Countdown vs Days Counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Track upcoming events and past milestones with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Offers a free tier with essential features and a premium upgrade for advanced visualizations and integrations. Designed for a calm, glanceable experience.
- Unlimited countdowns and count-ups
- Home-screen widget
- Customizable visualizations
- Workdays-only counting
- Pattern dates for floating holidays
- Apple Calendar sync
- Lock Screen widgets
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Count down to what matters. No ads. No account. Your countdowns sync privately through iCloud, so a new phone never means starting over. THE BASICS, FREE - Unlimited countdowns and count-ups (days since) - A free home-screen widget — no paywall on the basics - Beautiful editorial cards with curated colors - Tags, custom views, search, and archive - Workdays-only counting that skips weekends - Pattern dates like "3rd Sunday of May" for floating holidays PREMIUM Unlock everything with a one-time purchase. - Every visualization: dot grid, segments, rings, flip clock, bloom, orbit, temperature and more - Year Grid: every day of the year in one screen, your events shown as emoji - Photo backgrounds and a glass card style that shows your wallpaper through - Custom fonts, decorations, and the full colour picker - Multi-event and Lock Screen widgets - Reminder notifications and two-way Apple Calendar sync DESIGNED TO FEEL CALM A warm, editorial look with custom typography — built for glancing, not fiddling. If dates sneak up on you (hello, time blindness), the grid shows everything coming at a glance, and Live Activities keep the big day on your Lock Screen. Prefer to buy once? The Lifetime unlock is a single purchase — no renewal, no expiry. Countdown Premium is also available as a subscription: • Monthly — $1.99/month • Annual — $6.99/year, with a 3-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://hellogoodday.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://hellogoodday.com/countdown/terms
Days Counter
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See "how many days" at a glance — and make every day a little more exciting. Trips, concerts, exams, weddings. Or the day you met, the day they were born, the day you quit smoking. DaysCounter shows both "days until" and "days since," beautifully layered over your favorite photos. ■ WIDGETS THAT UPDATE RELIABLY DaysCounter pre-renders 14 days of widget timelines in advance, so your numbers tick over reliably at midnight — every night. Full support for Home Screen widgets (small, medium, large) and Lock Screen widgets (circular, rectangular, inline). ■ COUNT DOWN AND COUNT UP Future dates count down, past dates count up — detected automatically, switchable manually. And when there's less than a day left, YOU decide whether it switches to hours or stays in days. ■ PHOTO-FIRST DESIGN Your photos, full screen. One big beautiful number on top. No photo? Choose from 5 free preset backgrounds or 50 premium designs. ■ REPEATING EVENTS Birthdays repeat yearly, payday monthly, trash day weekly. Set once and the date rolls forward automatically. ■ AND MORE - Organize events with 12 categories - Notifications: on the day, 1 day before, 1 week before, or custom - iCloud sync — switch phones without losing anything - JSON backup & restore - Share your countdown as an image on social media ■ FREE vs PRO Everything essential is free: unlimited events, all widget types (with ads). Upgrade to Pro — a one-time purchase, not a subscription: - Remove all ads forever - Unlock all 50 premium backgrounds - Create custom categories - Business-day counting and repeat-every-X-days No subscriptions. Pay once, keep it forever. Keep the days that matter where you can always see them. Start counting today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Countdown at none against Days Counter's shown. Countdown also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (5 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Days Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, Days Counter every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Countdown | Days Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hello Good Day LLC | Ke Tong |
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Countdown Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Countdown Premium$9.99
Days Counter
- DaysCounter Pro$2.99





