Comparison

Vavi vs Countdown Widget Go

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

Head to head
About

Vavi

Never forget important dates like birthdays, anniversaries, and memorial dates. This app helps you track these events, set custom reminders, and privately share them with loved ones. It also offers Hebrew date conversions and optional candle-lighting reminders.

Highlights
  • Track birthdays, anniversaries, and memorial dates
  • Automatic Hebrew date calculation
  • Customizable reminders
  • Private sharing with family and friends
  • Import birthdays from contacts
  • Send wishes and share memories
Features
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Some dates you never want to forget. Vavi helps you remember the birthdays, anniversaries, yahrzeits, and memorial dates of the people who matter most. Add people, track their important dates, set thoughtful reminders, and share dates with family and friends — quietly, privately, and without sign-ups. **WHAT VAVI TRACKS** * Birthdays and anniversaries * Yahrzeits and memorial dates * Hebrew birthdays, calculated automatically * Gregorian and Hebrew date conversion * Hebrew names for the people in your list * Optional yahrzeit candle-lighting reminders **REMINDERS THAT WORK FOR YOU** * Get reminders days or weeks before important dates * Choose when you want reminders to arrive * Import birthdays from your contacts * See the month ahead with a monthly summary **SHARE WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS** * Share someone’s important dates so family and friends can add them in one tap * Share your profile so others can remember your dates, too * No retyping. Just tap a link to add them to Vavi **ON THE DAY** * Send a birthday wish in one tap * Share a memory on yahrzeits and memorial dates * Start with a pre-written message and make it your own **PRIVATE BY DESIGN** Your people and their dates stay on your device. * No accounts * No cloud sync * No ads * Export or restore your data anytime in Settings Remember what matters.

About

Countdown Widget Go

Features
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Countdown shows you exactly how long until the things you care about, or how long it's been since. Make one for a birthday, a trip, an anniversary, an exam, your last day at work, or just New Year. It sits on your Home Screen and your Lock Screen so you see it every time you pick up your phone. Every countdown is yours to customize. Pick an emoji, set a color or let it adapt to light and dark mode, drop in your own photo as the background, and tag it however you like. Set it as an all-day event or count down to the minute. Repeating events roll forward on their own, and the repeats are smart: "last Friday of the month" stays the last Friday instead of drifting to a fixed date. The widgets are the point for a lot of people. Single-event widgets come in four styles — a big number, a progress ring, a progress bar, or number tiles — for the Home Screen, plus circular, rectangular, and inline versions for the Lock Screen. Track several events at once with the medium and large widgets. Empty slots fill in with whatever's coming up next, and anything you pin jumps to the front. What you get: - Count down to a future date or up from a past one - Home Screen widgets in four styles, plus Lock Screen widgets - Your own photos as widget backgrounds - Smart repeats: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, including patterns like "2nd Tuesday" that don't drift - Emoji, custom colors, and tags - Pin your favorites and reorder by hand - Reminders the day before, a week before, or when the day arrives - Choose which units you see, from years down to seconds - Count only the days that matter by skipping weekends or any weekday you pick - Sort by soonest, latest, name, or date added - Works in nine languages Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no servers, no tracking. The app is free, has no ads, and nothing is locked behind a purchase.

Screenshots

Vavi4 screens
Countdown Widget Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Vavi at every 5 days against Countdown Widget Go's monthly. Vavi also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.2). 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

Vavi ships an update every 5 days, Countdown Widget Go monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Vavi versus Countdown Widget Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVaviCountdown Widget Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBarak SchrigerWanja Hemmerich

In-app purchases

None

Vavi

No in-app purchases

None

Countdown Widget Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vavi free?
Vavi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget Go free?
Countdown Widget Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vavi or Countdown Widget Go have ads?
Neither Vavi nor Countdown Widget Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vavi or Countdown Widget Go?
Vavi ships an update every 5 days, and Countdown Widget Go monthly. Most recently, Vavi was updated on October 31, 2026 and Countdown Widget Go on October 25, 2026.

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