DocKit vs Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DocKit
This app offers a powerful offline document scanner with AI-powered filters for clean, professional scans. It provides a comprehensive suite of PDF editing tools, including merging, splitting, converting, and text extraction, all while prioritizing user privacy with on-device processing.
- AI-powered document scanning
- Offline PDF editing tools
- Merge, split, and reorder PDFs
- Convert PDFs to images
- Extract text from PDFs and images (OCR)
- Digital signatures and password protection
- PDF compression and optimization
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Dockit is a smart document scanner and full PDF toolkit — AI-powered filters, a complete set of PDF tools, and everything works fully offline. Scan documents with your camera and get clean, professional results instantly. Smart filters run entirely on-device to auto-detect edges, correct perspective, remove shadows, and produce crisp scans whether you're capturing a receipt, a contract, an ID card, or a passport. DOCUMENT SCANNER Scan in four modes built for different needs — General for any document, Document for standard paper sizes like A4 and Letter, ID Card for capturing both sides of an identity card, and Passport for travel documents. Every scan is processed locally with no data sent anywhere. ORGANIZE YOUR PDFs Merge multiple PDFs into one, or split a file your way — by page range, by file size, or at fixed intervals. Reorder, rotate, delete, or extract pages with a few taps. CONVERT & EXTRACT Turn PDFs into images or build a PDF from your photos in seconds. Extract text from any PDF or use OCR to pull text out of scanned images — all offline. SECURITY & SIGNING Sign documents digitally, add custom watermarks, protect files with a password, or remove protection from any PDF. Your documents, fully under your control. COMPRESS & OPTIMIZE Reduce PDF file sizes significantly without losing quality — useful for sharing, emailing, or simply freeing up storage. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Dockit works entirely offline. Nothing is uploaded and no data is collected. What's on your device stays on your device. SUBSCRIPTION & PREMIUM FEATURES Dockit offers a free version with core scanning features. Advanced tools require a subscription. Premium features include: • OCR (text recognition) • PDF compression • Digital signatures • Password protection for PDFs • ID card and passport scanning • Extended scan limits Subscription details are shown in-app before purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Countdown Widget
Visually appealing countdowns for all your important dates, displayed on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, and more. Features AI-generated backgrounds and precise time tracking.
- AI-generated photo backgrounds
- Countdown to exact time (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
- Live Activity and Dynamic Island integration
- Multiple widget placements (Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy)
- Apple Watch app and complications
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Multi-event widget with progress bars
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DayDrop is the countdown widget for iPhone that shows the days until everything you're looking forward to — Christmas, your wedding, a birthday, vacation, or the day your baby arrives — right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. "Finally, a countdown app that actually looks good on my Home Screen." See your most important days counting down from everywhere: Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, iPad, and StandBy. WHY PEOPLE LOVE DAYDROP • Beautiful AI-generated photo backgrounds — describe any event and get a stunning, one-of-a-kind photo backdrop in seconds. • Countdown to the exact moment — set a specific time on any event and watch days, hours, minutes, and seconds tick down live. • Your photo in the Dynamic Island — your event's background shows live in the Dynamic Island and Live Activity, with a progress ring. • 10 widget placements — Home Screen (small, medium, large, extra-large), multi-event widget, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Control Center. • Multi-event widget with progress bars — several countdowns at a glance. • iPad optimized — adaptive layouts, ExtraLarge widget, and a roomier overview. • iCloud sync — your countdowns move with you across iPhone and iPad. Always in sync, always private. • Share cards — send your countdown to anyone. • Badge countdown on app icon — glance at your Home Screen, see days left. • Liquid Glass, iOS 26 native — designed for Apple's latest design language. • Orbital year view — your whole year of countdowns in a single circular timeline. POWERFUL & PERSONAL • Count up and down from any date • 8 categories — Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries, Holidays, Vacations, Work, Fitness, Custom • Recurring events — annual, monthly, weekly, or biweekly • Milestone notifications — 30, 14, 7, 3 days before • Celebration confetti on the big day • Pin your most important events • Import birthdays from Contacts in one tap • Gyroscope parallax and tactile scroll animations A CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN, A NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN, AND EVERY DAY WORTH WAITING FOR How many days until Christmas? Until New Year's Eve? Until Halloween, the concert, your exam, retirement, or the trip you've been planning all year? DayDrop keeps the answer one glance away — as a widget, on your Lock Screen, or with Siri: just ask "how many days until my event in DayDrop." LOCK SCREEN, DONE RIGHT Category icons on your Lock Screen widgets, with desaturated backgrounds so your countdown stays glanceable. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into 16 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your countdowns stay on your devices and in your iCloud. We don't sell your data. DAYDROP PREMIUM Premium unlocks AI photo backgrounds, Live Activity and Dynamic Island, every widget placement, watermark-free share cards, unlimited pins, custom milestone notifications, iCloud sync, and the orbital year view. Plans and pricing are shown in the app. Questions? Email daydrop@beatroot.dev or visit daydrop.beatroot.dev. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DocKit at 100% against Countdown Widget's 86%. DocKit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). Countdown Widget's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 4). 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
Both are free to download. DocKit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Countdown Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DocKit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of DocKit's written reviews are positive against 86% of Countdown Widget's.
DocKit ships an update every 5 days, Countdown Widget weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DocKit | Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.8 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohamed Al-Kainai | Hirak Banerjee |
Customer experience
DocKit
Countdown Widget
In-app purchases
DocKit
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Yearly$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99
Countdown Widget
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Annual Premium1 Month trial$12.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$24.99





