Comparison

Another Countdown App vs Beacon

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

Head to head
About

Another Countdown App

Effortlessly track important upcoming events with customizable countdowns. View them on your home screen with widgets, receive smart notifications, and personalize the app's appearance. Automate event creation with Shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdown creation
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Full-screen countdown view
  • Smart notifications
  • Customizable appearance
  • Shortcuts automation
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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Your moments, beautifully counted. Another Countdown App makes it effortless to track the events that matter most. Whether it’s a birthday, a vacation, an anniversary, or something uniquely yours, your countdowns are always just a glance away. Create unlimited countdowns, customize their look, and enjoy smart, context-aware notifications powered by on-device intelligence. FEATURES • Create unlimited countdowns Add as many countdowns as you want — for anything. Name them, pick an emoji, choose a date, and you're done. • At-a-glance Home Screen widgets See your most important upcoming events directly on your Home Screen. Widgets update throughout the day so you always know what’s next. • Beautiful full-screen countdowns Open any countdown to see the big picture with a clear, animated breakdown of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. • Smart notifications that understand context Get friendly, relevant reminders that feel personal to the event • Customize the look of the app Choose from multiple card styles and colors to match your vibe. Make the app feel truly yours. • Automate with Shortcuts Quickly create countdowns using Shortcuts. Build automations that add events based on your workflows. • Dark Mode supported Looks great in both Light Mode and Dark Mode Start counting the days — beautifully.

About

Beacon

Features
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Beacon is a fast, opinionated Wi-Fi analyzer for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Lock Screen. It scans your local network, lists every device, runs the tools network people actually use, and translates the jargon for you in plain English using AI. It is built around three rules: 1. Stay on the phone. Scans, ports, latencies, MAC addresses — none of it ever leaves your device. There are no analytics, no telemetry, no accounts. 2. Show, don't gate. Every tool, every screen, every device is one tap away. No "Pro" tier. No subscription. No locked features. 3. Translate the jargon. The on-device AI explainer (Apple Foundation Models) tells you what an open port is, why a hop is slow, or whether a new device is something to worry about. In one or two sentences. No emojis. WHAT'S INSIDE • Home — live speed, signal, latency, and device count, with an AI summary that reads your network the way a friend who knows networks would. • Devices — every device on your LAN, grouped by role. Fingerprint chips show the device kind plus a manufacturer initial. Pull-to-rescan; new devices show up as a top group, not a badge. • Device detail — identity, response-time graph, open ports with descriptions. The AI calls out which ports are normal for that device kind and which are worth a second look. • Speed test — single-purpose, animated 270° gauge. Result quartet of download, upload, latency, jitter. AI verdict instead of a raw percentile. • Tools — Ping, Traceroute, Port scanner, DNS lookup, Whois, DNS leak test, TLS / cert inspector, Public IP info. Each is its own screen, never a tab inside a tab. • Traceroute — geo-mapped hops with ASN and country. AI summary calls out the slow link by hop number. • History — a timeline of every scan, day-grouped. New and departed devices flagged inline. Compare any two scans side by side. • Apple Watch — devices count is the hero. Network identity, signal, current speed. Tap to open the iPhone app. • Lock Screen widgets — inline, circular, and rectangular. Add one or all three. Tap-through opens the relevant tab. • Home Screen widget — the full hero stat with a coral background. • Privacy — read the actual privacy statement, not a link to legalese, the first time you open Settings. WHAT'S NOT INSIDE No accounts. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking SDKs. No "free trial". No ML model trained on your data. No background uploads. No share-with-friends nag. Pay once - use forever. REQUIREMENTS iOS 26 or later. Apple Intelligence is required for on-device AI explainers; Beacon falls back to plainspoken static text if it's off. Location permission is required by iOS to read your Wi-Fi network name (SSID); Beacon never records or shares your location.

Screenshots

Another Countdown App4 screens
Beacon4 screens

Verdict

The call

Another Countdown App and Beacon are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Another Countdown App versus Beacon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnother Countdown AppBeacon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDquavius GriffinDavid Weisz

In-app purchases

None

Another Countdown App

No in-app purchases

None

Beacon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Another Countdown App free?
Another Countdown App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beacon free?
Beacon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Another Countdown App or Beacon have ads?
Neither Another Countdown App nor Beacon shows ads.

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