Comparison

Countdown vs DocFind

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns and count-ups
  • Home-screen widget
  • Customizable visualizations
  • Workdays-only counting
  • Pattern dates for floating holidays
  • Apple Calendar sync
  • Lock Screen widgets
Features
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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 frosted Frost card finish - 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 monthly or annual subscription; the annual plan includes 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

About

DocFind

Features
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DocFind searches inside many PDFs at once on your iPhone — scanned PDFs included — and opens each result at the page where your words appear, highlighted. Nothing is uploaded: indexing, searching and reading scanned pages all happen on your device. Most PDF apps can open one file and find a word on the page you are looking at. DocFind builds a searchable index of an entire library, so one query returns every match across every document, ranked, with the page number and the surrounding sentence. SCANNED PDFs ARE SEARCHABLE TOO A scanned document is a picture of text. Ordinary search finds nothing in it, which is why so many of your files seem to be invisible. DocFind runs on-device OCR over scanned pages and folds the recognised words straight into the same index — so a word that exists only as pixels becomes a word you can find. Results found this way are labelled OCR, so you always know where a match came from. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR PHONE DocFind has no accounts, no sign-in, no servers and no ads. DocFind itself contains no networking code — searching, indexing, OCR and export never touch a connection — so your documents are never uploaded; there is nowhere to upload them to. The only web content it shows is its own website and privacy policy, and Apple's standard licence agreement, in Apple's Safari sheet, which the app cannot read. Nothing is collected about you. WHAT YOU GET • Search across a whole library of PDFs in one query • Ranked results with page numbers and a snippet of the matching sentence • Tap a result to open the page with the match highlighted, and step through matches • On-device OCR for scanned and photographed documents, with OCR-sourced hits labelled • Persistent libraries — index once, then search again any time without re-indexing • Honest progress and honest limits: DocFind tells you when a page is not searchable yet, and why • Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, and light and dark appearance TRY IT WITH NO SETUP Tap "Try the demo" on the first screen. DocFind creates sample documents on your device, indexes them, runs OCR on a scanned receipt and searches them — no files, no account, no waiting. Leaving the demo removes every trace of it. FREE AND PRO DocFind is free to use as a complete keyword search: unlimited searches, unlimited search terms, and every result shown — never a truncated list. The free tier covers one library of up to 25 documents, and it includes 10 pages of OCR and 10 exports every month — enough to watch a scan become searchable, and enough again next month, before you decide. DocFind Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a single payment, and adds: • Unlimited documents and unlimited libraries • Unlimited on-device OCR • Unlimited exports — as CSV, as Markdown, as a formatted PDF report, or as a new PDF containing only the pages that matched SUBSCRIPTION TERMS The monthly and yearly plans are auto-renewable subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically for the same period unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and the account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of that. Manage your plan or turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings at any time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://docfindapp.com/privacy PRIVACY DocFind collects nothing, and it cannot: there is no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK and no networking code in the app. Files are opened only when you choose them, through the system file picker. Exports leave your device only if you deliberately send them somewhere using the share sheet. Requires iOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

Countdown4 screens
DocFind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Countdown at 5 against DocFind's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Countdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and DocFind sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown ships an update every 4 days, DocFind every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Countdown versus DocFind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdownDocFind
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHello Good Day LLCJyoti Burujpatte

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Countdown

Subscriptions2
  • Countdown Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Countdown Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Countdown Premium$9.99
3 purchases

DocFind

Subscriptions2
  • DocFind Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • DocFind Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • DocFind Pro$29.99

Questions

Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocFind free?
DocFind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countdown or DocFind have ads?
Neither Countdown nor DocFind shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countdown or DocFind?
Countdown ships an update every 4 days, and DocFind every 5 days. Most recently, Countdown was updated on October 10, 2026 and DocFind on October 9, 2026.

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