days – done. If you like, RetirementTracker reminds you of your milestones. Also inside: book tips on retirement, hand-picked for the US. Note: RetirementTracker counts the days until the retirement date you choose. It does not calculate pension amounts, is not affiliated with any pension provider or authority, and does not provide financial or retirement advice. Holiday data without guarantee. Start your retirement countdown today and watch retirement get closer every day.

Screenshots

Retirement Countdown4 screens
RetirementTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Retirement Countdown at 91% against RetirementTracker's 0%. Retirement Countdown also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (166 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Retirement Countdown sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and RetirementTracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Retirement Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Retirement Countdown has 166 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Retirement Countdown's written reviews are positive against 0% of RetirementTracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Retirement Countdown ships an update weekly, RetirementTracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Retirement Countdown versus RetirementTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetirement CountdownRetirementTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (166 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings166 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTobias FeldmannVincent Waelken

Customer experience

Retirement Countdown

All ratings166 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%

RetirementTracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Retirement Countdown

Subscriptions2
  • WorkEnd Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • WorkEnd Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$17.901 Year
One-time3
  • WorkEnd Premium (Solidarity)$6.99
  • Premium (Lifetime offer)$14.99
  • WorkEnd Premium (Lifetime)$29.99
1 purchases

RetirementTracker

One-time1
  • Premium-Widgets$1.99

Questions

Is Retirement Countdown free?
Retirement Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RetirementTracker free?
RetirementTracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Retirement Countdown or RetirementTracker?
Retirement Countdown is rated higher. Retirement Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 166 ratings, while RetirementTracker averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Retirement Countdown or RetirementTracker have ads?
Neither Retirement Countdown nor RetirementTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Retirement Countdown or RetirementTracker?
Retirement Countdown ships an update weekly, and RetirementTracker every 4 days. Most recently, Retirement Countdown was updated on November 4, 2026 and RetirementTracker on November 9, 2026.

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