Comparison

Anniversary+ Countdown Widget vs Steep

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

Head to head
About

Anniversary+ Countdown Widget

Easily track important dates with countdowns and elapsed days. Personalize events with photos, backgrounds, and fonts. Receive timely reminders and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Countdown tracking
  • Elapsed days calculation
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Customizable event personalization
  • Reminder notifications
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Anniversary helps you track countdowns and elapsed days for the moments that matter. Save birthdays, anniversaries, trips, exams, launch days and more with beautiful templates, Home Screen widgets, reminder notifications and iCloud sync. Personalize each event with photos, backgrounds, fonts and colors for a cleaner and more visual way to remember important dates. Subscription Information Price may vary by location. Premium members will be charged to your iTunes account. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal price will be shown before the charge. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The current subscription cannot be canceled during the active subscription period. Subscriptions can be managed by the user, and auto-renewal can be turned off in the Apple ID account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/tonys1987/Privacy-Policy/blob/main/privacy.md Terms of Use: https://github.com/tonys1987/Privacy-Policy/blob/main/EULA.md Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Email: conciseclockapp@gmail.com

About

Steep

This app offers a daily reflection ritual where users engage with a single thought each morning. They can choose to keep or discard the thought, building a personal archive over time. Premium features offer deeper insights and personalized reports.

Highlights
  • Daily single thought prompt
  • Option to keep or discard thoughts
  • Accumulating archive of reflections
  • Automatic topic (thread) gathering
  • Weekly silence on Sundays
  • Premium layered re-reading
  • Monthly and yearly personalized reports
Features
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Steep is a journal for one thought a day. Each morning, a single thought lands on your phone. You can steep it (sit with it, keep it) or pour it (let it go). That's the whole rhythm. There is no streak counter. There is no daily score. Sundays default to a quiet rest day with no notification. If you miss a day, nothing breaks. If you miss a week, the app waits. Over months, the thoughts you keep accumulate into something quietly meaningful. A list of threads you returned to. A small portrait of what you paid attention to. A year, in cross-section. What you get for free: • A new thought, every morning • A growing archive of what you kept and what you let go • Threads, the topics you returned to, gathered automatically • A weekly silence on by default Premium adds six slow artefacts that build over months: • Pull the thread, a layered re-reading of today's thought — three hand-written reflections pulled one at a time, deepening what you came to sit with • Thread Letters, a short letter on the first of each month composed from the thoughts you kept that month • Your Virtues, a slow self-portrait that fills in across six axes as you steep • Your Rings, a 12-month cross-section of the threads that shaped your year • Your Words, a typeset page of the words your kept thoughts keep returning to, sized by how often each one came up • Your Year, once a year a long letter composed from twelve months of kept thoughts, with the artefact trio compiled into a single printed-feeling page • The full archive, with no horizon Steep is private by design. Your reflections never leave your phone. There is no analytics, no sync, no server, no account. Apple sees only that you're subscribed. We never see your reflections. A small, careful piece of software, made by one person, slowly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://steepdaily.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://steepdaily.app/privacy

Screenshots

Anniversary+ Countdown Widget4 screens
Steep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Anniversary+ Countdown Widget at 11 against Steep's 1. Steep's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). 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. Anniversary+ Countdown Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Steep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Anniversary+ Countdown Widget against 5.0 for Steep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anniversary+ Countdown Widget has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anniversary+ Countdown Widget ships an update every 5 days, Steep every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Anniversary+ Countdown Widget versus Steep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnniversary+ Countdown WidgetSteep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer亮 吴Alex Stewart

Customer experience

Anniversary+ Countdown Widget

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Steep

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Anniversary+ Countdown Widget

Subscriptions1
  • Subscribe monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Purchase$2.99
3 purchases

Steep

Subscriptions2
  • Steep Premium · Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Steep Premium · Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Steep Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Anniversary+ Countdown Widget free?
Anniversary+ Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steep free?
Steep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Anniversary+ Countdown Widget or Steep?
Anniversary+ Countdown Widget and Steep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 11 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Anniversary+ Countdown Widget or Steep have ads?
Neither Anniversary+ Countdown Widget nor Steep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anniversary+ Countdown Widget or Steep?
Anniversary+ Countdown Widget ships an update every 5 days, and Steep every 2 days. Most recently, Anniversary+ Countdown Widget was updated on October 9, 2026 and Steep on October 14, 2026.

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