Comparison

FunCountDown vs Countdown Widget Go

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

Head to head
About

FunCountDown

Features
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Fun CountDown makes it easy (and fun!) to track the moments that matter most. Whether it’s a birthday, vacation, anniversary, or a special goal, create a beautiful countdown in seconds and keep it front and center with widgets. Highlights: • Create unlimited countdowns for your events • Personalize with photo backgrounds, gradients, or dynamic shapes • Share a high‑quality image of your countdown with friends • Add Home Screen widgets for glanceable updates • Smart notifications: at event time, daily, weekly, monthly, or a set time before the event • Reorder your countdowns and edit anytime • Works great on all iPhone sizes Why you’ll love it: • Clean, friendly design that’s easy to use • Big, readable time remaining with days, hours, minutes, and seconds • Flexible background styles that make each countdown feel unique • Widgets that look great and update automatically Make every moment more exciting — start counting down today!

About

Countdown Widget Go

Features
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Countdown shows you exactly how long until the things you care about, or how long it's been since. Make one for a birthday, a trip, an anniversary, an exam, your last day at work, or just New Year. It sits on your Home Screen and your Lock Screen so you see it every time you pick up your phone. Every countdown is yours to customize. Pick an emoji, set a color or let it adapt to light and dark mode, drop in your own photo as the background, and tag it however you like. Set it as an all-day event or count down to the minute. Repeating events roll forward on their own, and the repeats are smart: "last Friday of the month" stays the last Friday instead of drifting to a fixed date. The widgets are the point for a lot of people. Single-event widgets come in four styles — a big number, a progress ring, a progress bar, or number tiles — for the Home Screen, plus circular, rectangular, and inline versions for the Lock Screen. Track several events at once with the medium and large widgets. Empty slots fill in with whatever's coming up next, and anything you pin jumps to the front. What you get: - Count down to a future date or up from a past one - Home Screen widgets in four styles, plus Lock Screen widgets - Your own photos as widget backgrounds - Smart repeats: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, including patterns like "2nd Tuesday" that don't drift - Emoji, custom colors, and tags - Pin your favorites and reorder by hand - Reminders the day before, a week before, or when the day arrives - Choose which units you see, from years down to seconds - Count only the days that matter by skipping weekends or any weekday you pick - Sort by soonest, latest, name, or date added - Works in nine languages Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no servers, no tracking. The app is free, has no ads, and nothing is locked behind a purchase.

Screenshots

FunCountDown4 screens
Countdown Widget Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FunCountDown at fortnightly against Countdown Widget Go's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FunCountDown ships an update fortnightly, Countdown Widget Go monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
FunCountDown versus Countdown Widget Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFunCountDownCountdown Widget Go
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.217.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua VucelichWanja Hemmerich

In-app purchases

None

FunCountDown

No in-app purchases

None

Countdown Widget Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FunCountDown free?
FunCountDown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget Go free?
Countdown Widget Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FunCountDown or Countdown Widget Go have ads?
Neither FunCountDown nor Countdown Widget Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FunCountDown or Countdown Widget Go?
FunCountDown ships an update fortnightly, and Countdown Widget Go monthly. Most recently, FunCountDown was updated on September 29, 2026 and Countdown Widget Go on September 28, 2026.

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