Comparison

Count Easy vs Until Then

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

Head to head
About

Count Easy

Features
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Count Easy counts the days until the moments you're waiting for, and the days since the ones that changed things. No accounts. No subscriptions. No data collection. WHAT'S NEXT, FIRST Home leads with your next moment, like "12 days until Lisbon trip", with a thin bar for how much of the wait is behind you. Below it: today's moments, everything coming up, and the counters counting up. ADD ONE IN A SENTENCE Type "Lisbon trip June 3", "Mom's birthday May 4" or "Quit coffee 2 weeks ago" and Count Easy reads the name, the date and whether it repeats. Or open the full form to pick the date, an icon or emoji, a color and a note. DAYS UNTIL AND DAYS SINCE Count down to trips, birthdays, weddings, launches and deadlines. Count up from the day you moved, started a job or quit something. On the day itself a countdown simply reads Today; the next day it starts counting the days since. REPEATS THAT KEEP THEIR DAY Repeat every day, week, two weeks, month or year. Birthdays come back every year, February 29 included in leap years, and monthly dates on the 31st land on each month's last day. RIGHT, WHEREVER YOU ARE Count Easy counts calendar days, so a countdown never shifts by a day when you travel across time zones or the clocks change. WIDGETS Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen widgets show your next moment, or any countdown you pick. The medium and large sizes list what's up next. SHARE THE COUNTDOWN Send any countdown as an image, in Paper, Ink or Story. MAKE IT YOURS Light, Graphite or Black, and eight accents, each with its own app icon. PRIVACY FIRST Zero data collection. Zero tracking. Zero third-party code. Your countdowns stay on your device and are never transmitted anywhere. iCloud backup handles device transfers automatically.

About

Until Then

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Until Then - Event Countdown is a clean, ad-free way to count down to the moments you're waiting for. β€’ Create as many events as you like - birthdays, trips, anniversaries, deadlines - each with its own emoji, color and optional photo. See exactly how long is left, down to the second on the day itself. β€’ Home Screen widgets in every size, plus Lock Screen widgets β€’ Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island in the final hours β€’ Custom reminders - as many as you want, from hours to months before β€’ Yearly events that roll over automatically for birthdays & anniversaries β€’ Optional iCloud sync across your iPhone and iPad * Share time left with others * Time zone aware or constant time - your choice * Count up from event, or continue to count after the event arrived * Siri & shortcuts integration No ads. No tracking. No accounts. No locked features. Everything stays on your device. I built it for myself because every other countdown app I tried was full of ads and paywalls. I'm sharing it in case it's useful to you too - free, clean, and it'll stay that way.

Screenshots

Count Easy4 screens
Until Then2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Until Then at weekly against Count Easy's every 4 months. Count Easy's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Count Easy ships an update every 4 months, Until Then weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Count Easy versus Until Then: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount EasyUntil Then
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew StricklandRon Sigall

In-app purchases

None

Count Easy

No in-app purchases

None

Until Then

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Count Easy free?
Count Easy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Until Then free?
Until Then is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Count Easy or Until Then have ads?
Neither Count Easy nor Until Then shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Count Easy or Until Then?
Count Easy ships an update every 4 months, and Until Then weekly. Most recently, Count Easy was updated on October 25, 2026 and Until Then on October 24, 2026.

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