Clean Countdown Widget vs count.live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clean Countdown Widget
This utility displays the number of days until a significant event. It offers customization for event names, dates, typefaces, and background colors, with support for light and dark modes. The app also tracks days since an event has passed and requires no login or data collection.
- Displays days until an event
- Customizable event name and date
- Typeface customization
- Background color options
- Light and Dark appearance modes
- Counts days since an event
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The Clean Countdown widget shows you how many days away an important event is. It's designed to be simple but customizable with no ads or logins. Set the name of your event and a date, and the widget will show how many days away that event is. You can customize the typeface by swiping on the countdown number in the app, and customize the background color by swiping through a few color options. The app supports Light and Dark appearance modes. After the event, the app will tell you how many days it has been since that day if you want to count up from a particular day. No login required, no data collected, no advertisements. This is the kind of countdown app that I wanted for myself, so I created it.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Clean Countdown Widget at every 2 days against count.live's every 9 days. count.live's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
count.live holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Clean Countdown Widget ships an update every 2 days, count.live every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean Countdown Widget | count.live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Richardson | Can Koecher |
Customer experience
Clean Countdown Widget
count.live
In-app purchases
Clean Countdown Widget
No in-app purchases
count.live
No in-app purchases
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