Comparison

Countdown Widget vs OffPeak

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

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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
Features
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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/

About

OffPeak

Features
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Peak electricity costs almost 2.4x off-peak in summer. Knowing exactly when the price changes is the hard part — OffPeak answers it at a glance. BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD OffPeak currently supports one rate plan: SMUD's Residential Time-of-Day (5–8 p.m.). If you are a PG&E customer, or you're on SMUD's Fixed Rate plan, this app will not show you the right information. Check your bill first — it's on the "rate schedule" line. WHAT IT DOES • See the price window you're in right now, and what it costs per kWh • Watch the countdown to the next price change • Get a heads-up 15 minutes before the price changes, so you can start the dishwasher on the cheap side of the line THREE WAYS TO SEE YOUR DAY Swipe between three screens and keep whichever one fits how you think: • Dial — the whole day as a ring, color-coded by price, with a marker showing where you are in it • Price — today's rate in large type, the day laid out as a bar, and every upcoming window listed • Countdown — time remaining in this window as the biggest thing on screen WIDGETS Five to choose from, so you rarely need to open the app: • Lock Screen: a countdown to the next change, or the current price • Home Screen: the day as a miniature dial, or a countdown • A circular gauge showing your progress through the current window ALERTS THAT RESPECT YOU Choose which price changes are worth interrupting you for — peak, mid-peak, off-peak, or none. Set how far ahead you want the warning. Set quiet hours so nothing wakes you at midnight. Peak warnings can break through Focus; nothing else will. WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS SMUD prices weekends and its 11 holidays entirely off-peak, and OffPeak knows it. No false alarms on Thanksgiving, no phantom countdowns on a Saturday. WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE SMUD publishes its time-of-day schedule in advance, so OffPeak calculates everything on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no network connection, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Nothing about you leaves your device — because nothing about you is collected in the first place. RATES Rates come from SMUD's published Residential Time-of-Day rate schedule and were verified against the official tariff in August 2026. SMUD's approved January 2027 rates are already built in. Always confirm against your own bill before making decisions. Free, with no in-app purchases. Made by one person in Folsom.

Screenshots

Countdown Widget4 screens
OffPeak3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OffPeak at none against Countdown Widget's 3. OffPeak also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Countdown Widget's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Countdown Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. OffPeak asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OffPeak holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Widget has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Countdown Widget versus OffPeak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown WidgetOffPeak
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (22 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHirak BanerjeeNathaniel Chadwick

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
None

OffPeak

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OffPeak free?
OffPeak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown Widget or OffPeak?
OffPeak is rated higher. Countdown Widget averages 4.8 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while OffPeak averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Countdown Widget or OffPeak have ads?
Neither Countdown Widget nor OffPeak shows ads.

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