Comparison

Widget Bunny 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

Widget Bunny

Features
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Make your Home Screen and Lock Screen truly yours. Widget Bunny lets you create beautiful, fully customizable widgets with your own text, photos, countdowns, tally counters, progress trackers, and QR codes. Whether you want to display a motivational quote, track your daily water intake, count down the days to your next vacation, or share your Wi-Fi with guests — Widget Bunny has you covered. FEATURES Text Widgets Write anything you want and display it on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Choose from hundreds of fonts, adjust size, weight, style, alignment, letter spacing, and line spacing. Add an SF Symbol above, below, or beside your text for the perfect finishing touch. Countdown Timers Pick a target date and watch the days, hours, and minutes tick away. Choose from four display styles: labeled, relative, date, or offset — each designed for a different use case. Tally Counters Count anything, right from your widget. Tap the + and - buttons to increment or decrement. Set an optional goal and choose an auto-reset mode: daily, weekly, or when your goal is reached. Progress Trackers Visualize your journey from start to finish. Set a start and end date and watch a progress bar or ring fill up over time. Perfect for challenges, habits, or any goal with a deadline. QR Codes Generate QR codes for URLs, plain text, Wi-Fi credentials, or contact cards. Your guests can scan your Wi-Fi QR code to connect instantly — no more spelling out passwords. Photo Backgrounds Add your own photos as widget backgrounds. Adjust the dimming level so your text stays readable, and drag to reposition the image until it looks just right. Themes Get started quickly with 14 handcrafted theme presets. From Bubblegum to Midnight, each theme sets a unique color palette for background, text, and gradient — ready to use with a single tap. Lock Screen Widgets Widget Bunny supports inline, circular, and rectangular Lock Screen widgets. Use interactive buttons to control your tally counter directly from the Lock Screen without opening the app. DESIGNED FOR YOU • Works on iPhone and iPad • Supports Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • No account required, no ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your device

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

Screenshots

Widget Bunny4 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countdown Widget at Free against Widget Bunny's $0.99. Widget Bunny's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Countdown Widget is free to download; Widget Bunny costs $0.99 up front. Countdown Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Widget Bunny asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Widget Bunny versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget BunnyCountdown Widget
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.8 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—20 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian SchimankeHirak Banerjee

In-app purchases

None

Widget Bunny

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • Annual Premium1 Month trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$24.99

Questions

Is Widget Bunny free?
Widget Bunny costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widget Bunny or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Widget Bunny nor Countdown Widget shows ads.

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