Comparison

Life Countdown vs avec.

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

Head to head
About

Life Countdown

Features
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Life Countdown A lifetime, counting down. Each month marks a dot. No pause. No redo. But the future is still yours. Features: Elegant dot matrix design - one dot per month Real-time countdown showing time left in current month Clear progress bar to visualize your life's journey Customizable birthday and life expectancy Make every month count. Give time true meaning.

About

avec.

This app allows couples, friends, and families to create a private shared diary. Document your journey together with entries, photos, and location mapping. Relive memories and plan future adventures.

Highlights
  • Private shared diary for couples
  • Collaborative entries with photos
  • Location mapping of memories
  • On This Day memory recall
  • Shared wishlists (Somedays)
  • Exportable diary and photobooks
Features
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Some moments are too good to keep to yourself, but you don't want to share them with the world, either. avec. is a private diary for couples, close friends, and families. Write entries together, relive memories on the day they happened, and build a living record of your relationship — one day at a time. A diary that belongs to both of you — Every diary is private and shared only between its members. Write about your day, add photos, react to each other's memories, and watch your story grow entry by entry. avec. feels like a journal and works like a conversation. Everywhere you've been, together — Tap the globe icon to see a map of every place you've visited as a dot on the map. Tap any pin to relive the memory — photos, notes, and all. The longer you use avec., the richer your map becomes. On This Day — Every morning, avec. surfaces what happened on this date in previous years. Tap to see the full entry, photos included. A quiet, beautiful way to remember how far you've come. Trips, beautifully captured — Planning a trip or just got back? Add it to your diary and let avec. do the rest. Import your photos and avec. automatically organizes them by day and place using GPS — so every stop is mapped, every moment is where it belongs. Somedays — a wishlist you share — Keep a running list of things you want to do together. Restaurants to try, places to visit, experiences to have. Filter by category or travel, and convert a someday into a trip when you're ready to make it happen. Export your story — on screen and in print — Turn your diary into a beautiful keepsake — or hold it in your hands. Export any entries or a full trip as a print-ready PDF, or order a real photobook delivered to your door. Choose your entries, pick a cover photo, and avec. does the rest: your photos, your words, your story — bound and shipped. Bulk photo import — Select photos from your library and avec. automatically groups them into entries by date. A year of memories, organized in seconds. Built for the way you actually live - Long press any entry to react with an emoji and leave a note for your partner - Location tagging with place search and automatic photo GPS detection - Dark and light mode, because moods change - Push notifications so you never miss a new entry - Fast search across everything you've written - Private by design — your diary is for you and who you share it with avec. For the moments worth keeping Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.

Screenshots

Life Countdown4 screens
avec.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life Countdown at none against avec.'s 6. avec.'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. avec. sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Life Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Countdown ships an update every 9 days, avec. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Life Countdown versus avec.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife Countdownavec.
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeralgormula Pte. Ltd.Avec Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

Life Countdown

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

avec.

Subscriptions6
  • Personal$4.991 Month
  • Group$9.991 Month
  • Organization$14.991 Month
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  • Personal$29.991 Year
  • Group$59.991 Year
  • Organization$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Life Countdown free?
Life Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is avec. free?
avec. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Life Countdown or avec. have ads?
Neither Life Countdown nor avec. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life Countdown or avec.?
Life Countdown ships an update every 9 days, and avec. every 3 days. Most recently, Life Countdown was updated on September 20, 2026 and avec. on July 2, 2026.

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