Comparison

SleepNote vs Countdown Widget

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

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About

SleepNote

Record and analyze overnight sounds like dream talk and snoring. Review sleep events, track trends, and gain insights into your sleep patterns with detailed reports and history filtering. Designed for a private, low-interruption experience.

Highlights
  • Night sound recording
  • Dream talk/snore detection
  • Sleep event review
  • Tagging sleep events
  • Sleep trend analysis
  • Weekly sleep reports
  • History filtering
Features
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SleepNote is a night sound recording and sleep review app that helps you capture dream talk, snoring, movement sounds, and other overnight events, then review what happened more clearly the next day. With SleepNote, you can: - Record night sounds and detect dream talk, snoring, and other sleep events - Read everything you said in your sleep in Dream Talk Journal, search across nights, replay each line, and share the good ones - Catch up on the night with Last Night in 30 Seconds, a highlight reel built for you - Run Sleep Experiments on habits such as coffee, alcohol, or staying up late and see how strong the evidence is - Review single-night details, event timelines, and highlights - Add tags such as coffee, stress, alcohol, and exercise to each night - Explore trends, weekly sleep reports, and tag impact insights in Stats - Filter History by date range, tag, and event type to quickly find the nights you want to revisit Core features include: - Night recording and event detection - Dream talk journal with cross-night search (on-device, nothing uploaded) - 30-second nightly highlight reel with continuous playback - Sleep experiments with evidence strength - Dream talk / snore / noise logging - Single-night detail and timeline review - Tagging and tag impact insights - Weekly sleep reports - History filtering - On-device sleep analysis - 8-language support Speech recognition, statistics, and experiment analysis all run on your device, and your recordings and text are never uploaded. SleepNote stays local-first, account-free, and low-interruption, designed for people who want to observe night sound patterns over time. SleepNote does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment advice. Everything in the app is for personal observation and review only. Feature requests and improvement ideas are welcome: Email: 842797413@qq.com Every piece of feedback is carefully reviewed.

About

Countdown Widget

This app helps you count down to important dates like birthdays, holidays, and trips with customizable widgets. It supports public holidays from 27 countries and allows you to share your countdowns.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets for countdowns
  • Import public holidays from 27 countries
  • Track days, weeks, months, or years
  • One-time purchase, no subscriptions
  • Shareable event cards
  • Customizable event ordering
Features
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Till Then is a countdown app for everything you are looking forward to. Add birthdays, trips, holidays, anniversaries, or any date that matters, and see exactly how many days are left, right from your Home Screen. COMPLETELY REDESIGNED A whole new look from the ground up: simpler and more beautiful. Tap + and type "Vacation July 12", and the date is found for you. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Follow the final stretch as a Live Activity. The last hours tick down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never have to open the app to know how close you are. WIDGET STUDIO Build your own widgets right in the app. Pick the countdowns, choose a style (a list, one countdown, a timeline, or the day, week, month and year) and see it in every size, from small to a whole page. Then pick it on your Home Screen. ON YOUR WRIST A full Apple Watch app, plus complications for your watch face. Pick any countdown and keep it in view all day. HOLIDAYS FROM 27 COUNTRIES Import public holidays with a single tap. Add them all at once or pick your favorites. Moving holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving and Midsummer are calculated years ahead, so they always land on the right day. Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO TRACK Track days, weeks, months, or years until any date. Add one-time events or annual repeating events, or count up from a date that has already passed. Give a countdown an exact time of day and watch it tick down in hours, then in minutes. Reorder your list exactly how you want, or let the app sort automatically by what is coming up next. MAKE IT YOURS Give any countdown a photo of its own. It fills the featured card, your widget and the card you share. Repeat a countdown in the same week every year, and type "Trip July 12" to have the date suggested for you. JUST ASK "What's next in Till Then?" or "How long until my birthday?" Siri answers on the spot. Your countdowns turn up in Spotlight too, with the time remaining right there in the result. BRING YOUR DATES WITH YOU Import events from your calendar, and send any moment back to it with a reminder. Your countdowns stay on your device and syncs privately through iCloud. No account, no tracking. SHARE THE EXCITEMENT Long-press any event to share a Story-format card, or send a live link that keeps counting down for whoever opens it. Perfect for letting friends know how many days until your birthday, wedding, or next big adventure. MADE TO FEEL AT HOME A polished dark mode, eight signature gradient styles, 180 symbols to pick from, and 13 languages. FREE FOR 7 DAYS Try everything free for a week. After that, a single purchase unlocks Till Then for good. No subscription, and nothing is charged automatically. Already bought Till Then? Everything stays yours.

Screenshots

SleepNote4 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Countdown Widget at Free against SleepNote's $2.99. Countdown Widget also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). SleepNote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On ads, monetization model and device support 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

Countdown Widget is free to download; SleepNote costs $2.99 up front. Countdown Widget sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SleepNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SleepNote ships an update every 6 weeks, Countdown Widget weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SleepNote versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleepNoteCountdown Widget
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鹏 杨David Svensson

Customer experience

SleepNote

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Countdown Widget

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SleepNote

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Countdown Widget

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Unlock Till Then$3.99

Questions

Is SleepNote free?
SleepNote costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SleepNote or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither SleepNote nor Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SleepNote or Countdown Widget?
SleepNote ships an update every 6 weeks, and Countdown Widget weekly. Most recently, SleepNote was updated on October 31, 2026 and Countdown Widget on November 2, 2026.

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