Comparison

SinceUntil vs count.live

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

Head to head
About

SinceUntil

Visually track upcoming events or past milestones with customizable widgets. Create countdowns for anything, import from calendars, and share your progress. Offers a native iOS experience with a focus on privacy.

Highlights
  • Home, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets
  • Count down to future events
  • Count up from past milestones
  • Calendar event import
  • Recurring event tracking
  • Customizable colors and icons
  • Shareable countdowns
Features
Read full description

Count down to what's next or count up from the moments that matter. SinceUntil puts live countdowns everywhere you look: Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Apple Watch. CREATE IN SECONDS Pick a date, a color, and an icon (or any emoji). Done. Future dates count down, past dates count up, and the direction switches automatically. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK • Widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy • Apple Watch app and watch-face complications • Live Activities: pin a countdown to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Control Center controls and Home Screen quick actions • Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight: ask for a countdown or search your events STAYS IN SYNC Your events follow you to every device with private iCloud sync, and milestone notifications celebrate meaningful marks like 100 days or 1 year. POWER FEATURES • Import from your calendar, or auto-track recurring activities like gym visits • Recurring countdowns, progress bars, and calendar breakdowns • Share events as beautiful cards that friends can import with one tap • Backup, restore, and CSV export WHAT'S FREE Everything, for up to 3 events. WHAT'S PRO Unlimited events. That's it: $0.49/month, $2.99/year, or $5.99 once and it's yours forever. PRIVACY FIRST No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. Your events sync privately via iCloud, and the developer never sees your data. Privacy Policy: https://sinceuntil.pages.dev Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

count.live

Create and share visually appealing countdown timers for any event, from personal milestones to major celebrations. Save unlimited timers, receive notifications, and customize their appearance with various themes and fonts. The app offers a seamless experience with its web counterpart.

Highlights
  • Create unlimited countdown timers
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable themes, fonts, and colors
  • Notifications for zero countdown
  • Recurring countdown options
  • Shareable countdown links
  • Confetti/fireworks celebration
Features
Read full description

Count down to anything: a vacation, a wedding, a birthday, a product launch, New Year's Eve. count.live shows exactly how long is left, live, and keeps it right on your Home Screen. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • Small, medium and large widgets, each showing the countdown you choose • Your colors, fonts and background photo carry over to the widget • Tap a widget to open the full countdown MAKE IT YOURS • Ready-made themes, or your own background and text colors • Use a photo from your library or any image link as the background • Choose sans-serif, serif, monospace or display fonts • Show exactly the units you want, from years down to milliseconds • Add a title, a subtitle and a message for when the time is up NEVER MISS THE MOMENT • Get a notification when a countdown reaches zero, even if the app is closed • Celebrate with confetti or fireworks when it ends • Repeat countdowns daily, weekly, monthly or yearly for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and standups • Track how far along you are with a progress bar and percentage TIME ZONES DONE RIGHT • Set the event's time zone, so midnight in Tokyo stays midnight in Tokyo • Countdowns follow the clock through daylight saving changes and leap years SHARE ONE LINK • Every countdown is a count.live link you can send to anyone • It opens in any browser on any phone or computer, no app needed • Open count.live links in the app to save them to your list • Put the same countdown in Canva, Notion, OBS or your website from count.live PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account and no sign-up • Your countdowns stay on your iPhone • No ads and no tracking; only anonymous crash reports help us fix bugs count.live is free. Questions or ideas? Write to dev@count.live.

Screenshots

SinceUntil4 screens
count.live4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: count.live at none against SinceUntil's 3. count.live also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. SinceUntil sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. count.live asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SinceUntil against 5.0 for count.live. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SinceUntil ships an update every 2 months, count.live every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SinceUntil versus count.live: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSinceUntilcount.live
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWalter SyskoCan Koecher

Customer experience

SinceUntil

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

count.live

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SinceUntil

Subscriptions2
  • SinceUntil Pro$0.491 Month
  • SinceUntil Pro$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • SinceUntil Pro$5.99
None

count.live

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SinceUntil free?
SinceUntil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is count.live free?
count.live is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SinceUntil or count.live?
SinceUntil and count.live are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do SinceUntil or count.live have ads?
Neither SinceUntil nor count.live shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SinceUntil or count.live?
SinceUntil ships an update every 2 months, and count.live every 9 days. Most recently, SinceUntil was updated on October 31, 2026 and count.live on November 10, 2026.

Other comparisons