Coming Up vs Await
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coming Up
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Something wonderful is coming up. Watch it get closer. Coming Up turns the days you're looking forward to into gorgeous, glowing countdowns. Trips, birthdays, concerts, holidays, the big day: every event gets its own living aurora of color, a giant countdown, and a place on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Fully compatible with iPhone Duo, too. Open it up, flat or folded, and your next event and your list each get their own side of the fold. EVERY EVENT GETS ITS OWN GLOW • 12 hand-tuned color themes, each a softly drifting aurora • Use one of your own photos instead, zoomed and positioned just the way you like • Add an emoji, a category, and notes like gate numbers or gift ideas • A live preview shows exactly how your countdown will look as you create it WATCH THE FINAL HOURS TICK BY • In the last 24 hours, the day count becomes a live clock: hours, minutes, seconds • A Live Activity counts down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Add a time for concerts, flights, and parties, or keep it all-day • Confetti when the day finally arrives SEE THE WAIT EVERY WHICH WAY • Years, months, and days, or weeks and days • Sleeps to go, weekends to go, hours, and minutes • Optional progress bars show how much of the wait is already behind you COUNT UP, TOO • Track the days since anything: anniversaries, new jobs, streaks, milestones • Celebrate 100 days, 1 year, 1,000 days, and every milestone along the way YOUR HOME SCREEN, LOCK SCREEN, AND WRIST • Small, medium, and large widgets, bathed in each event's colors or its photo • Medium and large widgets show your next event big, with the next three right behind it • Lock Screen widgets with day counts and ticking timers • Choose what each widget shows: your next event, a shuffle, or one favorite • Tap a widget to jump straight to its event, or just open your list ON APPLE WATCH • Turn the Digital Crown and each event glides in on its own aurora • A large watch-face complication with the countdown, plus circular, corner, and inline styles • Add an event right from your wrist; it syncs to your iPhone • Your events and photos sync from iPhone automatically THOUGHTFUL TOUCHES • Yearly events like birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own, even on February 29 • Reminders on the day, the day before, a week before, or a month before, at the time you choose • Filter by category, and keep past events to look back on • One-tap starting ideas: vacation, birthday, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Halloween, anniversary, concert, wedding, and "days since" PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. Your events stay on your iPhone and your own Apple Watch, and nothing is ever sent to us. Coming Up requires iOS 26 or later. The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 26 or later.
Await
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Await is a minimalist countdown app for the moments you are waiting for. Create countdowns for birthdays, trips, exams, launches, anniversaries, goals, and anything else ahead of you. Keep them inside the app or place them on your Home Screen with clean, simple widgets. Await is designed to feel calm, minimal, and focused. No clutter. No complicated planning tools. Just your upcoming moments, displayed beautifully. features: • Create custom countdowns • Add countdown widgets to your Home Screen • Choose clean visual styles • Organize important upcoming moments • Use ready-made templates with Await Pro • Track personal events, goals, deadlines, trips, and more • Minimal interface with a dark, elegant design Await Pro: Unlock template packs and premium customization options to create countdowns faster and make your widgets feel more personal. use Await for: • birthdays • anniversaries • vacations • exams • deadlines • product launches • concerts • movie and game releases • personal goals • habit challenges • life events Await helps you keep your next moment close — without noise.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Coming Up at none against Await's 1. Await's advantage is iOS requirement (18.5 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Await sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Coming Up asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Coming Up | Await |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Get Happy, LLC | Iqbal Imranli |
In-app purchases
Coming Up
No in-app purchases
Await
- await - unlimited$2.99









