Comparison

Days Until vs Countdown Widget

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

Head to head
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: • Beautiful Countdowns: See exactly how many days, hours, and minutes are left until your big event. • Home Screen Widgets: Keep your most anticipated events right on your Home Screen with our premium, customizable widgets. • Custom Backgrounds: Personalize every countdown. Upload your own photos to make each event truly yours. • Smart Reminders: Get notified when your event arrives so you never miss a beat. • 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

Countdown Widget

Track upcoming events with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. It offers flexible repeat options, reminders, and data import/export. The app ensures your countdowns are always saved and provides a full-screen view for milestones.

Highlights
  • Multiple widget types and sizes
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Count up or down
  • Customizable repeats and reminders
  • iCloud sync
  • Data import/export
  • Milestone sharing
Features
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A countdown that never loses your days — and never holds a widget back. Add the day that matters, put it on your home screen, and watch it come closer. No limit on how many you keep, and nothing between you and the number. EVERY WIDGET, FREE • Four widgets: one countdown, the next few in a list, a spotlight, or a tile for each • Every widget size, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Unlimited events — there is no cap, and there never will be • Count down to a date, or count up from one • Recurring events: yearly, monthly, weekly, or every few days • Reminders on the day, and as far ahead as you want • iCloud sync, with no account to make • Import from a calendar, a spreadsheet, or another countdown app — and export any time • No ads, ever COUNT DOWN TO ANYTHING A wedding countdown, a vacation or trip countdown, a birthday or an anniversary. Christmas, New Year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Exam day, graduation, retirement, a baby due date, a concert, a deadline, payday. Or count the days since a day that has already happened. YOUR DAYS, KEPT Most countdown apps lose your events at the worst moment — an update, a reinstall, a phone that died. This one takes a snapshot of everything on this device every single day, and always before anything risky. Thirty days of history, one tap to restore, and nothing ever leaves your phone. Days that have already passed are never deleted either: they collect into a timeline you can look back through, with the longest wait of each year written next to it. THE MOMENT ITSELF When a countdown reaches a milestone — a hundred days, a week, the morning of — the app opens on the number, full screen, and gives you a card worth sharing. THE BACK OF EVERY EVENT Tap an event and it turns over to a page of its own. Write a few lines, add photos, record a voice — the story of the day, kept with the day. It syncs with iCloud, goes into every backup, and shares as one picture. MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS Thirty-six ready-made events, from a birthday to a first day at work, each already set up with the right repeat and the right reminders. Two hundred drawn icons and the whole emoji keyboard. A hundred and fifty-one full-screen backdrops — twenty-two of them photographs — ninety-nine in Pro. COUNTDOWN PRO Pro unlocks the Pro backdrops, with a new drop every month, your own photos behind a countdown, the Pro typefaces, the Lock Screen Live Activity, and inviting someone to count down with you. Whatever you unlock while subscribed stays yours for good — cancelling only stops the new ones arriving. Your countdowns, reminders and widgets work the same whether you subscribe or not. ——— Countdown Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Prices for the annual plan, which includes a 7-day free trial, and the monthly plan are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available; it does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

Days Until3 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Days Until at 15.1 against Countdown Widget's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Days Until sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Countdown Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Days Until ships an update every 2 days, Countdown Widget daily. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Days Until versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDays UntilCountdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris Barber-Riley可 吴

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Days Until

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Annual$5.991 Year
3 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions2
  • Countdown Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Days Until free?
Days Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Days Until or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Days Until nor Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Days Until or Countdown Widget?
Days Until ships an update every 2 days, and Countdown Widget daily. Most recently, Days Until was updated on October 12, 2026 and Countdown Widget on October 13, 2026.

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