Countdown Events vs Strata Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Events
Visually track important upcoming dates with customizable widgets on your home screen. Set reminders and share live countdowns with friends. Offers a free tier with limited features and a one-time purchase for unlimited access.
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Multiple widget styles
- Personalize with photos, colors, and fonts
- Event reminders
- Live shared widgets
- Unlimited countdowns with purchase
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Count down to the moments that matter most, right from your Home Screen. Countdown Events 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.
Strata Countdown Widget
Visually track important upcoming events directly on your home screen. Create unlimited countdowns with customizable colors and backgrounds, choosing to count down by days or to the exact hour, minute, and second.
- Unlimited countdowns to any date
- Optional time precision (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
- Home screen widget support
- Pin specific countdowns or auto-show soonest
- Customizable accent colors and backgrounds
- 100% on-device processing, no tracking
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Strata is a simple, beautiful way to count down to the moments that matter, and put them right on your home screen. Create a countdown for any date: a trip, a birthday, an anniversary, a deadline, a launch. Choose whether to count whole days, or down to the hour, minute, and second. Give each countdown its own accent color and a solid-color or photo background. The Strata home screen widget shows your next big moment at a glance, pin a specific countdown, or let it automatically show the soonest one. FEATURES • Unlimited countdowns to any date • Optional time precision: days, or days / hours / minutes / seconds • Home screen widget (small and medium) • Pin a countdown to the widget, or auto-show the soonest • Per-countdown accent colors • Solid-color or photo backgrounds • Rock-inspired themes • 100% on device, no account, no tracking No sign-up. No ads. Your data never leaves your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strata Countdown Widget at none against Countdown Events's 1. Strata Countdown Widget also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). Countdown Events's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Countdown Events sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Strata Countdown Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown Events holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Events has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Countdown Events ships an update every 9 days, Strata Countdown Widget every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Events | Strata Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Nguyen | Dacite Dev LLC |
In-app purchases
Countdown Events
- CountdownEvents+$4.99
Strata Countdown Widget
No in-app purchases
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