Countdown Pro vs Blackout Mode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Countdown Pro | Blackout Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rich Soft Co., Ltd | Alp Avanoglu |
Customer experience
Countdown Pro
Blackout Mode
In-app purchases
Countdown Pro
- Widget Lifetime$4.99
Blackout Mode
- Unlock Blackout Mode$4.99





