Ibi's Countdown vs NowCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ibi's Countdown
Create visually appealing countdowns for all your important upcoming events. Track birthdays, vacations, weddings, and graduations with ease. Never miss a special moment again.
- Create custom countdowns
- Track important events
- Visually appealing designs
- Supports various event types
- Simple and intuitive interface
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Keep track of the moments that matter most. Ibi's Countdown lets you create beautiful countdowns to your upcoming events — birthdays, vacations, weddings, graduations, and more.
NowCal
This app combines your calendar and personal notes with a chat-style journaling feature for easy, low-pressure entries. It offers integrated scheduling, reminders, countdowns, and supports various media types, all stored locally.
- Chat-style journaling
- Integrated calendar and notes
- Alarms and countdowns
- Support for text, photos, video, voice
- Local data storage
- Multiple calendar views
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Check calendars, write schedules, take notes, check dates and time — with "NowCal" (Today Calendar), that's all you need. 【Check Calendars】 • Multiple views: calendar, yearly view, and more. Switch between views effortlessly. • Week start on your terms: any day of the week can be set as the first day. 【Write Schedules · Take Notes】 • Chat-style recording: no titles, no categories — just jot down, snap a photo, or record a voice memo as easily as chatting. Text, images, video, audio, and files are all supported. • Fully local storage: your data stays on your device — fast and secure. • Schedules displayed right on the calendar grid: see what's coming up at a glance, without tapping through to find out. • Both schedule and note lists feature a mini calendar view at the top: swipe up and down to switch between week and month views, swipe left and right to move between weeks or months — browsing your plans and memories couldn't be easier. 【Check Dates & Time】 • Alarm reminders, anniversary countdowns, timers, date calculators, stopwatches... all your everyday time-related needs, covered.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ibi's Countdown at none against NowCal's shown. Ibi's Countdown also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). NowCal's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ibi's Countdown against 5.0 for NowCal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Ibi's Countdown | NowCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ebrahim Zulqarni | 广悦 谢 |
In-app purchases
Ibi's Countdown
No in-app purchases
NowCal
No in-app purchases
