Countdown Widget vs Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Orbit
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Count down to what's coming. Orbit turns the moments you're waiting for into beautiful home-screen widgets. Pick a date, choose a look, and watch it tick. MAKE IT UNMISTAKABLY YOURS Every element moves. Drag the number, the days label, the title, the date and the live countdown anywhere on the widget, then set the font, size and colour of each one independently. Three widget types to start from: Minimal, Ring and Line. A LIVE COUNTDOWN, TO THE SECOND Show the days remaining, or a full countdown ticking down hours, minutes and seconds right there on your home screen, updating on its own. BACKGROUNDS AND ICONS Solid colours, custom gradients you mix yourself, or one of your own photos. Twenty-two event icons, from rings and cakes to rockets and palm trees, or use any emoji as your icon. START FROM A TEMPLATE A gallery of ready-made countdowns: holidays, birthdays, weddings, trips, launches - so you can have a widget on your screen in seconds. REPEATS AND REMINDERS Set a countdown to repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly and it rolls forward on its own. Add reminders ahead of the day so nothing sneaks up on you. TWO WIDGET SIZES Small and medium, each fully arrangeable. SYNCS QUIETLY Turn on iCloud backup and your countdowns, reminder settings and widget photos follow you across devices signed in to the same Apple Account. Everything lives in your own private iCloud container. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There's nothing to sign up for. Your countdowns live on your device, and Orbit collects nothing about you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap + and name what you're counting down to, then pick the date. 2. Customize it, choose a style and background, drag the number, title, date and live countdown wherever you want them, and set the font, size and colour of each. 3. Save, then go to your Home Screen. Touch and hold anywhere, tap the + in the corner, search for Orbit and add the widget in the size you want. 4. Touch and hold the placed widget, choose Edit Widget, and pick which countdown it shows. Want several on your Home Screen? Add the widget again for each one and point each at a different countdown; same steps, step 4 is where you choose. ORBIT PRO Free includes one widget with three fonts and six icons. Orbit Pro unlocks unlimited countdowns and widgets, all eleven fonts, all twenty-two icons, emoji icons, every style and background, your own photos, and the full template gallery. Available as a monthly or yearly subscription, each starting with a 7-day free trial, or as a one-time lifetime purchase that does not renew. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged within 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel in Settings, by tapping your name, then Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://ralexlab.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://ralexlab.com/privacy
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Countdown Widget and Orbit are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Countdown Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Orbit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Countdown Widget | Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hirak Banerjee | Ralex Lab |
In-app purchases
Countdown Widget
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Annual Premium1 Month trial$12.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$24.99
Orbit
- Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Orbit Pro Lifetime$44.99









