Comparison

Dingly vs Deadline Countdown

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

Head to head
About

Dingly

Features
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Dingly reads the calendars you choose and rings a real alarm before each meeting, so you're never caught off guard. - Real alarms: Dingly uses the same system alarms as the Clock app, so they ring even when your iPhone is on silent or in a Focus, and even if Dingly isn't open. - Two alerts per meeting: 15 minutes and 1 minute before by default. Change either one. - Meetings that start at the same time share one alarm. - Snooze or stop right from the alarm. - Skip a single meeting with a swipe; it won't ring on any of your devices. - Join Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Webex calls right from the list or the countdown. - A countdown to your next meeting in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, in your calendar's color. It appears with the first alarm, keeps counting down to the last one, and goes away when you stop it. Only ever one per meeting. - Choose from a set of pleasant alarm sounds. - Ignore meetings by keyword (like "lunch"), skip weekends, and pick which calendars to watch. - See your meetings for the days ahead, and keep up with your calendar automatically. A Shortcuts action can sync it any time. - Pause for a vacation, get a morning summary, ask Siri or use the widget to join or skip a meeting, and get a warning if a meeting's video link changes. - Add a short note to any meeting; it shows highlighted on its alarm and countdown. - Ring earlier for the meetings that need it: choose a first alert for one meeting, a whole series, or every meeting with a keyword like "kid pickup". - Works on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad, in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Requires iOS 26.

About

Deadline Countdown

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A missed deadline is never small. The payment that turns into a late fee. The passport that expires the month you need it. The filing that blows the case. Deadline Docket is the docket for those dates — the obligations you cannot afford to lose track of. Open it and the answer is immediate: what is overdue, what is due today, tomorrow, and what is next. No digging, no feed, no noise. USE IT FOR • Bills and payments with hard due dates • Passport, license, and registration renewals • Court and filing deadlines • Forms, applications, and submissions • Appointments you cannot miss • Any obligation that needs one clear place to live HOW IT WORKS • Add a deadline in seconds — name, date, done • Everything grouped the way you triage: Overdue, Today, Tomorrow, Next • Scan the whole docket at a glance and act • Your deadlines stay on your device SIMPLE ON PURPOSE This is not a party countdown app, a calendar replacement, or a project-management suite. No account. No feed. No social layer. A docket does one job: nothing on it gets forgotten. SIMPLE PRICING One purchase — 99Ā¢ in the U.S. (pricing varies by region). No subscription. No ads. Nothing recurring. Pay once and keep your deadlines in front of you. https://myworkingmemory.ai/deadlinedocket-privacy.html https://myworkingmemory.ai/deadlinedocket-terms.html

Screenshots

Dingly4 screens
Deadline Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dingly at every 6 days against Deadline Countdown's fortnightly. Deadline Countdown's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dingly ships an update every 6 days, Deadline Countdown fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Dingly versus Deadline Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDinglyDeadline Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJiro FeingoldMyworkingmemory LLC

In-app purchases

None

Dingly

No in-app purchases

None

Deadline Countdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dingly free?
Dingly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deadline Countdown free?
Deadline Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dingly or Deadline Countdown have ads?
Neither Dingly nor Deadline Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dingly or Deadline Countdown?
Dingly ships an update every 6 days, and Deadline Countdown fortnightly. Most recently, Dingly was updated on October 28, 2026 and Deadline Countdown on October 22, 2026.

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