Awake vs Countdown widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Awake
This utility app prevents your device's screen from automatically locking, ensuring uninterrupted access. It's particularly useful for time-sensitive online queues and events where you need to maintain your position without interruption.
- Prevents screen auto-lock
- Uses Picture-in-Picture
- One-tap start/stop
- Lightweight floating window
- Fast and reliable sessions
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Keep your screen on when it matters most. Awake starts a lightweight Picture-in-Picture session that helps prevent Auto-Lock on iPhone and iPad. Tap Start to keep your display awake while you wait, read, cook, monitor, or hold your place in a time-sensitive queue. Useful for: - ticket drops and preorder queues - recipes, instructions, timers, and checklists - reference pages, dashboards, and monitoring screens Important: Awake uses iOS Picture in Picture/media playback. While it is active, other audio or video may pause. Simple one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No account. No data collected.
Countdown widgets
Easily track upcoming events with a clean and simple interface. View your events at a glance with home screen widgets and customize backgrounds. Supports repeating events and flexible tracking for future or past dates.
- Home screen widgets
- Quick event creation
- Customizable backgrounds
- Repeating event options
- Count down or track time passed
- Privacy focused
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Pebble is a clean and simple way to track your upcoming events. Features: - Home Screen Widgets: View your events at a glance. - Quick & Easy: Simple interface to create and manage dates. - Custom Backgrounds: Use your own photos or choose from solid colors. - Repeating Events: Weekly, monthly, and yearly options. - Flexible Tracking: Count down to future events or track time passed. - Privacy Focused: No data collection or sign-ups.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Countdown widgets at Free against Awake's $1.99. Countdown widgets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On ads, 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
Countdown widgets is free to download; Awake costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Countdown widgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown widgets has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Awake | Countdown widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Kitcoff | Marcus Gunn |
In-app purchases
Awake
No in-app purchases
Countdown widgets
No in-app purchases
Questions
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