Comparison

Exam Countdowns vs Sherpa Study

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

Head to head
About

Exam Countdowns

This app helps students prepare for exams and deadlines with live countdowns, a focus timer, and progress tracking. Organize subjects, compete with friends on study time, and receive timely reminders to ensure you never miss an important date. It's designed to motivate you to start revising and manage your academic workload effectively.

Highlights
  • Live countdowns to exams and deadlines
  • Focus timer with tasks and alarms
  • Organize exams by subject
  • Friend leaderboards for focus time
  • Mark tracking and progress statistics
  • Customizable exam reminders
  • Widgets and Live Activities support
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ExamCountdowns makes your exams impossible to ignore - and helps you actually do the work. Add every exam, test and deadline, and watch the countdown push you to start revising. Study in proper sessions with a built-in focus timer, organise everything by subject, track your marks, and compete with friends on focus time. Timely reminders mean you’ll never miss the day. Built for GCSE, A level, IB, mocks and university finals. Designed and built by a student. No ads, ever. FEATURES Live countdowns in days, hours, minutes and seconds Focus timer with tasks - and a real alarm when your session ends Organise exams by subject Friends and a weekly focus-time leaderboard Share your exam timetable with friends Track your marks and see your progress Stats, streaks and personal records Customisable reminders so you never miss an exam Widgets and Live Activities Syncs with examcountdowns.com on desktop Beautiful light and dark modes PLUS Free to start. Plus unlocks unlimited exams and subjects, mark tracking, and full stats. Try it free for 7 days, then £9.99/year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: examcountdowns.com/terms Privacy: examcountdowns.com/privacy Questions or ideas? Email me at support@examcountdowns.com

About

Sherpa Study

This app helps GCSE students revise effectively by providing personalized study plans, practice questions, flashcards, and past papers. It aligns content with specific exam boards and tracks progress to focus on weaker topics.

Highlights
  • Personalized revision plans
  • Exam board-specific content
  • Thousands of practice questions
  • Flashcards with spaced repetition
  • Past papers and mark schemes
  • Confidence tracking
  • Study session timer
Features
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A plan, the questions, flashcards and the past papers - all matched to your exam board. Sherpa Study is GCSE revision without the guesswork about where to start. Free, no ads. YOUR SUBJECTS, YOUR SPECIFICATION • Pick your subjects by exam board and tier - AQA, Edexcel, OCR and more • You get the real specification, broken into modules and topics. Not a generic list. BUILD A REVISION PLAN • Set your revision goal for each week, and move sessions between days in the calendar • Create focused study sessions and set a timer • Log your confidence in each topic and leave notes for next time • Work on your weakest topics, and watch them stop being your weakest topics PRACTICE WITH REAL QUESTIONS • Thousands of practice questions across your subjects • Check your answers against the real mark scheme • Save your score and come back to the tricky ones later • Filter by easy, medium and hard LEARN FROM FLASHCARDS • Work through thousands of flashcards • Mark how easily you recalled the answer, and we'll show it again right before you'd have forgotten it PAST PAPERS WITHOUT THE HUNT • Real past papers and mark schemes for your specification, in one place • Log your score and see it improve paper by paper TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Rate your confidence topic by topic and watch it climb • See where you're strongest — and where your next hour is best spent BUILT BY SHERPA TUTORS Built by the team behind Sherpa Tutors - a leading UK tuition platform with a focus on qualified UK teachers. We want every student to get access to the planning, revision and learning tools that our tutored students get for free - and this is part of our work towards that.

Screenshots

Exam Countdowns4 screens
Sherpa Study4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sherpa Study at 5.0 against Exam Countdowns's 4.0. Sherpa Study also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Exam Countdowns's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Exam Countdowns sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per year. Sherpa Study asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sherpa Study holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exam Countdowns ships an update every 4 weeks, Sherpa Study every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 3 level
Exam Countdowns versus Sherpa Study: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExam CountdownsSherpa Study
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJagjit SinghApplication Labs Ltd

Customer experience

Exam Countdowns

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Sherpa Study

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Exam Countdowns

Subscriptions1
  • ExamCountdowns Plus7 Days trial$9.991 Year
None

Sherpa Study

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Exam Countdowns free?
Exam Countdowns is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sherpa Study free?
Sherpa Study is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Exam Countdowns or Sherpa Study?
Sherpa Study is rated higher. Exam Countdowns averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Sherpa Study averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Exam Countdowns or Sherpa Study have ads?
Neither Exam Countdowns nor Sherpa Study shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exam Countdowns or Sherpa Study?
Exam Countdowns ships an update every 4 weeks, and Sherpa Study every 6 months. Most recently, Exam Countdowns was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sherpa Study on October 30, 2026.

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