Groupability vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Build habits and set goals
- Create accountability groups
- Friends confirm daily progress
- Earn points for achievements
- Track streaks
- Solo use option
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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.
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.
- Unlimited countdowns and count-ups
- Home-screen widget
- Customizable visualizations
- Workdays-only counting
- Pattern dates for floating holidays
- Apple Calendar sync
- Lock Screen widgets
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Groupability asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Groupability | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmartBookMe Inc | Hello Good Day LLC |
Customer experience
Groupability
Countdown
In-app purchases
Groupability
No in-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Countdown Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Countdown Premium$9.99





