Comparison

Reach vs Countdown Widget

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

Head to head
About

Reach

Create personalized countdowns for important events, people, and goals. Stay connected with loved ones, track moments in real-time, and receive timely reminders. Organize all your life's events with customizable widgets and calendar sync.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdowns
  • Real-time tracking (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
  • Personalized moments with photos and emojis
  • Gentle reminder notifications
  • Multiple event organization
  • Cross-device sync and sharing
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Calendar sync
Features
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Create beautiful, customizable countdowns for the people, places, and memories that matter most. Whether you're counting down to a trip, a birthday, a reunion, or your next big goal, Reach keeps you inspired, excited, and emotionally connected. KEY FEATURES - Stay Connected: Designed for long-distance couples, families, and friends. Feel closer even when you're apart. - Accurate & Beautiful Countdowns: Track days, hours, minutes, and seconds in real time with a sleek, modern design. - Personalized Moments: Add photos, names, and emojis to make every countdown uniquely yours. - Reminders That Matter: Get gentle notifications as your special moment draws near. - Organize Life's Important Events: Manage multiple countdowns at once. Count down to anniversaries, pregnancies, Valentine's Day, weddings, Thanksgiving, Christmas, holidays, concerts, retirement, launches, and more. - Sync & Share: Access your countdowns across devices and share them with the people you love. - Widgets: Keep your favorite countdowns on your Home or Lock Screen with live-updating, beautifully designed widgets. - Dark Mode: Enjoy a sleek dark theme that's easy on your eyes, day and night. - Calendar Sync: Import events from your phone's calendar or export your countdowns to stay on top of what matters most. - Tags & Filters: Organize your countdowns with custom tags and filter your list so the ones that matter are always easy to find. WHY REACH? Because waiting doesn't have to feel distant. Reach transforms anticipation into a feeling of connection: one day, one moment, one heartbeat at a time. Start counting toward what matters most. Download Reach: Countdown to Connect today and make every second a step closer to your next big moment. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: https://www.reachus.app/en/terms https://www.reachus.app/en/privacy

About

Countdown Widget

Visually appealing countdowns for all your important dates, displayed on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, and more. Features AI-generated backgrounds and precise time tracking.

Highlights
  • AI-generated photo backgrounds
  • Countdown to exact time (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
  • Live Activity and Dynamic Island integration
  • Multiple widget placements (Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy)
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Multi-event widget with progress bars
Features
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DayDrop is the countdown widget for iPhone that shows the days until everything you're looking forward to — Christmas, your wedding, a birthday, vacation, or the day your baby arrives — right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. "Finally, a countdown app that actually looks good on my Home Screen." See your most important days counting down from everywhere: Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, iPad, and StandBy. WHY PEOPLE LOVE DAYDROP • Beautiful AI-generated photo backgrounds — describe any event and get a stunning, one-of-a-kind photo backdrop in seconds. • Countdown to the exact moment — set a specific time on any event and watch days, hours, minutes, and seconds tick down live. • Your photo in the Dynamic Island — your event's background shows live in the Dynamic Island and Live Activity, with a progress ring. • 10 widget placements — Home Screen (small, medium, large, extra-large), multi-event widget, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Control Center. • Multi-event widget with progress bars — several countdowns at a glance. • iPad optimized — adaptive layouts, ExtraLarge widget, and a roomier overview. • iCloud sync — your countdowns move with you across iPhone and iPad. Always in sync, always private. • Share cards — send your countdown to anyone. • Badge countdown on app icon — glance at your Home Screen, see days left. • Liquid Glass, iOS 26 native — designed for Apple's latest design language. • Orbital year view — your whole year of countdowns in a single circular timeline. POWERFUL & PERSONAL • Count up and down from any date • 8 categories — Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries, Holidays, Vacations, Work, Fitness, Custom • Recurring events — annual, monthly, weekly, or biweekly • Milestone notifications — 30, 14, 7, 3 days before • Celebration confetti on the big day • Pin your most important events • Import birthdays from Contacts in one tap • Gyroscope parallax and tactile scroll animations A CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN, A NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN, AND EVERY DAY WORTH WAITING FOR How many days until Christmas? Until New Year's Eve? Until Halloween, the concert, your exam, retirement, or the trip you've been planning all year? DayDrop keeps the answer one glance away — as a widget, on your Lock Screen, or with Siri: just ask "how many days until my event in DayDrop." LOCK SCREEN, DONE RIGHT Category icons on your Lock Screen widgets, with desaturated backgrounds so your countdown stays glanceable. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into 16 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your countdowns stay on your devices and in your iCloud. We don't sell your data. DAYDROP PREMIUM Premium unlocks AI photo backgrounds, Live Activity and Dynamic Island, every widget placement, watermark-free share cards, unlimited pins, custom milestone notifications, iCloud sync, and the orbital year view. Plans and pricing are shown in the app. Questions? Email daydrop@beatroot.dev or visit daydrop.beatroot.dev. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Reach4 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

Reach and Countdown Widget both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Reach's written reviews are positive against 86% of Countdown Widget's. Reach also leads on ratings volume (73 vs 20) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Reach sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Reach against 4.8 for Countdown Widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 73 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Reach's written reviews are positive against 86% of Countdown Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reach ships an update every 5 days, Countdown Widget weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Reach versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReachCountdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (73 ratings)4.8 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings73 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSylvain FertonsHirak Banerjee

Customer experience

Reach

All ratings73 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral1.4%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Countdown Widget

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Reach

One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime Access$6.99
3 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • Annual Premium1 Month trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$24.99

Questions

Is Reach free?
Reach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reach or Countdown Widget?
Countdown Widget is rated higher. Reach averages 4.7 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Countdown Widget averages 4.8 from 20 ratings.
Do Reach or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Reach nor Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reach or Countdown Widget?
Reach ships an update every 5 days, and Countdown Widget weekly. Most recently, Reach was updated on September 9, 2026 and Countdown Widget on September 24, 2026.

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