Comparison

Countdown Pro vs Blackout Mode

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

Blackout Mode

Instantly dim your screen, silence all audio, and disable your camera flash with a single tap. Perfect for dark environments like concerts or cinemas, ensuring you don't disturb others.

Highlights
  • Screen blackout
  • Volume zero
  • Flash locked off
  • Single-tap activation
  • In-app camera with disabled flash
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You know that person. Phone blazing in a dark cinema. Ringtone cutting through a piano concerto. Flash firing at a concert. Don't be that person. Blackout is a single-tap utility that does three things the moment you activate it: Dims down your screen brightness, silences your volume to zero, and locks your camera flash permanently off within the in-app camera. No settings to dig through. No toggles to remember. Just tap, and disappear into the dark. What Blackout does: Screen blackout. No blinding brightness in the dark, no light pollution for the people around you. Volume zero. Drops to silent instantly. No surprise notifications, no accidental sounds, no embarrassing ringtones mid-performance. Flash locked off. Built-in camera keeps flash disabled permanently. Shoot the moment freely without blinding anyone around you. Made for: Concerts, live music, classical performances, theatres, cinemas, comedy shows, sports events, opera, ballet, lectures, religious services, anywhere you need to be invisible. One tap. That's it.

Screenshots

Countdown Pro4 screens
Blackout Mode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Blackout Mode at 5.0 against Countdown Pro's 3.6. Blackout Mode also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Countdown Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). 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 Blackout Mode sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blackout Mode holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Countdown Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Blackout Mode's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown Pro ships an update every 4 days, Blackout Mode daily. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countdown Pro versus Blackout Mode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown ProBlackout Mode
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRich Soft Co., LtdAlp Avanoglu

Customer experience

Countdown Pro

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

Blackout Mode

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown Pro

One-time1
  • Widget Lifetime$4.99
1 purchases

Blackout Mode

One-time1
  • Unlock Blackout Mode$4.99

Questions

Is Countdown Pro free?
Countdown Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blackout Mode free?
Blackout Mode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Countdown Pro or Blackout Mode?
Blackout Mode is rated higher. Countdown Pro averages 3.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Blackout Mode averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Countdown Pro or Blackout Mode have ads?
Neither Countdown Pro nor Blackout Mode shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Pro or Blackout Mode?
Countdown Pro ships an update every 4 days, and Blackout Mode daily. Most recently, Countdown Pro was updated on September 24, 2026 and Blackout Mode on August 22, 2026.

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