Comparison

TravelCountdown vs Vacation Countdown

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

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About

TravelCountdown

Features
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The best trips begin even before you leave. With TravelCountdown, you can keep track of your upcoming trips and watch the days count down until your vacation. Whether it’s a weekend getaway, a cruise, or a long-distance trip: Create your own personal countdown and look forward to what’s to come. YOUR TRIPS AT A GLANCE Save your destination, departure date, return date, and type of trip. Your overview shows you planned and past trips—with search, filters, and sorting options. EXCITEMENT YOU CAN SHARE Share your countdown as a customized card with friends and family. Your destination, date, and remaining days come together to create a personal travel greeting. RELAXED PREPARATION Keep your packing list and important notes right next to your trip details. This way, booking information, ideas, and last-minute preparations stay all in one place. TIMELY REMINDERS Set up reminders right when you create your trip. Choose how far in advance you want them, and get additional reminders the day before departure and on the day of departure. RIGHT ON YOUR WRIST Keep track of your upcoming trips with the Apple Watch app—without having to take out your iPhone every time. YOUR STYLE, YOUR EXCITEMENT A clean design, various color themes, and support for light and dark modes accompany you from the initial planning stage all the way to departure. GET MORE WITH TRAVELCOUNTDOWN PRO With Pro, you get unlimited trips, all widgets, additional color themes, and an ad-free app. Choose a weekly, monthly, or annual subscription. Family subscriptions allow for use via Apple Family Sharing. TravelCountdown is available in multiple languages and designed for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Where’s your next trip taking you? SUBSCRIPTIONS Payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be billed for the renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings in the App Store. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.horizoniq.at/datenschutz

About

Vacation Countdown

This app helps you plan and track your upcoming trips. It offers countdown widgets, smart packing lists, destination facts, and budget management. After your trip, it provides a recap and allows you to map your past travels.

Highlights
  • Live countdown widgets
  • Smart packing list templates
  • Destination facts (plug types, currency, prices)
  • Trip budget tracking
  • World map of visited places
  • Shareable trip recaps
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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

Screenshots

TravelCountdown4 screens
Vacation Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vacation Countdown at none against TravelCountdown's 6. Vacation Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. TravelCountdown sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Vacation Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TravelCountdown ships an update every 3 weeks, Vacation Countdown every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TravelCountdown versus Vacation Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTravelCountdownVacation Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJakob HohmannThiliax LLC

In-app purchases

6 purchases

TravelCountdown

Subscriptions6
  • Pro weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro Wöchentlich Familie$1.997 Days
  • Pro monthly$2.991 Month
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  • Pro monthly Family$3.991 Month
  • Pro yearly3 Days trial$22.991 Year
  • Pro yearly Family1 Year trial$29.991 Year
None

Vacation Countdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TravelCountdown free?
TravelCountdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vacation Countdown free?
Vacation Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TravelCountdown or Vacation Countdown have ads?
TravelCountdown shows ads; Vacation Countdown does not.
Which is updated more often, TravelCountdown or Vacation Countdown?
TravelCountdown ships an update every 3 weeks, and Vacation Countdown every 2 weeks. Most recently, TravelCountdown was updated on November 8, 2026 and Vacation Countdown on October 31, 2026.

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