Waitit vs RetirementTracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Waitit
Visually appealing widgets for your home and lock screens to count down to important events. Customize themes, backgrounds, fonts, and more. Also supports counting up from past events.
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable themes and backgrounds
- Count up mode for anniversaries
- Calendar and Reminders sync
- Countdown sharing
- Pre-designed templates
- Custom app icons
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Waitit turns waiting into something beautiful. Count down the days to birthdays, weddings, vacations, exams, and every milestone that matters — right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with gorgeous widgets. STUNNING WIDGET THEMES Choose from a collection of professionally designed themes with 70+ color combinations. Preview any theme with different countdown states before applying it, so your widget always looks exactly the way you want. MAKE IT YOURS - Custom background and font colors, plus curated color palettes for one-tap styling - Your own photos or the built-in Unsplash collection as backgrounds - Different font families, icons, emoji, and personal avatars - Multiple widget sizes for the Home Screen and a growing set of Lock Screen layouts - Percentage progress format - Flexible date formats: pick which time units to display or exclude weekends — perfect for work and school countdowns COUNT UP MODE Not just countdowns — track the time since any important event. Celebrate anniversaries, sobriety milestones, relationship beginnings, and more. COUNTDOWN DETAIL VIEW Tap any countdown for a breathtaking full-screen view with a unique layout for every theme, and quick access to edit, duplicate, delete, and share. COUNTDOWN SHARING Turn any countdown into a stunning, ready-to-post image in different formats and share your excitement with friends and family. INSPIRATION LIBRARY Browse dozens of pre-designed templates organized by category and start any countdown with one tap — your dates, our designs. STAY ORGANIZED - Sort and filter countdowns on the home screen - Powerful search across your events - Smart reminders and notifications for any countdown - Repeating events: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly — perfect for birthdays and anniversaries CALENDAR & REMINDERS SYNC - Import any iOS Calendar event as a beautiful countdown with one tap - Sync your countdowns with the Apple Reminders app and stay on track across Apple's ecosystem - Events refresh automatically every time you open the app CUSTOM APP ICONS Personalize your home screen with 20+ unique app icons that match your style. FREE TO START, PRO TO UNLOCK MORE Free: countdowns with the classic Standard theme, all customization options, Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets, reminders and notifications. Pro (one-time purchase): unlimited countdowns, premium widget themes, calendar and reminders sync, filters and sort, watermark-free sharing, custom app icons. WE LOVE FEEDBACK Your ideas make Waitit better: feature@ueasyserve.com Make every countdown count with Waitit. Download now and start counting the days to what matters.
RetirementTracker
This app tracks the remaining workdays until your retirement, deducting weekends, public holidays, and vacation. It offers customizable plans, milestones, and reminders to keep your retirement goal in sight. View your progress with interactive calendar pages and share your countdown visually.
- Workday countdown
- Deducts weekends, holidays, and vacation
- Customizable retirement plans
- Milestones and reminders
- Interactive calendar page
- Shareable countdown images
- Supports 22 countries' public holidays
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How many workdays are left until you retire? RetirementTracker counts not just the calendar days until your retirement date, but your real workdays – weekends, your region's public holidays and your vacation are already deducted. Up to date every day, live down to the second. Whether retirement is months or many years away, RetirementTracker keeps your finish line in view. THE LIVING CALENDAR PAGE • Your countdown as a tear-off calendar: tap the page to see calendar days, workdays, weeks or percent • On each new day, yesterday's sheet tears off • Quote of the day: save your favorites or share them • Your next milestone, plus the Mondays, weekends, paydays and public holidays still ahead of you • Career progress: what percentage of your working life is already behind you? • Share your countdown as an image – in two designs • A calm design in light and dark, with your own photo if you like TRANSPARENT CALCULATION No guesswork: "How it's calculated" shows how your workdays add up – calendar days minus days off, public holidays and vacation, including the vacation you haven't planned yet. YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN, YOUR RULES • Retirement date, workweek (full-time, part-time or your own workdays), vacation days per year and the days you have left this year • Work phases: fewer workdays, a release from work before retirement, or a last workday before your retirement date • Scenarios: save what-if plans, compare them and adopt the one you like • Optional: your career start date for your career progress MILESTONES & REMINDERS • Automatic milestones such as 1,000, 500 or 100 days left • Your own milestones for personal stages • Reminders on the day and the day before – at the time you choose VACATION, HOLIDAYS & LONG WEEKENDS • Public holidays for 22 countries: the US (federal holidays), Canada with every province and territory, the UK, Ireland, Australia with every state and territory, Germany with all 16 states, Austria, Switzerland with every canton, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Singapore • Vacation calendar with your vacation, public holidays and your own days off • Your employer gives extra days off, or a holiday is missing? Add them yourself – they count in the calculation • Find time off: combine public holidays and a few vacation days into long weekends and longer breaks WIDGETS WITH PREMIUM • 7 Home Screen widgets: workdays, calendar days, progress, motivation, facts, milestone and photo • Lock Screen widgets: round, as a card or as a line above the clock • Tap the number to switch: days, workdays, weeks or percent • Most widgets in light and dark APPLE WATCH WITH PREMIUM • Your countdown on your wrist: the calendar page, your next milestone and the quote of the day • Complications for your watch face • The watch gets its figures from RetirementTracker on your iPhone Premium is a one-time purchase – no subscription. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU All your details stay on your devices. No account, no sign-up. IN 10 LANGUAGES English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Polish. GETTING STARTED Choose your country and region, set your retirement date, enter your vacation days – done. If you like, RetirementTracker reminds you of your milestones. Also inside: book tips on retirement, hand-picked for the US. Note: RetirementTracker counts the days until the retirement date you choose. It does not calculate pension amounts, is not affiliated with any pension provider or authority, and does not provide financial or retirement advice. Holiday data without guarantee. Start your retirement countdown today and watch retirement get closer every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Waitit at 100% against RetirementTracker's 0%. Waitit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). RetirementTracker's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.2). 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. Waitit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RetirementTracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Waitit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Waitit's written reviews are positive against 0% of RetirementTracker's.
Waitit ships an update every 2 months, RetirementTracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Waitit | RetirementTracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UEasyServe | Vincent Waelken |
Customer experience
Waitit
RetirementTracker
In-app purchases
Waitit
- Lifetime$3.99
RetirementTracker
- Premium-Widgets$1.99
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