Countd vs Grass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countd
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How many days until your vacation? Your wedding? Your birthday? Countd gives you a beautiful live countdown to every moment you're looking forward to — ticking down to the exact second. No clutter. No noise. Just the days that matter. FEATURES - Home screen widgets — see your countdown without opening the app - Live countdown to the second - Custom emoji for every event - Yearly repeat for birthdays & anniversaries - Notifications on the day of your event - iCloud sync across all your devices COUNTD PRO Start free with 3 countdowns. Upgrade for unlimited events, home screen widgets, and iCloud sync — free for 7 days, then $1.99/month or $19.99/year. Start counting down to what's next. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Grass
Discover locally owned businesses across the US with this map-based app. It identifies independent shops, restaurants, and services, distinguishing them from chains and private equity-owned establishments. Get detailed information and support your local economy.
- Map of independent businesses
- Ownership information for businesses
- Toggle to reveal chains/PE-owned businesses
- Search by business type or street name
- Top lists by category and distance
- Report map inaccuracies
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Grass is a map of the independent businesses around you, anywhere in the United States. Coffee shops, restaurants, vets, dentists, bookstores, bike shops, hardware stores, gyms, salons, grocers. Grass shows the ones that are still locally owned, and tells you when a familiar name has quietly become part of a chain or been bought by a private equity firm. WHY IT EXISTS Ownership changed hands across America's main streets over the last decade, and most of it happened without a sign on the door. A vet clinic keeps its name after a rollup buys it. A bakery becomes one of forty. Prices go up, staff turn over, and the money leaves town. Grass puts that information back where you can see it: on a map, when you are deciding where to go. WHAT YOU GET • A map of independent businesses near you, with icons for each category, that reads like a normal map and gets richer as you zoom in • A card for every place: category, address, phone, website, and what we know about who owns it • A toggle to reveal chains and private-equity-owned businesses, marked so you can't miss them • Search that understands "taqueria", "dry cleaner", "boba", or a street name, and forgives typos • Top lists by category, ranked by distance from you • Report a mistake straight from a place card. A person reviews every report before the map changes HOW WE KNOW Grass combines OpenStreetMap with public research on business ownership, including partner datasets that track private equity acquisitions in veterinary care and other industries. Every card shows its source. When we don't know, the card says "independent, as far as we know" rather than pretending. MEMBERSHIP Grass is free to use. Members pay what they want, $5, $10 or $15 a year, to fund the ownership research and get recommendations first as each category is ready. No ads, no accounts sold, no tracking. PRIVACY Your location is used to center the map and rank places by distance. It stays on your phone. Read the full policy at cadrecorps.com/grass/privacy. COVERAGE Grass covers the United States. Every city and town with businesses in OpenStreetMap is on the map, and ownership research is ongoing. Reports from people who know their neighborhood are how each place gets more accurate. Grass is made by Cadre, an employee-owned product studio. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cadrecorps.com/grass/privacy
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Verdict
Countd and Grass are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Countd sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Grass sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Countd | Grass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ghada Mostafa | Albert Kim |
In-app purchases
Countd
- Countd Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Countd Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Grass
- $5 Membership$4.991 Year
- $10 Membership$9.991 Year
- $15 Membership$14.991 Year









