Comparison

Countdown Widgets vs Spoken Alarm

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

Head to head
About

Countdown Widgets

Features
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CountPal helps you create countdowns for all the important moments in your life and track exactly how much time is left until the event. Whether it’s a birthday, vacation, wedding, exam, deadline, or any special occasion, you can easily add events and see the remaining time in days, hours, minutes, or seconds. Add beautiful countdown widgets to your iOS Home Screen and personalize them with AI-generated backgrounds that create unique artwork for each event. Customize countdown styles, choose different time units, and make every upcoming moment look great directly on your screen. Using the power of Apple Intelligence, CountPal can also generate short motivational lines for your widgets, making each countdown feel more meaningful and inspiring as the big moment approaches. Privacy policy: https://digitalhole.github.io/DHPrivacy.html Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Spoken Alarm

This utility app allows you to set alarms that speak custom messages aloud. You can record your own voice or use text-to-speech for spoken reminders. It supports daily or weekly repeating alarms and Siri integration.

Highlights
  • Spoken alarm messages
  • Microphone recording for sounds
  • Text-to-speech message generation
  • Daily and weekly repeat alarms
  • Siri integration
  • No subscriptions or ads
Features
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Have your phone speak alarm messages out loud with Spoken Alarm! NO SUBSCRIPTIONS! NO ADS. You can set alarm sounds with a microphone recording or generate one using text-to-speech. Alarms can be set to repeat daily or on certain days of the week. We also fully support setting alarms with Siri by simply saying "hey Siri set an alarm in spoken alarm" and answering the prompts. Spoken Alarm is great to remind you of medicine times or other important reminders, using the full alarm functionality instead of just a simple reminder notification. We also offer all of this with no subscription and no ads.

Screenshots

Countdown Widgets4 screens
Spoken Alarm3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countdown Widgets at Free against Spoken Alarm's $1.99. Countdown Widgets also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). Spoken Alarm's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On 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

Countdown Widgets is free to download; Spoken Alarm costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Countdown Widgets versus Spoken Alarm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown WidgetsSpoken Alarm
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Hole Pvt. Ltd.Scarlet Social

In-app purchases

None

Countdown Widgets

No in-app purchases

None

Spoken Alarm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown Widgets free?
Countdown Widgets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spoken Alarm free?
Spoken Alarm costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Countdown Widgets or Spoken Alarm have ads?
Countdown Widgets shows ads; Spoken Alarm does not.

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