CountedDays vs Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CountedDays
Track upcoming events with customizable countdowns displayed on your home screen and Apple Watch. Choose how to count days, add photos, and organize events with tags. Works offline without ads or tracking.
- Customizable countdowns
- Home Screen and Apple Watch widgets
- Flexible counting units (days, weeks, custom)
- Photo backgrounds
- Offline functionality
- Event organization with tags
- Shareable countdowns
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Count down to the dates you care about, your way. CountedDays shows how long until a vacation, wedding, birthday, exam, move, or milestone, right on your Home Screen and Apple Watch. Choose a target date, add a photo, and start counting down. Use every calendar day for a classic countdown, or make it fit real life: count workdays, selected weekdays, whole weeks, training days, class sessions, and more. WHY COUNTEDDAYS • Count down to any future date • Count in days, whole weeks, or your own custom unit • Count only the weekdays you choose • Include or skip individual dates • Add photos and preview your widgets • Show one countdown or a list on your Home Screen • See countdowns on Apple Watch and watch-face complications • Organize everything with tags • Share a countdown as an image or CountedDays file • Works offline. No account, ads, tracking, or analytics CountedDays is free for up to four countdowns at a time, including photo backgrounds and widgets. Archive one when its date has passed and start a new one, as often as you like. The optional Supporter Pack is a one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited countdowns and alternate app icons. No subscription.
Countdown
Track upcoming events like birthdays and trips with customizable widgets for your Home and Lock Screens. Receive timely reminders and sync seamlessly across your devices via iCloud. Enjoy all features for free without ads or in-app purchases.
- Customizable event widgets
- Home and Lock Screen support
- Yearly repeating event options
- Multiple reminder options
- iCloud sync across devices
- Private by design
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Days until the dates you care about: on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Every feature is free: every widget, every reminder, iCloud sync, all 123 icons and 12 colors. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account, no tracking. Add an event, pick a date, and see one big number: the days to go. On the day it reads Today. Afterwards it counts up. EVENTS • A name, a date, one of 123 icons and one of 12 colors for each event. • Birthdays and anniversaries can repeat every year, so they always count down to the next one. • Upcoming events first, soonest at the top. Past events in their own section. • Whole days only. The count changes at midnight, wherever you are. WIDGETS • Small: one event in its own color. Pick the event, or let it follow your next one. • Medium: your next event, and the two after it. • Large: your next six events. • Lock screen: circular, rectangular and inline, each for one event. • Tap any event in a widget to open it. REMINDERS • Choose any of six for each event: on the day, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks or 1 month before. • They arrive at the time you set, 9:00 AM to begin with. • Tap a reminder to open its event. IPHONE AND IPAD • Events sync through your own iCloud. There is nothing to sign in to. • Add an event on one device and it appears on the other. • Without iCloud, everything still works on the device. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your events are kept on your devices and in your own iCloud, where only you can read them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown at none against CountedDays's 1. Countdown also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). CountedDays's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. CountedDays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CountedDays against 5.0 for Countdown. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
CountedDays ships an update every 4 days, Countdown every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CountedDays | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elpax AB | Jack Isherwood |
Customer experience
CountedDays
Countdown
In-app purchases
CountedDays
- CountedDays Supporter Pack$0.99
Countdown
No in-app purchases









