Daily Protein vs Final Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Protein
Effortlessly monitor your daily protein intake with a clean and intuitive tracker. Log food quickly, set goals, and build healthy habits without needing an account or subscription. Enjoy features like barcode scanning, custom reminders, and streak tracking.
- Quick food logging
- Barcode scanning
- Daily protein goal setting
- Tracking streaks
- iCloud sync
- Customizable reminders
- Light and dark mode
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Track your protein quickly — no clutter, no hassle. Daily Protein helps you stay on top of your nutrition with a clean, intuitive tracker. Log food in seconds, monitor your intake, and build consistent habits — all without needing an account or subscription. FREE FEATURES • iCloud sync across devices • Unlimited favorites • Barcode scanning • Set a daily protein goal or use the built-in calculator • Manually log food with serving sizes • Search, sort, and edit your favorites • Copy foods from another meal • Light and dark mode • Daily reminders • Daily protein intake chart • Tracking streaks PREMIUM FEATURES (One-time purchase or optional subscription) • Customize meal categories and colors • Home screen widgets • Custom app icon and favorite icon • 30-day chart and detailed insights Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Final Countdown
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Two kinds of time, one app. The minutes of a stretch, a breathing cycle, or an evening wind-down — and the days until the trip, the race, or the birthday you're counting toward. Countdown handles both, on your iPhone, your iPad, your wrist, and your Lock Screen. No account. No ads. Nothing to buy. Nothing collected. TIMERS FOR ROUTINES Build a timer once and start it with a tap. Name it, set its length, and give it a beep every 10 or 30 seconds, or every 1, 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes — a cue to change position or switch sides without watching the clock. Several timers can run at the same time, and they keep counting while you're in another app or with the screen off. COUNTDOWNS TO THE DAYS THAT MATTER Add an event with a date and watch the days, hours, minutes and seconds tick down. Mark it as a birthday, anniversary, trip, party, deadline or meeting, and the app dresses it accordingly — with a little celebration when it finally arrives. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app runs your routines on their own. Start, pause and reset from your wrist, and the display stays on while a timer counts down, so you can hold a stretch or follow a breathing cycle hands-free instead of tapping the watch awake mid-routine. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN A running timer appears as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with pause and cancel one tap away. Widgets keep your next event in view — a full countdown on the Home Screen, or a compact one beside the clock on the Lock Screen. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD The same app, laid out for the screen it's on. On iPad the countdown dial grows and the content settles into a readable column, in Split View and Stage Manager too. MADE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY • Choose your beep and alert tones • Turn sound or haptics off entirely • Decide whether the screen stays awake while a timer runs • Time-sensitive alerts, so the end of a routine isn't lost to a Focus mode • Rename a timer or change its length and beep interval whenever you like PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Countdown makes no network requests at all. There are no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party code anywhere in the app. Your timers, events and settings stay on your device — we never see them, because there is nowhere for them to go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Final Countdown at none against Daily Protein's 2. Final Countdown also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). Daily Protein's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Daily Protein sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Final Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daily Protein ships an update every 7 months, Final Countdown every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Protein | Final Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ewan Chelley | Mehedi Khan |
In-app purchases
Daily Protein
- Premium – Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium – Lifetime Access$9.99
Final Countdown
No in-app purchases
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