Soon vs Clean Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Soon
Create unlimited countdowns and widgets for your lock and home screens. Customize colors, fonts, icons, and backgrounds for any event. Schedule recurring events and sync across timezones.
- Unlimited countdown widgets
- Lock screen and home screen widgets
- Customizable colors, fonts, and icons
- Recurring event scheduling
- Background image support
- Live timers
- Timezone support
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I built this app because I couldn't find what I needed. I hope you find it useful too. I was looking for a simple countdown app with widgets for iOS, but every app I found either required a subscription, charged money, or limited how many widgets I could create. So, I built Soon-ish, a completely free countdown app with unlimited widgets, no subscriptions, and no hidden fees. **Unlimited Widgets, Completely Free** Create as many countdowns and widgets as you want. Track birthdays, holidays, Twitch streams, or any important moment. All widgets are free, forever. **Types of Widgets** • Lock Screen Widgets: See your countdowns right on your lock screen • Home Screen Widgets: Small, medium, and large sizes • Live Timers: Real-time countdown that updates every second • Dynamic Island: pin a countdown to the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen as a Live Activity • Customizable Display: Choose to show days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds **Full-ish Customizability** • Custom Colors: Pick any color for text and backgrounds • Custom Icons: Choose from hundreds of icons (Ionicons & MaterialIcons) • Custom Fonts: Select from multiple font families • Background Images: Use your own photos as backgrounds • Background Overlays: Adjust brightness and contrast for perfect readability • Multiple Themes: Light, dark, and custom color schemes **Smart-ish Recurring Events** • Daily: Countdowns that repeat every day • Weekly: Set specific days of the week • Monthly: Same day each month • Yearly: Annual events like birthdays and holidays • Custom Schedule: Create complex recurring patterns with multiple time slots **Notifications** • Get alerted the moment a countdown completes • Optional reminders before and follow-ups after • Write your own notification message **Integrations** • Twitch: Countdown to your favorite streamers' next streams! • Holidays: Browse and add popular holidays and events! • Share Countdowns: Share your countdowns with friends via link! **Other Features** • Clock Mode: Full-screen countdown display • Timezone Support: Track events across different timezones • Granularity Control: Show exactly the time units you want • Sort & Organize: Customize the order of your countdowns • Background Sync: Automatic updates for imported countdowns **No Subscriptions, No Limits** Soonish is completely free with no in-app purchases required. Create unlimited countdowns, use all features, and enjoy beautiful widgets without ever paying a cent.
Clean Countdown Widget
This utility displays the number of days until a significant event. It offers customization for event names, dates, typefaces, and background colors, with support for light and dark modes. The app also tracks days since an event has passed and requires no login or data collection.
- Displays days until an event
- Customizable event name and date
- Typeface customization
- Background color options
- Light and Dark appearance modes
- Counts days since an event
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The Clean Countdown widget shows you how many days away an important event is. It's designed to be simple but customizable with no ads or logins. Set the name of your event and a date, and the widget will show how many days away that event is. You can customize the typeface by swiping on the countdown number in the app, and customize the background color by swiping through a few color options. The app supports Light and Dark appearance modes. After the event, the app will tell you how many days it has been since that day if you want to count up from a particular day. No login required, no data collected, no advertisements. This is the kind of countdown app that I wanted for myself, so I created it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clean Countdown Widget at none against Soon's 4. Clean Countdown Widget also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Soon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Clean Countdown Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clean Countdown Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Soon ships an update weekly, Clean Countdown Widget every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Soon | Clean Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (21 ratings) | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | THOMAS VAN DE CROMMENACKER | Matthew Richardson |
Customer experience
Soon
Clean Countdown Widget
In-app purchases
Soon
- Small Tip$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
Clean Countdown Widget
No in-app purchases
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