Comparison

Awan vs Countdown Keeper

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

Head to head
About

Awan

Never forget a task again with location-based reminders. Set alerts to trigger when you arrive at or leave a specific place, with no manual input needed. The app runs quietly in the background to ensure you're notified.

Highlights
  • Location-based reminders
  • Background operation
  • Map-based location selection
  • Adjustable alert radius
  • Dual alert types
  • Multilingual support
Features
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Awan turns your reminders into something that actually reaches you — at the exact place, time, or moment you need them. Most reminder apps only nag you by the clock. Awan also watches the world around you: it can alert you the second you arrive somewhere, the moment you leave, or right when you connect or disconnect from your car — so a reminder finally shows up when it's useful, not hours too early. WHY AWAN • Location reminders: get alerted when you ARRIVE at or LEAVE a place. • Car reminders: fire the moment you connect to (or disconnect from) your car — perfect for "grab the parcel," "check the trunk," or "log mileage." • Time reminders: classic time-of-day alerts, with several fire times in a single day. • Auto parking memory: when you disconnect from your car, Awan remembers where you parked so you can walk straight back to it. • Saved places: bookmark home, work, the gym, your kids' school — and reuse them in seconds. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Flexible schedules: every day, specific weekdays, or a date range. • Time windows: only get alerted between the hours you choose. • Urgent alerts: a louder, attention-grabbing alarm for the things you truly can't miss. • Repeat until acknowledged: keeps reminding until you actually deal with it. • CarPlay: see what's relevant and get your alerts right on the car screen. • Scan Text: point your camera at a note, sign, or receipt and turn it into a reminder. • Hijri or Gregorian: view dates in the calendar you prefer. • iCloud sync: your reminders and places stay in step across your devices. • Arabic & English with full right-to-left support. PRIVACY FIRST Your location is used only to trigger the reminders you create. Nothing about where you go is sold or shared. Download Awan and let your reminders find you at the right place and the right time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Countdown Keeper

Features
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Countdown answers one simple question: how long has it been since an important date in your life — or how long until it comes? Save the dates that shaped your story — your date of birth, your first child's birth, your wedding, your graduation, moving into your home, your first day at work — and Countdown tells you exactly how long it has been, in years, months and days, on a live counter that updates every second. For dates still ahead — your retirement, the end of your home loan, a contract's end — it shows exactly how long is left. No sign-up and no clutter: you open the app and see your counters. Every date flips from "how long until" to "how long since" on its own the moment it arrives, so your timeline stays honest without you touching a thing. Countdown speaks both calendars. Count any date in Gregorian or in the Hijri (Umm al-Qura) calendar, and choose the right calendar for each date individually. Have a date in the other calendar? Convert it in the Date converter and save it straight away — no need to switch the app's calendar. • See how long since an important date, or how long until one ahead • Live counters that update every second • Choose exactly which units to show — years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds • Both calendars: Gregorian and Hijri (Umm al-Qura), per date • Event Story: write the story behind any date and reveal it below its card with a tap • Monthly recurring dates like salary and rent, rolling forward automatically • Reminders before a date — at the time, a day before, or a week before • Repeat a reminder after 5 or 10 minutes, with "Remind again" from the reminder history • Give each date an emoji icon or your own photo, and pick a card colour • Several card styles, and pin your most important dates to the home screen • Built-in date tools: Hijri ↔ Gregorian converter, age calculator, date difference, add & subtract days, and a retirement estimator • Encrypted backup of all your data, restored whenever you need • Export and import your dates as a JSON file • Optional app lock with fingerprint or Face ID • 18 languages: English, Arabic, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Urdu, Bengali and Hindi — with full right-to-left support for Arabic and Urdu Countdown is more than a reminder app. It is a calm, living timeline of the dates that shaped your story — and the ones still ahead. Instead of counting the years in your head or digging through old papers, keep every important date in one simple place and always know, at a glance, how long it has been and how long is left. Start free and add up to 5 events. When you need more, you can purchase the full version to add more events and use Countdown beyond the free event limit. Countdown needs no account, works fully offline, and your data stays on your device.

Screenshots

Awan4 screens
Countdown Keeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Countdown Keeper at 3 against Awan's 1. Countdown Keeper also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). 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. Awan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month and Countdown Keeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Awan versus Countdown Keeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwanCountdown Keeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMamdouh AlharbiAbdul Almm

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Awan

Subscriptions2
  • Awan monthly$0.491 Month
  • Awan Annual7 Days trial$4.991 Year
1 purchases

Countdown Keeper

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$0.99

Questions

Is Awan free?
Awan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown Keeper free?
Countdown Keeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Awan or Countdown Keeper have ads?
Neither Awan nor Countdown Keeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Awan or Countdown Keeper?
Awan ships an update weekly, and Countdown Keeper weekly. Most recently, Awan was updated on September 23, 2026 and Countdown Keeper on October 10, 2026.

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