Span vs Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Span
Track upcoming events with live countdowns or elapsed time since past moments. Log daily habits, discover patterns, and explore historical events with rich media. Organize and share your time-related data seamlessly.
- Live second-by-second countdowns
- Elapsed time tracking
- Habit and routine logging
- Historical 'On This Day' events
- Customizable widgets
- Shareable event cards
- iCloud backup and sync
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Your relationship with time, all in one place. Count down to birthdays, trips, and deadlines, or see how long it’s been since a milestone. Log recurring events with Trackers and explore history with On This Day. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. SPANS - Live Countdowns — See years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds until or since a date. Date-only spans count calendar days. - Apple Calendar — Choose events to import, review their details, and keep selected events updated or make one-time copies. Span never adds new Calendar events automatically or writes changes back to Calendar. - Smart Emoji Suggestions — Get up to three matching emoji as you type, using on-device Apple Intelligence when available. - Yearly Recurrence — Repeat birthdays and anniversaries, with smart holiday dates that adjust each year. - Holiday Templates — Start with 22 US holidays and cultural events, including Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Chinese New Year. - Weather — Add a US ZIP code for historical weather or a forecast within the next 16 days. - Tags — Give spans and trackers custom tags with optional colors. Read tag names on cards and filter by one or several tags. - Organize — Filter by upcoming, elapsed, or archived; sort by date, name, or custom order. Choose Reorganize to drag rows into place. - Share — Send a styled countdown image or a link that opens in Span. TRACKERS - Log Anything — Tap once to record an event and see the time since your last entry. - Patterns — Frequency statistics show how often you typically do something. - Full History — Add dated entries, edit timestamps, or delete mistakes. - 14 Templates — Workout, Run, Coffee, Meditation, Shower, and more. ON THIS DAY Browse notable historical events for any date, powered by Wikipedia. Open an event to read its description and a related Wikipedia article. Images appear when available. Optional daily notifications bring you a historical event to explore. WIDGETS - Span Widget — Small, medium, or large. Auto mode follows your Spans tab’s filters, tags, and sort order, or you can choose spans manually. - On This Day Widget — Daily history on your Home Screen. Tap to open the matching event. NOTIFICATIONS Get notified at a span’s event time or choose an advance reminder in minutes, hours, or days. Enable daily history alerts separately. BACKUP Manually back up and restore your spans and trackers with iCloud Drive. Your backup stays in your own iCloud account. FREE & PRO Track up to 2 spans and 1 tracker for free. Unlock unlimited spans and trackers with a one-time Span Pro purchase. PRIVACY No account, advertising, or analytics. Your spans and trackers stay on your device, with optional backup to your own iCloud Drive.
Countdown Widget
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Countdown Widget - Span Track every moment that matters, beautifully organized, right on your home screen See exactly how much time is left for every event in your life, all in one place. Span makes it effortless to track your upcoming moments with stunning visuals and always-on home screen widgets. Key Features: • Track Any Event, Any Category - From marathons and weddings to vacations, exams, and product launches, organize your countdowns by category like Travel, Work, Family, and more. • Beautiful Countdown Detail - See days, hours, minutes, and seconds ticking down in real time, with a sleek circular progress ring showing exactly how far along you are. • Dots View - A unique visual timeline that turns your event's span into a grid of dots, each one representing a day. Watch elapsed days fill up as your event gets closer. • Progress at a Glance - Every countdown shows your percentage elapsed, so you always know where you stand in the journey to your big moment. • Home Screen Widgets - Keep your most important countdowns front and center without ever opening the app. •Multiple Widget Sizes - Small or medium, fit Span seamlessly into any home screen layout. Download Span today and start counting down to what matters most! TERMS: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Countdown Widget at 3 against Span's 1. Countdown Widget also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Span sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Span | Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shamir Wehbe | Gaith LLC |
In-app purchases
Span
- Span Pro$1.99
Countdown Widget
- Span Premium Yearly$6.991 Year
- Span Lifetime$14.99





