Comparison

Countdown Days Widget vs Cues

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

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About

Countdown Days Widget

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Daysleft turns the days between now and the moments you care about into a clean, glanceable countdown — on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and in the app. No clutter, no noise. Just the days that matter, counting down. TWO KINDS OF COUNTDOWN • From date — set a start and a goal and watch your progress fill as time passes. Perfect for a project, a pregnancy, a savings goal, or a trip you're building toward. • Days left — pick a goal date and count down from today. Perfect for a birthday, a holiday, a deadline, a wedding, or a return home. A FINISH WORTH WATCHING • As the day nears, the widget ring catches fire over the final three days — building each day. • On the day itself, a little celebration marks the moment. • And after it passes, your countdown keeps going, counting the days since — so the moment never just disappears. A GUIDED START • A friendly welcome explains both countdown types with a live example of each, so your very first countdown is easy to set up and looks exactly how you want. MADE FOR YOUR HOME & LOCK SCREEN • Small and medium Home Screen widgets • Lock Screen widgets (circular and rectangular) • Each widget shows exactly one countdown, so you decide what earns the space • Choose which countdown a widget displays — long-press to switch it anytime SEE IT BEFORE YOU PLACE IT • A live widget preview inside the app shows precisely how your countdown will look — while you edit and in your list — so there are no surprises on your Home Screen. MAKE EACH ONE YOURS • Give every countdown a title, an accent color, and an icon • Keep several countdowns side by side and open any one for the full view SIMPLE, PRIVATE, YOURS • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your countdowns stay on your device Set a date. Watch it approach. Celebrate when it arrives. That's Daysleft.

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Cues

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Bars that drain. Top them up before they hit zero. Most people don't notice they're thirsty until they're already dehydrated. Or that they haven't eaten in eight hours. Or that they haven't moved since yesterday. Cues turns the daily needs you forget about into bars that drain over time — so you see them before they hit empty, not after. WHO IT'S FOR If you reach mid-afternoon and realize you haven't eaten, had water, or stood up. If "just remember" has never worked for you. If habit-streak apps only ever made you feel further behind. Cues is for busy people, parents, students, and anyone with ADHD or executive-function challenges who loses track of basic needs until they're already running on empty. THE LOOP Each cue is a bar. The bar drains at its own pace — water in 4 hours, food in 6, sleep over 17, movement every 8, social every couple of days. When a bar gets low, Cues nudges you. You tap to top it up. That's the whole game. No streaks to break. No shame. No guilt. Just the bars. SEVEN DEFAULTS Ready on first launch: • Water • Food • Sleep • Movement • Meds • Bathroom • Social PRESETS Drop in eight more cues without designing them yourself: Sensory Break · Fresh Air · Mood Check · Screen Break · Temperature · Fun · Sunlight · Hygiene CUSTOM CUES Design your own bars with the decay timing and trigger that fits your life. AUTO-REFILL FROM APPLE HEALTH Cues reads sleep, movement, sunlight, food, and water from Apple Health. When the data lands there, the right bar tops itself up automatically. No double-entry — log a glass of water in any Health-aware app and Cues picks it up. QUIET, PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE — No accounts. No login. No servers. — No telemetry. No ads. No tracking. — Health data stays on your phone. — Notifications come at quiet times, not as a flood — quiet hours by default. APPLE WATCH Cues runs on Apple Watch as a companion. Glance at your wrist, see what's running low, top it up from the watch face. WIDGETS Lock screen and home screen widgets show your three most-urgent bars at a glance. FREE Everything in Cues is free. No subscription, no IAP, no trial countdown — just the app. COMMON QUESTIONS What is Cues? Cues is a free self-care tracker for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Each basic need — water, food, sleep, movement, meds, bathroom, social — is a bar that drains over time, and you top it up when you act on it. How is it different from a habit tracker? Habit trackers reward streaks and punish gaps. Cues has no streaks and nothing to break: a bar that hit zero yesterday is just a bar you fill today. Does it need an account or a connection? No. Cues works offline, with no account, no servers and no tracking. Health data stays on your device. Is it really free? Yes — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no trial. Do I need an Apple Watch? No. The watch app and widgets are optional; the iPhone app on its own is complete. — — — Cues is built by an indie developer in Finland. Quiet support: stationify.fi/apps/cues

Screenshots

Countdown Days Widget4 screens
Cues4 screens

Verdict

The call

Countdown Days Widget and Cues are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Countdown Days Widget versus Cues: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown Days WidgetCues
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPedalixStationify Oy

In-app purchases

None

Countdown Days Widget

No in-app purchases

None

Cues

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown Days Widget free?
Countdown Days Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cues free?
Cues is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Countdown Days Widget or Cues have ads?
Neither Countdown Days Widget nor Cues shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown Days Widget or Cues?
Countdown Days Widget ships an update fortnightly, and Cues fortnightly. Most recently, Countdown Days Widget was updated on October 14, 2026 and Cues on October 13, 2026.

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