Comparison

Days Until vs Orbit Down

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

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About

Days Until

Features
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Days Until is the most beautiful way to count down to the moments that matter most. Whether it’s a holiday, a wedding, a birthday, or that vacation you’ve been dreaming of, Days Until helps you build excitement with stunning visuals and precision tracking. FEATURES: β€’ Beautiful Countdowns: See exactly how many days, hours, and minutes are left until your big event. β€’ Home Screen Widgets: Keep your most anticipated events right on your Home Screen with our premium, customizable widgets. β€’ Custom Backgrounds: Personalize every countdown. Upload your own photos to make each event truly yours. β€’ Smart Reminders: Get notified when your event arrives so you never miss a beat. β€’ Repeating Events: perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, and weekly goals. TRACK EVERYTHING: Use Days Until for: Vacations & Travels Birthdays & Anniversaries Weddings & Big Life Events Concerts & Gigs Holidays (Christmas, Halloween, New Year's) Retirement & Graduations Upgrade to Days Until Pro to unlock unlimited countdowns, exclusive widget styles, and a completely ad-free experience. Days Until Pro Subscription Access all premium features with a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.days-until.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/Start the countdown today!

About

Orbit Down

Features
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Orbit Down is a free, ad-free countdown app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Use it without ads, tracking, or an account. Track launches, birthdays, trips, exams, bills, holidays, weddings, goals, appointments, and milestones. No app account, ads, analytics SDK, or third-party tracking. Make each countdown feel right. Choose collections, tags, notes, locations, links, searchable custom SF Symbols, typed hex color palettes, typography, photos, progress starts, milestones, urgency badges, repeat rules, completion behavior, reminder presets, actionable reminder notifications: Snooze 1 Hour, Snooze 1 Day, Snooze Tomorrow Morning, time zones, business-day units, total time units, and standard, short, or digital labels. Use 10 curated one-tap style presets. Start from built-in templates for travel, project deadlines, tax deadlines, visa renewals, concerts, dinner reservations, subscription renewals, paydays, baby due dates, retirement, moving day, birthdays, holidays, exams, and goals; then save your own templates and palettes. Widgets are central. Add small, medium, large, extra-large, and accessory widgets where supported. A single widget asks for Countdown and optional Layout; Upcoming asks for Source, optional Collection, and Rows; Collection Dashboard asks only for Collection. Widgets inherit saved countdown appearances and open matching app detail when tapped. Mutation controls stay in Live Activities, Control Center, Shortcuts, notifications, and the app. Create countdowns quickly from natural language. Quick Add, Siri, Shortcuts, Share Extension, and macOS Services all use the same parser for phrases such as "Dinner tomorrow at noon", "Launch brief by EOD", "Payday every other Friday", "Trip in 5 business days", "Countdown to Thanksgiving", "7/10/26 at 6pm", "#Launch #VIP", or multi-line pasted lists. You can include reminders, links, locations, collections, tags, favorite status, time zones, style presets, symbols, typography, units, milestones, and visual settings in the text before saving; New Countdown and Quick Add also respect the current collection or tag context unless explicit collection or tag details are supplied. Default creation collection, default creation tags, default creation style, default creation appearance, default creation progress details, default creation reminders, default creation completion behavior, default creation favorite, default creation repeat, default creation progress start, default creation units, default creation time labels, default creation typography, and default creation time zone settings keep blank, Quick Add, and Siri-created countdowns organized. Shortcuts can also duplicate countdowns, reschedule dates, rename or remove tags, set typography, copy visual styles between countdowns, use clipboard text, create countdowns from link page text, and create or review countdowns from text-bearing files. Bring Apple apps into the flow. Import upcoming Calendar events, dated Reminders, and Contacts birthdays or anniversaries with review screens and Shortcuts actions. Add countdown targets back to Calendar or Reminders, refresh imported countdowns from their source, open calendar invite files, and share countdowns as text or Markdown with progress percentage and elapsed/remaining context, a visual card, a calendar invite, a QR code, or a portable Countdown File. Live Activities and Dynamic Island keep important countdowns visible with Skip, Postpone, and Done / Next controls. Native system entry points include iOS quick actions, Control Center controls, file opening, macOS Services, the command menu, and the menu bar glance. The menu bar supports New Countdown, Quick Add, clickable Next rows, Skip, Postpone 1 Day, Done / Next, Undo Completion, and Clear History. Data stays local by default. Optional iCloud sync uses your Apple ID; backups with import summary, portable files, and Erase Local Data keep you in control.

Screenshots

Days Until3 screens
Orbit Down4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbit Down at none against Days Until's 2. Days Until's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Days Until sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Orbit Down asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Days Until ships an update every 2 days, Orbit Down fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Days Until versus Orbit Down: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDays UntilOrbit Down
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days β€” betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size49 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris Barber-RileyJoaquin Zelnick

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Days Until

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Annual$5.991 Year
None

Orbit Down

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Days Until free?
Days Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Down free?
Orbit Down is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Days Until or Orbit Down have ads?
Neither Days Until nor Orbit Down shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Days Until or Orbit Down?
Days Until ships an update every 2 days, and Orbit Down fortnightly. Most recently, Days Until was updated on September 26, 2026 and Orbit Down on October 7, 2026.

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