Comparison

CountFree vs BillCard

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

Head to head
About

CountFree

Track important future events and past milestones with customizable widgets displayed directly on your home screen. Choose from multiple themes and sizes to personalize your countdowns and count-ups. All features are available without ads or paywalls.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns and count-ups
  • Unlimited home screen widgets
  • Multiple widget sizes
  • Four customizable themes
  • Progress bars
  • Custom emoji support
  • Real-time home screen updates
Features
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Track every moment that matters — right on your Home Screen. CountFree gives you beautiful countdown and count-up widgets with zero catches. No ads. No paywalls. No "premium" upgrades. Every single feature is yours, and it always will be. Whether you're counting down to a wedding, a vacation, or your baby's due date — or counting up from a sobriety milestone, a move to a new city, or the day you adopted your dog — CountFree keeps your most important dates front and center. WIDGETS THAT FEEL LIKE HOME Add countdown widgets directly to your iPhone or iPad Home Screen in small, medium, or large sizes. Pick from four beautiful themes — light, dark, sunset, and ocean — and personalize each event with any emoji. Set a start date and end date to see a progress bar that shows exactly how far you've come. It's incredibly satisfying to watch it fill up. Your countdowns update in real time. Just glance at your Home Screen — no need to open the app. COUNTS UP TOO Not every important date is in the future. Track time since meaningful moments: → Days sober → Years at your job → Time since you quit smoking → How long you've been together → Gym streak → Anything that matters to you I built CountFree because I was tired of countdown apps that lock basic features behind paywalls. Want more than 3 widgets? Pay up. Want a dark theme? Subscribe. It felt wrong. So I built the app I wanted to use — and made everything available to you. CountFree is a passion project. There are no investors, no growth targets, no ad networks. Just an app that does what it says. If CountFree adds value to your life, there's an optional tip jar and a supporter subscription to help me keep building. Supporters get a small badge as a thank-you. But you already have everything — it's just a way to say thanks. EVERYTHING YOU GET → Unlimited countdowns and count-ups → Unlimited Home Screen widgets → Small, medium, and large widget sizes → Four themes: light, dark, sunset, ocean → Progress bars with start and end dates → Custom emoji for every event → Real-time updates on your Home Screen → Works on iPhone and iPad → No account required → No ads. Ever. Download CountFree and start tracking the moments that matter. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

BillCard

Track credit card bills securely on your device. Record payments, monitor utilization, and receive timely notifications without any data leaving your phone. Offers a private and ad-free experience for managing your finances.

Highlights
  • Track multiple credit cards
  • Record bills and payments
  • Credit utilization ring
  • Local notifications
  • Auto-generate annual fee bills
  • JSON backup and restore
  • Face ID lock screen
Features
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BillCard is a credit card bill tracker that lives entirely on your device. No account. No server. No ads. No tracking. Your card data never leaves your iPhone. — What BillCard does well — • Track multiple credit cards with statement day, due day, credit limit, and annual fee. • Record bills and partial payments. See remaining balance at a glance. • Get a Face ID lock screen so anyone who grabs your phone can't browse your cards. • Watch a credit utilization ring change color from green to orange to red as you spend. • Receive local notifications on statement day and due day. Mark a bill paid or snooze a day right from the notification. • Auto-generate annual fee bills on the month they post. Never get surprised again. • Switch between English and Simplified Chinese on the fly. • See six months of billed vs. paid in a chart, plus an outstanding-by-card breakdown. • Export a JSON backup any time. Restore on a new device in two taps. • Designed for the US market with familiar issuers (Chase, Amex, Capital One, Citi, Bank of America, Discover, Wells Fargo, Apple Card, U.S. Bank, Barclays). Region-aware bank suggestions if you travel. — What BillCard doesn't do — • Connect to your bank. BillCard will never ask for your login. There is no Plaid, no Yodlee, no open-banking aggregator. • Send your data anywhere. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter from a third party, no email list. • Show ads or upsells. — Why on-device only — Your financial life is your business. BillCard treats it that way. We can't lose data we never had. — Privacy at a glance — • No data collection (see the privacy nutrition label below) • Local-only storage with optional iCloud private database sync • Optional Face ID / Touch ID / passcode app lock • Notifications scheduled locally; never sent from a server Questions? Email iwbinb@gmail.com.

Screenshots

CountFree4 screens
BillCard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BillCard at none against CountFree's 4. BillCard also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. CountFree sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. BillCard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CountFree against 5.0 for BillCard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CountFree versus BillCard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountFreeBillCard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew Kriel滨斌 吴

In-app purchases

4 purchases

CountFree

One-time4
  • Cheers$0.99
  • High Five$2.99
  • Large Tip$4.99
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  • Standing Ovation$9.99
None

BillCard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CountFree free?
CountFree is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BillCard free?
BillCard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CountFree or BillCard?
CountFree and BillCard are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do CountFree or BillCard have ads?
Neither CountFree nor BillCard shows ads.

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