Comparison

Kounts vs Let's Build Countdowns

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

Head to head
About

Kounts

This app helps you track important life events with stylish countdowns. Create custom events with photos, set personalized reminders, and organize them into categories. Share your countdowns as beautiful images and use home screen widgets to stay on track.

Highlights
  • Custom event creation with photos
  • Personalized one-off or recurring reminders
  • Up to 5 custom event categories
  • 10 customizable backgrounds
  • Shareable event countdown images
  • 4 home screen widget styles
  • Multi-language support
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

Let's Build Countdowns

Features
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Let’s Build Countdowns helps you look forward to the Moments that matter. Add birthdays, holidays, school trips, family visits, Christmas, weekends away, or anything else you are excited about. Then keep your next Moment close with bright, friendly widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Built around anticipation, Let’s Build Countdowns makes it simple to see what is coming next without turning it into a calendar, planner, or complicated productivity tool. Features: • Add your own Moments in seconds • Start quickly with family-friendly Moment templates • See your Next Up Moment at a glance • Choose icons and colours for each Moment • Show selected Moments in widgets • Home Screen widgets in multiple sizes • Lock Screen widgets • Local-first design with no accounts required Whether it is a birthday, a holiday, a school break, a family visit, or a special day you cannot wait for, Let’s Build Countdowns helps make the waiting part feel fun.

Screenshots

Kounts4 screens
Let's Build Countdowns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kounts at every 4 days against Let's Build Countdowns's every 8 days. Kounts also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Let's Build Countdowns's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Kounts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Let's Build Countdowns sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kounts ships an update every 4 days, Let's Build Countdowns every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Kounts versus Let's Build Countdowns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKountsLet's Build Countdowns
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel Caceiro AversariBrian Leary

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Kounts

Subscriptions1
  • Kounts Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Kounts Lifetime Member$19.99
1 purchases

Let's Build Countdowns

One-time1
  • Countdown Plus$2.99

Questions

Is Kounts free?
Kounts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Let's Build Countdowns free?
Let's Build Countdowns is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kounts or Let's Build Countdowns have ads?
Neither Kounts nor Let's Build Countdowns shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kounts or Let's Build Countdowns?
Kounts ships an update every 4 days, and Let's Build Countdowns every 8 days. Most recently, Kounts was updated on September 24, 2026 and Let's Build Countdowns on September 19, 2026.

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