Plan vs Vacation Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plan
This app helps you organize upcoming trips with visual countdowns and smart planning tools. Set timely reminders for pre-trip tasks and sync your plans across devices. Turn the anticipation of travel into part of the adventure.
- Visual countdowns with photo cards
- Smart trip planning with destinations and transport
- Customizable timely reminders
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Data export and import
- Clean, intuitive design
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Plan-It transforms your travel dreams into organized reality. Whether you're counting down to a weekend getaway or planning a grand adventure, our beautifully designed app keeps your excitement alive while ensuring you're always prepared. Key Features: Visual Countdowns - Watch the days tick away with stunning photo cards for each destination. Your trips become visual stories before they even begin. Smart Trip Planning - Add destinations, choose your transportation method (plane, car, or train), and customize each trip with your own photos to make every countdown uniquely yours. Timely Reminders - Never forget important pre-trip tasks with customizable notifications. Set default reminders or adjust them for each individual journey. iCloud Sync - Access your travel countdowns across all your Apple devices. Start planning on your iPhone and check your countdown on your iPad. Data Management - Export your trip history, import travel plans, and keep your memories organized with easy backup options. Clean, Intuitive Design - A minimalist interface that puts your travels front and center. No clutter, just your adventures beautifully displayed. Perfect for: Frequent travelers tracking multiple trips Couples counting down to honeymoons or anniversaries Families organizing vacations Business travelers managing work trips Anyone who loves the anticipation of an upcoming journey Start your countdown today and turn waiting into part of the adventure!
Vacation Countdown
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Forty-one days. You know the number without opening anything, because it sits on your Home Screen counting down to the morning you leave. Giovex is a countdown to your next trip, a packing list that knows how long you are going for, a budget that survives the trip, and a map of everywhere you have already been. No account, and nothing leaves your phone. THE WAIT A live countdown — days, hours, minutes, seconds — on a boarding-pass trip card carrying your own photo or a bundled cover. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in five sizes count down natively and roll over at midnight without the app being opened. A Live Activity puts the same number on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Reminders arrive a week out, the day before, on arrival day and on the day you head home. PACKING THAT KNOWS HOW LONG YOU ARE GOING Eight templates — city, beach and resort, business, alpine and snow, mountain and hike, cruise, cultural, family. A 7-night trip generates 7 pairs of underwear, 3 pairs of pants and 2 sweaters, with a laundry ceiling that adds detergent instead of two weeks of socks. Add your own items, sort by category, tick them off as you go. REAL FACTS ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE GOING Plug types with pictures, voltage, currency, the current local time, and typical coffee and meal prices, across 240 countries. Where there is no reliable data, Giovex shows nothing rather than a plausible-looking default — people buy travel adapters off this screen, so a confident guess is worse than a blank. WHILE YOU ARE THERE The countdown becomes "Day 3 of 9". Set a budget and Giovex suggests a split across seven categories: food and drink, accommodation, transport, flights, shopping, activities and miscellaneous. Log expenses, see what is spent and what is left, and get told whether you are on track, nearing the limit or over it. Split the bill and work out the tip without leaving the app. Export it all as PDF or CSV. WHEN YOU GET BACK A shareable recap card in three designs: a poster, a stats card, and an atlas card drawn from the outline of the country you visited. Finished trips stay fully browsable — packing list, budget, to-do list, destination facts. THE MAP BETWEEN TRIPS Fill in a world map of everywhere you have been, by country and by city: 5,100+ cities across 240 countries, with a country's fill deepening as you add more of its cities. Three tabs — Passport for where you have been, Wishlist for where you want to go, and Collections. Collections are the 19 regions people already have a name for: the Nordics, the Baltics, Benelux, Iberia, the British Isles, the Alps, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, the Gulf, the Maghreb, East, West and Southern Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes and Oceania. Nearly-finished sets sort to the top — "The Nordics · 1 country to go" — and finishing one gets confetti and a share card. Trips import onto the map on their own, and countries can be added in bulk, so filling it in is never a city-by-city chore. Your headline numbers are countries, continents and cities, plus how far you have traveled from your home city: "122,200 km · 3× around the equator". Never a percentage of the world. Trip titles are matched against real places, so "Paris, France", "kyoto japan", "München" and "Two weeks in New York" all resolve to the right destination and bring the facts and the map progress with them. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is no sign-up and no login. Your trips, notes, budgets and map live on your device rather than in somebody's database. Analytics are opt-in, and never carry trip titles, notes or amounts. No ads, no subscription and no in-app purchases. Available in English, German, French, Turkish and Simplified Chinese. Privacy: https://thiliax.com/giovex-privacy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://thiliax.com/support.html
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Verdict
Plan and Vacation Countdown are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Plan against 5.0 for Vacation Countdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Plan | Vacation Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RIFT CO | Thiliax LLC |
Customer experience
Plan
Vacation Countdown
In-app purchases
Plan
No in-app purchases
Vacation Countdown
No in-app purchases
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