Comparison

Countdown Pro vs Countdown X

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

Head to head
About

Countdown Pro

Track important upcoming and past events with customizable countdowns. Monitor days remaining or elapsed for birthdays, holidays, goals, and more. Organize your dates with tags and filters, and view them on your home screen.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns
  • Days-left and days-since tracking
  • Emoji, photo, and color customization
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Repeating events and reminders
  • Shareable countdown cards
  • Offline use
Features
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Countdown Pro helps you track every important day in one simple app. Create countdowns for birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, exams, deadlines, weddings, holidays, trips, milestones, personal goals, bills, subscriptions, and more. Check how many days are left, or how many days have passed. FEATURES • Unlimited countdowns • Track upcoming and past events • Days-left and days-since tracking • Emoji, photo, and color customization • Tags, search, filtering, and grouping • Repeating events and reminders • Shareable countdown cards • Offline use with no account required PRO FEATURES • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Single-event and multiple-event widgets • Detailed time display • Lunar date support for birthdays and anniversaries • Archive past events USE COUNTDOWN FOR • Birthdays and anniversaries • Weddings and holidays • Vacations and trips • Exams, assignments, and deadlines • Meetings and work events • Fitness goals and personal milestones • Bills, renewals, and subscriptions Countdown is built to be fast, simple, and easy to check every day. Keep all your important dates organized and never miss what matters. SUPPORT & LEGAL • Contact: support@richsoft.app • Privacy Policy: https://richsoft.app/countdown/privacy • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Countdown X

Easily track important upcoming dates and events with customizable widgets. Get smart reminders and organize everything from birthdays to deadlines at a glance.

Highlights
  • Track important events
  • Customizable widgets
  • Smart reminders
  • Event organization
  • Ad-free experience (Pro)
  • iCloud sync (Pro)
Features
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Countdown X is a simple, beautiful countdown app for the days that matter to you. Count down to birthdays, vacations, weddings, anniversaries, holidays, launches and deadlines, and see how many days are left at a glance on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Count Down to Anything Create a countdown in seconds: pick a date and time or make it all-day, choose its colors and style, and add notes. Set events to repeat every day, week, two weeks, month or year, so birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own. Start from a template to count down to the end of the year, season or month in one tap. See Your Progress Show the time remaining or the percentage of progress, and set a start date to measure progress from any moment you like. Use Excluded Days to skip the weekdays that don't count, like weekends, and see only the workdays left until a deadline. Widgets and Live Countdown Keep your countdowns in view with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and tap any widget to open its event. Turn on Live Countdown to follow an event's final 8 hours on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, perfect for a flight, a launch or the start of a party. Reminders Get a reminder the moment your countdown reaches zero, and turn reminders on or off for each event. Reminders are free for everyone. Organize Your Events See which event is next on one clean dashboard and filter your events by Upcoming, Today, This Week, This Month, Later or Past. Duplicate any event in one tap, copy an event's colors and style and paste them onto another countdown, and blur a title to keep a surprise private. Share the Excitement Share any countdown as an image, sized for Instagram Stories, TikTok, feed posts and Messages, or save it to Photos. Works With Your iPhone Find your countdowns in Spotlight, create an event with Siri or Shortcuts, and add a new countdown in one tap from Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button. Import events from Calendar and Reminders, and keep everything in sync across your iPhone and iPad with iCloud. Countdown X Premium Countdown X is free with up to three events. Premium unlocks: - Unlimited events - Repeating events - Percentage progress display - Blur Title for private events - Calendar and Reminders import - Share images without the watermark or background Choose a monthly or yearly plan, or pay once with Lifetime. Private by Design No account is required. Your events stay on your device and in your own iCloud. Terms of service: https://countdownx.app/terms Privacy policy: https://countdownx.app/privacy

Screenshots

Countdown Pro4 screens
Countdown X4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown Pro at 81% against Countdown X's 0%. Countdown Pro also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Countdown X's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown X sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdown X holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Countdown X's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown Pro ships an update every 4 days, Countdown X every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Countdown Pro versus Countdown X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown ProCountdown X
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (5 ratings)4.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRich Soft Co., LtdPlainzer

Customer experience

Countdown Pro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.5%

Countdown X

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown Pro

One-time1
  • Widget Lifetime$6.99
4 purchases

Countdown X

Subscriptions3
  • Countdown Pro Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Countdown Pro Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Countdown Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Countdown Pro free?
Countdown Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown X free?
Countdown X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown Pro or Countdown X?
Countdown X is rated higher. Countdown Pro averages 3.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Countdown X averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Countdown Pro or Countdown X have ads?
Neither Countdown Pro nor Countdown X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Pro or Countdown X?
Countdown Pro ships an update every 4 days, and Countdown X every 2 weeks. Most recently, Countdown Pro was updated on November 5, 2026 and Countdown X on November 5, 2026.

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