EverCount vs Big Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EverCount
Track important dates with beautiful, personalized countdowns and count-ups. Visualize your progress towards future events or celebrate milestones like sobriety streaks. Features live counters, customizable themes, and home screen widgets for at-a-glance updates.
- Live countdowns (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
- Days since counter for streaks and progress
- Customizable themes with emojis and accent colors
- Home Screen widgets for quick access
- Working days mode for deadlines
- Reminders for upcoming events
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EverCount is the most beautiful way to count what matters — forwards and backwards. Whether you're counting down to a wedding, a vacation, or a product launch, or counting up from a sobriety date, a first day at work, or a personal milestone, EverCount keeps you connected to every moment that matters. COUNTDOWNS • See exactly how many days until your next big event • Live countdown: months, days, hours, minutes, seconds • Urgency glow on events fewer than 7 days away • Working days mode — skip weekends for business deadlines • Yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily repeat options • Set reminders 1 day or 1 week before any event DAYS SINCE • Track how many days have passed since a meaningful date • Perfect for sobriety streaks, anniversaries, health journeys, and personal records • Always-growing counter that celebrates your progress every single day BEAUTIFUL & PERSONAL • 30 emoji choices and 12 hand-picked accent colours per event • Vibrant gradient cards that make your list feel alive • Dedicated Home Screen widgets — small (next event) and medium (top 3 events) • Dark mode support throughout • Search and tag-based filtering to find any event instantly DESIGNED FOR EVERY MOMENT • Birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays • Project deadlines and product launches • Travel and vacation countdowns • Health and wellness streaks • Sports seasons and game days • Personal goals and challenges EverCount updates in real time and syncs across your Home Screen widgets so your most important countdowns are always one glance away. Download EverCount and start counting what matters.
Big Day
Track important dates with a visually appealing countdown. See your upcoming events on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch without opening the app. Count down to future events or count up from past milestones.
- Home Screen widgets (all sizes)
- Lock Screen widgets
- Live Activities for real-time countdowns
- Count up or count down functionality
- Recurring events and weekday-only counting
- Customizable alerts and categories
- Apple Watch complications
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Count down to what matters. See it on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Countdown turns any date into a live countdown you can actually see — no opening an app, no digging through a calendar. Your next trip, your wedding, your exam, your due date. Always one glance away. FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE No ads. Not on the free tier, not ever. No banners, no video walls, no "watch this to unlock." WIDGETS THAT DO MORE • Home Screen widgets in every size — small, medium, large, and inline • Lock Screen widgets so you see it without unlocking • Live Activities — watch the final hours tick down in real time on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Interactive widgets — mark events done or snooze right from the Home Screen • Apple Watch complication showing your next event COUNT DOWN — OR COUNT UP Days until your holiday. Or days since you quit smoking, since the baby arrived, since you started. Both directions, same app. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Recurring events that reset themselves — birthdays, anniversaries, rent, monthly deadlines • Weekday-only counting for work deadlines (17 working days, not 24 calendar days) • Multiple alerts per event — a week out, a day out, an hour out • Categories with colors and icons — travel, family, work, health • Custom photo backgrounds from your library or our gallery • Choose exactly what shows: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds • Share a countdown to iMessage in one tap YOUR APPLE WATCH, INCLUDED Your countdowns sync to your Watch automatically — no iCloud account needed, no subscription, on the free tier. COUNTDOWN PRO — ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Unlimited events, iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, unlimited custom backgrounds, and all widget styles. Pay once. Keep it forever. Free tier includes 5 events, all widget sizes, Apple Watch sync, and zero ads. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your events stay on your device and in your own iCloud. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. EULA: Apple’s Standard License Agreement applies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EverCount at none against Big Day's 1. EverCount also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Big Day's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Big Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EverCount asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for EverCount against 5.0 for Big Day. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
EverCount ships an update every 4 days, Big Day every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EverCount | Big Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abhinav Mathur | Damien Asseya |
In-app purchases
EverCount
No in-app purchases
Big Day
- Countdown Pro$5.99









