Comparison

Vacation Countdown vs itabi

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

Head to head
About

Vacation Countdown

This app helps you plan and track your upcoming trips. It offers countdown widgets, smart packing lists, destination facts, and budget management. After your trip, it provides a recap and allows you to map your past travels.

Highlights
  • Live countdown widgets
  • Smart packing list templates
  • Destination facts (plug types, currency, prices)
  • Trip budget tracking
  • World map of visited places
  • Shareable trip recaps
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Forty-one days. You know the number without opening anything, because it sits on your Home Screen counting down to the morning you leave. Giovex is a countdown to your next trip, a packing list that knows how long you are going for, a budget that survives the trip, and a map of everywhere you have already been. No account, and nothing leaves your phone. THE WAIT A live countdown — days, hours, minutes, seconds — on a boarding-pass trip card carrying your own photo or a bundled cover. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in five sizes count down natively and roll over at midnight without the app being opened. A Live Activity puts the same number on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Reminders arrive a week out, the day before, on arrival day and on the day you head home. PACKING THAT KNOWS HOW LONG YOU ARE GOING Eight templates — city, beach and resort, business, alpine and snow, mountain and hike, cruise, cultural, family. A 7-night trip generates 7 pairs of underwear, 3 pairs of pants and 2 sweaters, with a laundry ceiling that adds detergent instead of two weeks of socks. Add your own items, sort by category, tick them off as you go. REAL FACTS ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE GOING Plug types with pictures, voltage, currency, the current local time, and typical coffee and meal prices, across 240 countries. Where there is no reliable data, Giovex shows nothing rather than a plausible-looking default — people buy travel adapters off this screen, so a confident guess is worse than a blank. WHILE YOU ARE THERE The countdown becomes "Day 3 of 9". Set a budget and Giovex suggests a split across seven categories: food and drink, accommodation, transport, flights, shopping, activities and miscellaneous. Log expenses, see what is spent and what is left, and get told whether you are on track, nearing the limit or over it. Split the bill and work out the tip without leaving the app. Export it all as PDF or CSV. WHEN YOU GET BACK A shareable recap card in three designs: a poster, a stats card, and an atlas card drawn from the outline of the country you visited. Finished trips stay fully browsable — packing list, budget, to-do list, destination facts. THE MAP BETWEEN TRIPS Fill in a world map of everywhere you have been, by country and by city: 5,100+ cities across 240 countries, with a country's fill deepening as you add more of its cities. Three tabs — Passport for where you have been, Wishlist for where you want to go, and Collections. Collections are the 19 regions people already have a name for: the Nordics, the Baltics, Benelux, Iberia, the British Isles, the Alps, the Balkans, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, the Gulf, the Maghreb, East, West and Southern Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes and Oceania. Nearly-finished sets sort to the top — "The Nordics · 1 country to go" — and finishing one gets confetti and a share card. Trips import onto the map on their own, and countries can be added in bulk, so filling it in is never a city-by-city chore. Your headline numbers are countries, continents and cities, plus how far you have traveled from your home city: "122,200 km · 3× around the equator". Never a percentage of the world. Trip titles are matched against real places, so "Paris, France", "kyoto japan", "München" and "Two weeks in New York" all resolve to the right destination and bring the facts and the map progress with them. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is no sign-up and no login. Your trips, notes, budgets and map live on your device rather than in somebody's database. Analytics are opt-in, and never carry trip titles, notes or amounts. No ads, no subscription and no in-app purchases. Available in English, German, French, Turkish and Simplified Chinese. Privacy: https://thiliax.com/giovex-privacy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://thiliax.com/support.html

About

itabi

Features
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Your Japan trip deserves better than a cluttered Google Doc. itabi is your guide to creating the perfect trip to Japan. Whether you're planning your fifth trip to Kyoto or your first trip to Tokyo, we make creating your trip easy. Use our curated locations in 14 cities, or import your own locations and let itabi organize your trip. PLAN YOUR PERFECT TRIP Browse through our curated locations in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka (we're always adding new spots and cities!). Plan your trip day by day with the help of our auto-balancing algorithm. No more trying to fit 15 locations in one afternoon. TRAVEL TOGETHER Share your trip with your friends and family. You can edit your trip together with your editors. When your trip is about to start, you can also share your location with your trip editors so that nobody gets lost between Shinjuku and Shibuya. EXPLORE WITH CONFIDENCE View your entire day on the interactive map. You can see your locations, the distances between them, and what's nearby. You can also track your locations as you go along. SPEAK THE LANGUAGE Learn Japanese with our Japanese phrase guide. You can learn Japanese for various real-life situations such as ordering food, riding the train, shopping, asking for directions, etc. Each phrase is accompanied by audio pronunciation. KEY FEATURES * Day-by-day trip planner with 14 Japanese cities * 18 spot categories: temples, restaurants, parks, onsen, markets, etc. * Auto-organization by location and time of day * Real-time collaboration: plan your trip with your friends * Live location sharing during your trip * Interactive map with spot tracking * Japanese phrase guide with audio for 8 travel scenarios * Multilingual support: Japanese and English Start planning your Japan trip today.

Screenshots

Vacation Countdown4 screens
itabi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Vacation Countdown at every 2 weeks against itabi's every 4 months. itabi's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vacation Countdown ships an update every 2 weeks, itabi every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Vacation Countdown versus itabi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVacation Countdownitabi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThiliax LLCAhsan Zaman

In-app purchases

None

Vacation Countdown

No in-app purchases

None

itabi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vacation Countdown free?
Vacation Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is itabi free?
itabi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vacation Countdown or itabi have ads?
Neither Vacation Countdown nor itabi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vacation Countdown or itabi?
Vacation Countdown ships an update every 2 weeks, and itabi every 4 months. Most recently, Vacation Countdown was updated on October 31, 2026 and itabi on October 31, 2026.

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