Comparison

Kounts vs Photo Countdown Widget

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

Head to head
About

Kounts

Track upcoming events with customizable countdowns. Add personal photos, sync with contacts, and share with friends. Offers a variety of visual styles and reminders for important dates.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdown widgets
  • Personalized event photos
  • Contact birthday syncing
  • Shared countdown spaces
  • Live Activities and Dynamic Island support
  • Apple Watch app
  • Ready-made countdown packs
Features
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Kounts counts the days until whatever you're waiting for: a trip, a birthday, a wedding, a game release, Christmas. Every widget is free and there are no ads. You don't need an account. Add the date, pick how it looks, and the countdown sits where you'll see it: your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, your Apple Watch, and the Dynamic Island on the day itself. COUNTDOWN WIDGETS, ALL FREE • Eight Home Screen widgets, and on iOS 27 four of them can fill a whole page • Lock Screen widgets, StandBy, Control Center and the Action Button • A Live Activity and a Dynamic Island countdown on the day • An Apple Watch app with complications • Kounts turns with your iPhone and spreads out on iPad, Mac and the iPhone Duo. One Premium purchase covers every device DAYS UNTIL, DAYS SINCE See how many days are left, or watch it run down live in days, hours, minutes and seconds. It counts up too: days since you quit smoking, years together. A birthday can repeat every year, and a trip can run for several days. YOUR PHOTOS, WITH DEPTH Put your own photo behind any countdown. When it shows people or pets, the count can sit behind them, like the clock on the Lock Screen. On iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, a photo of a poster or an invitation becomes a countdown: Kounts reads the name, the place and the date for you. BIRTHDAYS FROM YOUR CONTACTS Add the birthdays already saved in your contacts in one go, each with the person's photo and age. They stay up to date when a contact changes. READY-MADE COUNTDOWNS Follow a pack in Discover and its dates arrive as countdowns that stay right on their own: Video Games and Movies (release day), TV Shows (the next episode), Moon & Sky (moon phases, eclipses, meteor showers), Public Holidays (22 countries) and Faith & Traditions (Ramadan, Passover, Diwali and more). Browsing is free, each pack is a one-off purchase, and Premium includes them all. TEN CARD STYLES A full picture with a progress ring, a tear-off calendar page, a ticket stub, one giant number, your photo inside a ring, and five more. Pick from ten gradients, five fonts, accent colors and sixteen app icons. HOLIDAYS COME WITH THEIR OWN LOOK 25 holidays have their own colors and decorations, free for everyone: Halloween, Christmas, Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year and more. The dates match where you live, like Mothering Sunday in the UK or Thanksgiving in October in Canada. COUNT DOWN TOGETHER • Create a Shared Space for up to 5 people and everyone sees the same countdowns. Anyone can add or edit, and joining is free • Or share a single event: friends follow it live and add their pictures to a shared album REMINDERS Up to five reminders per event, and an Important event rings a full screen alarm, even in a Focus. LOOK BACK, TOO Add photos to any event and they stay with it. On This Day brings back countdowns from earlier years, and in December your year turns into a recap. SIRI AND SPOTLIGHT Ask Siri "when is Mum's birthday" or find an event in Spotlight. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, describe an event in plain language and Kounts fills in the details. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Your events live on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. There is nothing to sign up for, and Premium syncs them across your devices. Kounts is free, with room for 15 countdowns. Premium is one purchase, yearly or lifetime: unlimited countdowns, every card style, font, color and app icon, photo memories, iCloud sync, calendar sync, sharing, and the depth effect on widgets and share images. Pick a date you're looking forward to and start counting.

About

Photo Countdown Widget

Easily track days until or since important events with customizable widgets. Add your own photos as backgrounds and choose from various themes and fonts. All features are free and private, with no ads or accounts required.

Highlights
  • Countdown and count-up to any event
  • Customizable widgets for Home, Lock, and StandBy screens
  • Personalize with your own photos and themes
  • Automatic event switching from 'until' to 'since'
  • Repeat events by year, month, or week
  • Optional reminders before events
Features
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Photo Countdown is a free countdown widget with your own photo: the days until a birthday, wedding or trip, or a days-since counter for anything you started or quit. Every widget free — Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. No ads, no account, nothing locked. New widgets show your next event on their own and move on when its day has passed. They flip from "days until" to "days since" automatically. Your events and photos never leave your phone. Nothing to sync, nothing to lose in a sync. COUNTDOWN & COUNT SINCE • Count down the days to any future event • Count up from any date — perfect for sobriety, streaks and milestones • Show days, or weeks, months or years ("12 weeks, 3 days") • Switches automatically when the date passes, or lock it to always count down or always count since EVERY WIDGET, FREE • Small, medium, large and extra-large Home Screen widgets • Up Next: your next few events in one widget • Lock Screen widgets — circular, rectangular and inline • Your photo as the background — add up to 10, and the widget rotates through up to 6 of them • Color themes for events without a photo, including Birthday, Wedding, Trip and Holiday • Tap a widget to open its event MAKE IT YOURS • 10 ready-made looks, previewed live with your own photo • Frame your photo: drag and pinch until it fits every widget size • 8 fonts, any text color, 6 text positions and a readability slider • Photos stay visible on a Tinted or Clear Home Screen • Widgets follow the event's style, or pick a font and color for one widget alone REMINDERS & REPEATS • Repeat every year, month or week, or every few days, weeks, months or years — birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own • Reminders on the day, or 1 day, 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month before, at the time you pick • Share any countdown as a square photo card SIMPLE & PRIVATE • Add an event in seconds — pick an occasion, a date and a photo • No account, no signup, no ads, no subscription • Your events stay on your device • In English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Japanese Perfect for: • Vacations, birthdays, weddings, holidays • Sobriety tracking & addiction recovery • Fitness goals & streaks • Anniversaries & milestones • Baby due dates & retirement countdowns Free to use. If Photo Countdown earns a place on your Home Screen, the Support screen lets you leave an optional tip or a rating — that's what keeps it free. Nothing is ever locked.

Screenshots

Kounts4 screens
Photo Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Photo Countdown Widget at free against Kounts's freemium. Photo Countdown Widget also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Kounts's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Kounts sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Photo Countdown Widget sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Kounts against 5.0 for Photo Countdown Widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kounts ships an update every 4 days, Photo Countdown Widget every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Kounts versus Photo Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKountsPhoto Countdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel Caceiro AversariShahriar Ahmed

Customer experience

Kounts

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Photo Countdown Widget

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Kounts

Subscriptions1
  • Kounts Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time8
  • Moon & Sky pack$1.99
  • Public Holidays pack$1.99
  • TV Shows pack$1.99
Show 5 more
  • Movies pack$1.99
  • Faith & Traditions pack$1.99
  • Video Games pack$1.99
  • All Packs$3.99
  • Kounts Lifetime Member$19.99
3 purchases

Photo Countdown Widget

One-time3
  • Nice Tip$1.99
  • Generous Tip$4.99
  • Amazing Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Kounts free?
Kounts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Countdown Widget free?
Photo Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kounts or Photo Countdown Widget?
Kounts and Photo Countdown Widget are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Kounts or Photo Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Kounts nor Photo Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kounts or Photo Countdown Widget?
Kounts ships an update every 4 days, and Photo Countdown Widget every 3 weeks. Most recently, Kounts was updated on October 30, 2026 and Photo Countdown Widget on October 30, 2026.

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