CountdownEvents vs Clean Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CountdownEvents
Create visually appealing countdowns for important events directly on your Home Screen. Customize widgets with your own photos, colors, and fonts, and share them with friends to keep everyone in sync. Set reminders to ensure you never miss a milestone.
- Customizable countdown widgets
- Multiple widget styles
- Personalized photos, colors, and fonts
- Event reminders
- Live widget sharing
- Unlimited countdowns with purchase
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Count down to the moments that matter most, right from your Home Screen. CountdownEvents turns your iPhone into a beautiful countdown display with customizable widgets. Whether it's a vacation, birthday, wedding, graduation, or any milestone, see exactly how many days remain at a glance. FREE - Up to 3 countdowns - 4 widget styles: Classic, Flip Clock, Boarding Pass and Tear-Off Calendar - Your own photos, colors and fonts - Reminders before your event - Live widget sharing: friends get a widget that stays in sync with yours, and they only need the free app COUNTDOWN+ (ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION) - Unlimited countdowns - 20+ more widget styles, including new ones as we add them SHARED WIDGETS Share a countdown and your friends see the same widget on their Home Screen, in your style. Plan the trip, the wedding or the big day together.
Clean Countdown Widget
This utility displays the number of days until a significant event. It offers customization for event names, dates, typefaces, and background colors, with support for light and dark modes. The app also tracks days since an event has passed and requires no login or data collection.
- Displays days until an event
- Customizable event name and date
- Typeface customization
- Background color options
- Light and Dark appearance modes
- Counts days since an event
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The Clean Countdown widget shows you how many days away an important event is. It's designed to be simple but customizable with no ads or logins. Set the name of your event and a date, and the widget will show how many days away that event is. You can customize the typeface by swiping on the countdown number in the app, and customize the background color by swiping through a few color options. The app supports Light and Dark appearance modes. After the event, the app will tell you how many days it has been since that day if you want to count up from a particular day. No login required, no data collected, no advertisements. This is the kind of countdown app that I wanted for myself, so I created it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clean Countdown Widget at 100% against CountdownEvents's 50%. Clean Countdown Widget also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. CountdownEvents sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clean Countdown Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clean Countdown Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of CountdownEvents's written reviews are positive against 100% of Clean Countdown Widget's.
CountdownEvents ships an update every 4 months, Clean Countdown Widget every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | CountdownEvents | Clean Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Nguyen | Matthew Richardson |
Customer experience
CountdownEvents
Clean Countdown Widget
In-app purchases
CountdownEvents
- CountdownEvents+$4.99
Clean Countdown Widget
No in-app purchases
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