Comparison

Countline vs Forager's Field Notes

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

Head to head
About

Countline

This app helps you track important dates and events, plan the steps leading up to them with checklists, and stay organized with customizable cards, reminders, and widgets. It offers a clean, minimal design with ready-made event ideas to help you manage your life and focus on what matters.

Highlights
  • Create countdowns for events
  • Add checklists to events
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Organize events by category
  • Customize event appearance
  • Set event reminders
  • Ready-made event ideas
Features
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Countline is more than a day counter. It helps you track important events, plan the steps before them, and keep everything close with clean cards, checklists, reminders, and widgets. Waiting for a birthday, vacation, holiday, anniversary, personal goal, deadline, or major life event? Countline helps you not only see how many days are left, but also prepare for what truly matters. EVENTS THAT FEEL EASY TO MANAGE Create an event in seconds: - add a title - choose a date - add a checklist if needed No complex forms. No visual noise. Just a simple way to keep important dates under control. CHECKLISTS FOR EVERY EVENT Every event can have its own checklist. Use it for: - birthday preparation - travel planning - holiday tasks - personal goals - challenges - shopping lists - deadlines - routines before an important day A date is only the final point. The steps leading up to it often matter just as much. WIDGETS Keep upcoming events on your screen without opening the app. Add countdown widgets to your Home Screen or Lock Screen and always know what is coming next. CATEGORIES Organize events your way: - personal events - holidays - goals - custom categories Keep your countdowns clean, focused, and easy to find. DESIGN AND CUSTOMIZATION Countline is designed to feel calm and minimal. Customize events with themes, colors, and styles — without adding noise to your event list. READY-MADE EVENT IDEAS Start faster with ready-made event ideas, scenarios, notes, and checklists. Use them for inspiration or adapt them to your own life. REMINDERS Set reminders for important events so you do not miss what matters. Get notified on the day of the event or ahead of time. FEATURES - Create countdowns for important events - Track days before or after a date - Add checklists to events - Add widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen - Organize events by category - Customize colors, themes, and styles - Use reminders before events Countline helps you focus on what matters — not only the day itself, but also the path leading up to it. Privacy Policy: https://www.countline.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.countline.app/terms

About

Forager's Field Notes

Features
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Forager's Field Notes is a private foraging journal and field log book for mushroom hunters and wild-food foragers. Log every foraging find, save your secret patches on an offline map, and — with Field Notes+ — see when your spots come back into season, worked out on your phone from your own foraging diary. No account. No ads. Your spots never leave your phone. SAFETY FIRST: A FORAGING JOURNAL, NOT AN IDENTIFIER Forager's Field Notes never identifies a plant or mushroom and never tells you that anything is edible or safe to eat. You name every find yourself — you are the forager. Never eat anything based on this app: always confirm a find with a qualified local expert and reliable references first, and when in doubt, throw it out. LOG A FIND IN SECONDS - Your own name for what you found, plus a category: mushroom, greens, berry, nut, herb, root - Quantity or yield, habitat, notes and a photo from your library - Dated automatically when you save, and attached to a patch if you like - Your whole foraging log, newest first, with the photo right in the list REMEMBER EVERY PATCH - Save a secret foraging spot once and attach finds to it - Drop a GPS pin only when you tap "use my location" — no background location, no tracking - A tile-free map of your foraging patches that works in airplane mode: nothing to download, no signal needed CONFIRM — DON'T IDENTIFY (always free) Before you mark a find "self-confirmed", work through a checklist of your own foraging observations: spore print, gills or pores, ring and volva, habitat, bruising and smell for fungi; leaves, smell, sap and growth habit for plants. The app reminds you to rule out the deadly lookalike and asks you to confirm that you, not the app, decide what is safe. "Self-confirmed" records your own diligence — never a verdict. OFFLINE LOOKALIKE CARDS (always free) Six "deadly twin" cards help you rule a find out: true vs false morel, chanterelle vs jack-o'-lantern, puffball vs young Amanita, wild garlic vs lily-of-the-valley and autumn crocus, elderberry vs pokeweed and water hemlock, wild carrot vs poison hemlock. Education, not identification. FIELD NOTES+ (optional) Three rule-based insights built only from your own foraging journal, right on your phone — no AI, no network, no account: - Patch-return reminders in the app — "last September you found chanterelles at Cedar Creek: time to check" - Seasonality — the weeks each find turns up in your foraging spots, and whether you are in the window now - Your foraging year — finds, species, busiest month and top patch Logging, patches, the map and the whole safety layer stay free forever — no card required. LOG HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI On iOS 16 or later, say "Log a find in Forager's Field Notes" and add a note — it's waiting in your journal the next time you open the app. (Siri phrases are in English.) INVITE A FRIEND Share your invite code and you both get 30 days of Field Notes+ free. The invite shares only anonymous ids and the code — never your finds or your spots. HONEST PRICING - Annual, with a 7-day free trial - Monthly - Lifetime — one payment, no subscription All three unlock the same Field Notes+. Prices show in your own currency in the app, and billing is handled by the App Store — cancel anytime. Terms of Use (EULA): https://adelyons.com/apps/foragersfieldnotes/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://adelyons.com/apps/foragersfieldnotes/privacy.html PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No account, no sign-up, no ads - Finds, patches, pins and photos stay on this device - Works offline on every foraging trip, even in airplane mode Important: Forager's Field Notes is for recording and learning only. It does not identify species and does not assess whether anything is edible or safe. Never eat any wild find based on this app; always confirm with a qualified local expert and reliable references before consuming anything you forage.

Screenshots

Countline4 screens
Forager's Field Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Forager's Field Notes at 15.0 against Countline's 17.0.1. 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. Countline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Forager's Field Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countline ships an update every 11 days, Forager's Field Notes weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Countline versus Forager's Field Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountlineForager's Field Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.0.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB28 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRoman ZapotichnyiAdelyons Software LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Countline

One-time1
  • Themes & Categories$4.99
3 purchases

Forager's Field Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Countline free?
Countline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forager's Field Notes free?
Forager's Field Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Countline or Forager's Field Notes have ads?
Neither Countline nor Forager's Field Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Countline or Forager's Field Notes?
Countline ships an update every 11 days, and Forager's Field Notes weekly. Most recently, Countline was updated on October 25, 2026 and Forager's Field Notes on October 25, 2026.

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