Comparison

Groupability vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Groupability

This app helps you build habits and achieve goals with friends or solo. Create accountability groups where friends must confirm your daily progress to earn points and celebrate achievements.

Highlights
  • Build habits and set goals
  • Create accountability groups
  • Friends confirm daily progress
  • Earn points for achievements
  • Track streaks
  • Solo use option
Features
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Build habits, set goals, and celebrate achievements with your best friend, significant other, parents, siblings, coworkers, classmates, or use it solo! Create Accountability Groups to track goals in groups with your friends. Here's the catch: Only your friends can mark your day as completed! That's right. In order to accomplish a day, all users in a group must indicate that you were locked in that day. Earn points for your group by completing days, reaching goals, and setting streaks.

About

Countdown

Track upcoming events and past milestones with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Offers a free tier with essential features and a premium upgrade for advanced visualizations and integrations. Designed for a calm, glanceable experience.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns and count-ups
  • Home-screen widget
  • Customizable visualizations
  • Workdays-only counting
  • Pattern dates for floating holidays
  • Apple Calendar sync
  • Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Count down to what matters. No ads. No account. Your countdowns sync privately through iCloud, so a new phone never means starting over. THE BASICS, FREE - Unlimited countdowns and count-ups (days since) - A free home-screen widget — no paywall on the basics - Beautiful editorial cards with curated colors - Tags, custom views, search, and archive - Workdays-only counting that skips weekends - Pattern dates like "3rd Sunday of May" for floating holidays PREMIUM Unlock everything with a one-time purchase. - Every visualization: dot grid, segments, rings, flip clock, bloom, orbit, temperature and more - Year Grid: every day of the year in one screen, your events shown as emoji - Photo backgrounds and a glass card style that shows your wallpaper through - Custom fonts, decorations, and the full colour picker - Multi-event and Lock Screen widgets - Reminder notifications and two-way Apple Calendar sync DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM A warm, editorial look with custom typography — built for glancing, not fiddling. If dates sneak up on you (hello, time blindness), the grid shows everything coming at a glance, and Live Activities keep the big day on your Lock Screen. Prefer to buy once? The Lifetime unlock is a single purchase — no renewal, no expiry. Countdown Premium is also available as a subscription: • Monthly — $1.99/month • Annual — $6.99/year, with a 3-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://hellogoodday.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://hellogoodday.com/countdown/terms

Screenshots

Groupability3 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Groupability at none against Countdown's 3. Groupability also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.4). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (5 vs 3). On price 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. Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Groupability asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Groupability holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Groupability versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupabilityCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmartBookMe IncHello Good Day LLC

Customer experience

Groupability

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Countdown

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Groupability

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions2
  • Countdown Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Countdown Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Countdown Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Groupability free?
Groupability is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Groupability or Countdown?
Groupability is rated higher. Groupability averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Countdown averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Groupability or Countdown have ads?
Neither Groupability nor Countdown shows ads.

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