Comparison

Coming Up vs Countdown+ Widget

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

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About

Coming Up

Features
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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.

About

Countdown+ Widget

Features
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Countdown+ does one thing: it tells you how many days are left. Big number, small label, nothing else. • Count down to any date, or count up from one • Yearly and monthly repeats for birthdays and anniversaries • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets • For iPhone, iPad and Mac • iCloud sync between your devices, automatic, no account with us • Optional photo per countdown • Share a countdown as a link • Live Activity up to 8 hours before • Reminders: on the day, one day, one week or one month before • Twilight, dark and accent app icons • Export and import as JSON • No account. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. • Countdown+ Pro (one-time purchase): 54 widget templates and your own themes with colors, gradients and fonts, plus four Pro Easter eggs And a few Easter eggs. Twelve of them, sixteen with Pro. Good luck.

Screenshots

Coming Up4 screens
Countdown+ Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Coming Up at none against Countdown+ Widget's 1. Countdown+ Widget's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown+ Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Coming Up asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Coming Up versus Countdown+ Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComing UpCountdown+ Widget
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGet Happy, LLCJan Eggers

In-app purchases

None

Coming Up

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Countdown+ Widget

One-time1
  • Countdown+ Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Coming Up free?
Coming Up is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown+ Widget free?
Countdown+ Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Coming Up or Countdown+ Widget have ads?
Neither Coming Up nor Countdown+ Widget shows ads.

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