Comparison

Countdown vs Daylu

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

Head to head
About

Countdown

Features
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Time passes quietly. Memento Calendar makes it visible. See your year as a grid of days. Filled squares show the days behind you; open squares show the time still ahead. No noise, no streaks, no pressure—just a clear view of where you are. Track: • Your year, month, or week at a glance • Custom timelines for projects, seasons, goals, and milestones • Multiple timelines in one calm, focused view • A Home Screen widget that keeps your timeline visible • Dark mode and flexible grid colors • Local-first data with no account required Memento Calendar is for people who want awareness, not another productivity system. It does not ask you to check in, build a streak, or follow a plan. It simply turns time into a visual grid so you can notice it—and choose how to use what remains. Built with Stoic simplicity in mind. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Daylu

Visually track important upcoming dates with customizable countdowns. See your progress at a glance with a unique dot grid or emoji style, and keep key events on your home screen with widgets. All your milestones are private and stored locally.

Highlights
  • Visual dot grid countdowns
  • Emoji style countdowns
  • Customizable themes and colors
  • Background image support
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Offline functionality
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Every important date deserves a beautiful countdown. Daylu turns your upcoming events into stunning visual progress trackers. Whether it's a birthday, vacation, anniversary, graduation, or deadline, watch each day tick by on a gorgeous dot grid that makes waiting feel tangible. VISUAL COUNTDOWNS LIKE NO OTHER See your progress at a glance with Daylu's signature dot grid. Each dot represents a day, bright dots for the days ahead, dimmed dots for the days behind you. Or swap dots for emojis and watch your countdown fill with any of 20 fun icons. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Make every countdown yours: • 11 gorgeous theme colors plus a full custom color picker • Background images from your photo library with crop, zoom, and rotate • Customize card, title, and subtext colors independently • Choose from 20 emoji styles or classic colored dots SMART RECURRING EVENTS Never miss a birthday or anniversary again. Set events to repeat weekly, monthly, or yearly, Daylu handles the tricky stuff like leap years and short months automatically. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your most important countdowns front and center with three widget sizes: • Small — quick glance at days remaining • Medium — countdown with a mini dot grid • Large — full progress visualization with percentage THOUGHTFUL DETAILS • Custom start dates to track progress from any point in time • Intelligent sorting, today's events first, then upcoming, then past • Adapts beautifully to any countdown length, from days to years • Supports light and dark mode automatically PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your dates stay on your device. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No tracking. Daylu works entirely offline — your personal milestones are nobody's business but yours. GET STARTED FREE Create your first countdown for free. Upgrade to Daylu Pro for unlimited countdowns, emoji grids, background images, custom colors, recurring events, and widget customization one purchase, yours forever. Start counting down to what matters most.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

Countdown and Daylu are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters — price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Daylu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Countdown versus Daylu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownDaylu
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone — better—
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperILYAS TORUNJustin Terry

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Memento Calendar Pro Lifetime$39.99
1 purchases

Daylu

One-time1
  • Daylu Pro Lifetime Access$2.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daylu free?
Daylu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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