Comparison

Milestone vs anyCountdown

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

Head to head
About

Milestone

Log, visualize, and share your proudest moments and achievements. Track life's highlights across custom categories, build momentum with friends, and never forget a memory with automated reminders and visual consistency tracking.

Highlights
  • Log milestones across custom categories
  • Assign rarities to achievements
  • Share achievements with friends
  • Co-author shared milestones
  • Automated anniversary reminders
  • GitHub-style consistency heatmap
Features
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Milestone is the premium achievement tracker and digital vault designed to help you celebrate your journey. Whether you are building a new habit, hitting a career goal, traveling the world, or simply having a great day, Milestone helps you log, visualize, and share your proudest moments. TRACK YOUR LIFE'S HIGHLIGHTS • Log milestones across custom categories (Fitness, Career, Travel, and more). • Assign rarities (Bronze to Platinum) to distinguish daily wins from life-changing events. • Watch your personal Timeline grow into a beautiful, scrollable history of your life. BUILD MOMENTUM WITH FRIENDS • Add friends and seamlessly share your achievements to a private, secure feed. • Co-author shared milestones! Tag a friend, and the achievement instantly pins to both of your vaults. • Send real-time emoji reactions and haptic high-fives to celebrate your friends' wins. • Compete on the Pulse Leaderboard to see who has the longest active logging streak. NEVER FORGET A MEMORY • Receive automated 1-Year "Anniversary Echoes" to remind you of past achievements. • Set precise, dynamic push notifications for specific goals. • Visualize your consistency with the beautiful GitHub-style Heatmap. Your journey matters. Start logging your milestones today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

anyCountdown

This widget app helps you visualize important upcoming dates with customizable designs. Track events like weddings, birthdays, and holidays directly on your Home and Lock Screens. It offers a variety of themes and personalization options, with an option to count up after an event occurs.

Highlights
  • Customizable Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Over 30 hand-crafted widget styles
  • Count-up mode for past events
  • Personalize with own photos, fonts, and colors
  • No sign-in required
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
Features
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Every big moment deserves a beautiful countdown. Countdown is the widget app that puts your most important days front and centre on your Home Screen and Lock Screen — stunning, glanceable, and always up to date. Whether you are counting down to your wedding day, the arrival of a new baby, a dream holiday, a big exam, or retirement, Countdown turns any date into a beautiful widget you will look forward to seeing every time you pick up your phone. BEAUTIFUL WIDGETS FOR EVERY OCCASION Countdown offers more than 30 hand-crafted widget styles, from elegant wedding florals and botanical watercolours to bold minimalist type, K-pop fan themes, anime-inspired designs, and even memento mori styles for the philosophically inclined. There is a theme for every personality and every event. Widgets live on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, so your countdown is always visible without opening the app. Choose from small, medium, and large sizes to fit your layout perfectly. EVENTS WE LOVE Wedding and engagement countdowns. Baby due dates and pregnancy milestones. Birthday and anniversary reminders. Christmas and New Year anticipation. Graduation day. Retirement. Next holiday or cruise. Exam dates. Sobriety milestones. The start of a new school year. Any date that matters to you. COUNT UP AS WELL AS DOWN Once your event arrives, Countdown does not go dark. Switch to count-up mode and watch the days, months, and years accumulate since that special moment — perfect for tracking how long you have been married, how old your child is, or how long you have maintained a healthy streak. NO SIGN-IN REQUIRED Countdown does not ask for an account, an email address, or a subscription. Open the app, create your event, pick a theme, and your widget is live. Your data syncs automatically across all your Apple devices via iCloud. PERSONALISE EVERYTHING Add your own photos as widget backgrounds. Choose fonts, colours, and layouts. Give each countdown a name. Whether you want something romantic and ornate or clean and modern, you will find the perfect look. FREE AND PRO Countdown is free to download and use. Upgrade to Pro for a one-time payment of $9.99 to unlock all widget styles and future updates. Individual theme packs are also available for $3.99 each if you prefer to pick only what you love. There is no subscription, no hidden cost, and no data harvesting. Pay once, enjoy forever. START YOUR COUNTDOWN TODAY Your wedding is getting closer. Your baby is almost here. The holiday you have been planning for months is nearly in reach. Download Countdown and make every day feel like it counts. Terms of Use: https://markg.app/apps/countdown/terms Privacy Policy: https://markg.app/apps/countdown/privacy

Screenshots

Milestone4 screens
anyCountdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Milestone at 5.0 against anyCountdown's 1.0. Milestone also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). anyCountdown's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, 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

Both are free to download. Milestone sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and anyCountdown sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Milestone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Milestone versus anyCountdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMilestoneanyCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB696 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPratik GhimireTu Hoang

Customer experience

Milestone

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

anyCountdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Milestone

Subscriptions2
  • Milestone Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Milestone Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
4 purchases

anyCountdown

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Milestone free?
Milestone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is anyCountdown free?
anyCountdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Milestone or anyCountdown?
Milestone is rated higher. Milestone averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while anyCountdown averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Milestone or anyCountdown have ads?
Milestone shows ads; anyCountdown does not.

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