Life Countdown vs SimplyRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Life Countdown
This app helps you visualize your remaining time by calculating days lived and days left based on your birthday and expected lifespan. It offers a deep space theme, extensive iOS widgets, and prioritizes user privacy with local data storage. All core features are free to use.
- Calculates days lived and remaining
- Personalized expected lifespan setting
- Deep space theme
- Extensive iOS widgets
- Local data storage
- 14 language support
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In our fast-paced life, we often forget time is finite. Life Countdown shows your days lived and remaining in an intuitive countdown—so you cherish every moment. Enter your birthday and expected lifespan to start. Completely free, no ads. Core Features • Precise calculation of days lived and remaining, at a glance • Personalized expected lifespan setting—plan your life by your expectations • Deep space theme design, immersive experience • Rich iOS widgets: 12+ types for home screen and lock screen, covering year/month/day/hour/minute/second progress • Supports 14 languages Widget System • Home screen and lock screen widgets in circular, rectangular, inline styles • Control Center widget (iOS 18+) for quick access • Statistics widget showing remaining time • Smart color adaptation to system theme • Glass effect design with semi-transparent background • Optimized update frequency for different time dimensions Privacy & Data • All data stored locally on your device only • No personal information collected or uploaded • No internet required; delete app to clear all data Completely Free • All core features free to use • No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions • Regular updates, more free features in development Planned Features • Life milestone recording • Personalized time reminders • Life statistics charts • More themes and animations Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/leilei0091/Lifeless-Privacy-Policy-2545e372803f80649426e06ec5921809?source=copy_link Feedback: leilei0091@icloud.com
SimplyRead
This app allows you to read and listen to your own e-books in various formats. Customize typography, scroll through pages, and bookmark your progress. It also offers natural voice narration and library management features.
- Customizable typography and themes
- Page-by-page or continuous scroll
- Automatic chapter detection
- Natural voice narration with highlighting
- Import from Files app, clipboard, or URL
- Built-in editor with Find & Replace
- iCloud Drive backup and restore
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A book you can read — and listen to. SimplyRead opens TXT, EPUB and Markdown files as real books, with clothbound covers, expressive typography and paper textures. Read at your own pace, or listen with natural iOS voices. READ - Comfortable typography with five paper themes and Light or Dark appearance - Page by page, or one continuous scroll — whichever you prefer - Chapters found automatically, including Chinese numeral titles, with a panel to jump anywhere in the book - Bookmarks, find-in-book with highlighted matches, and a Continue Reading card that puts you back where you stopped - Adjust fonts, text size and line spacing, with layouts for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad LISTEN - High-quality iOS system voices, at a speed you set - The sentence being spoken is highlighted, and the page follows along - Sleep timer, plus Lock Screen and Control Center controls — keep listening with the screen off BUILD YOUR LIBRARY - Import from the Files app, create a file straight from your clipboard, or download from a URL and watch it arrive - Discover books from public catalogs and open-license sources, with clear labels for downloadable files, online reading and catalog pages - Book covers, clear author labels, folder sorting and destination folders to keep a long shelf tidy EDIT AND KEEP - A built-in editor with Find & Replace, undo for whole-book replacements, recovery after failed saves, and a Fix New Lines tool - iCloud Drive backup and restore for the whole library, reading positions included FREE AND PRO Your own files, the entire reader, themes, chapters, bookmarks and backup are unlimited and free. Pro lifts the daily listening allowance and the download limit. Download availability depends on the source and its access terms. Only import or download content you are entitled to use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SimplyRead at Free against Life Countdown's $4.99. SimplyRead also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Life Countdown's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, 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
SimplyRead is free to download; Life Countdown costs $4.99 up front. SimplyRead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Life Countdown ships an update monthly, SimplyRead weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Life Countdown | SimplyRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 雷雷 张 | 阳 张 |
Customer experience
Life Countdown
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In-app purchases
Life Countdown
No in-app purchases
SimplyRead
- Pro User$1.99









