Comparison

Daylu vs Countdown by Nator

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

Head to head
About

Daylu

Visually track important upcoming dates with customizable countdowns. See your progress at a glance with a unique dot grid or emoji style, and keep key events on your home screen with widgets. All your milestones are private and stored locally.

Highlights
  • Visual dot grid countdowns
  • Emoji style countdowns
  • Customizable themes and colors
  • Background image support
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Offline functionality
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Every important date deserves a beautiful countdown. Daylu turns your upcoming events into stunning visual progress trackers. Whether it's a birthday, vacation, anniversary, graduation, or deadline, watch each day tick by on a gorgeous dot grid that makes waiting feel tangible. VISUAL COUNTDOWNS LIKE NO OTHER See your progress at a glance with Daylu's signature dot grid. Each dot represents a day, bright dots for the days ahead, dimmed dots for the days behind you. Or swap dots for emojis and watch your countdown fill with any of 20 fun icons. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Make every countdown yours: • 11 gorgeous theme colors plus a full custom color picker • Background images from your photo library with crop, zoom, and rotate • Customize card, title, and subtext colors independently • Choose from 20 emoji styles or classic colored dots SMART RECURRING EVENTS Never miss a birthday or anniversary again. Set events to repeat weekly, monthly, or yearly, Daylu handles the tricky stuff like leap years and short months automatically. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep your most important countdowns front and center with three widget sizes: • Small — quick glance at days remaining • Medium — countdown with a mini dot grid • Large — full progress visualization with percentage THOUGHTFUL DETAILS • Custom start dates to track progress from any point in time • Intelligent sorting, today's events first, then upcoming, then past • Adapts beautifully to any countdown length, from days to years • Supports light and dark mode automatically PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your dates stay on your device. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No tracking. Daylu works entirely offline — your personal milestones are nobody's business but yours. GET STARTED FREE Create your first countdown for free. Upgrade to Daylu Pro for unlimited countdowns, emoji grids, background images, custom colors, recurring events, and widget customization one purchase, yours forever. Start counting down to what matters most.

About

Countdown by Nator

Features
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Countdown by Nator is a clean, fast countdown timer for the events that matter — vacations, deadlines, birthdays, projects, weddings, and personal goals. Watch every countdown progress with a smooth animated wheel and a live timer that ticks down to the second. Pin your most important countdowns, organize them by category, and get alerted at milestones along the way. — FEATURES — • Animated circular progress wheel for every countdown • Home-screen widgets in three sizes • Lock-screen widgets: inline, circular, and rectangular • Adaptive light + dark widget theme that follows your system • Live timer that ticks every second • Milestone alerts at 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% • Final completion notification • Pin, archive, sort, and categorize your countdowns • Eight built-in categories with custom colors • Time elapsed view alongside time remaining • 100% on-device storage — no account, no cloud, no tracking — PRIVACY — Countdown by Nator does not collect any personal information. Everything stays in a local database on your device. No accounts. No analytics. No advertising. No third-party SDKs. — SUPPORT — Email natorenterprise@gmail.com for help or feature requests. Thanks for trying Countdown by Nator!

Screenshots

Countdown by Nator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown by Nator at none against Daylu's 1. Countdown by Nator also leads on device support and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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. Daylu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown by Nator asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Daylu versus Countdown by Nator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDayluCountdown by Nator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin TerryAnand Sundaram

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Daylu

One-time1
  • Daylu Pro Lifetime Access$2.99
None

Countdown by Nator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daylu free?
Daylu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown by Nator free?
Countdown by Nator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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