Comparison

CountedDays vs Countdown

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable countdowns
  • Home Screen and Apple Watch widgets
  • Flexible counting units (days, weeks, custom)
  • Photo backgrounds
  • Offline functionality
  • Event organization with tags
  • Shareable countdowns
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable event widgets
  • Home and Lock Screen support
  • Yearly repeating event options
  • Multiple reminder options
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Private by design
Features
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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.

Screenshots

CountedDays4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CountedDays sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CountedDays versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountedDaysCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElpax ABJack Isherwood

Customer experience

CountedDays

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

Countdown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CountedDays

One-time1
  • CountedDays Supporter Pack$0.99
None

Countdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CountedDays free?
CountedDays is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CountedDays or Countdown?
CountedDays and Countdown are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do CountedDays or Countdown have ads?
Neither CountedDays nor Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CountedDays or Countdown?
CountedDays ships an update every 4 days, and Countdown every 2 days. Most recently, CountedDays was updated on November 9, 2026 and Countdown on November 10, 2026.

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