Comparison

'Til vs Until

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

Head to head
About

'Til

Features
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'Til counts down to the dates you care about: birthdays, holidays, trips, due dates, deadlines, and anniversaries. It's free for 7 days. After that, one purchase unlocks it for good. No subscription, no ads. WIDGETS Add a widget to your Home Screen (small, medium, or large) or Lock Screen (rectangular, circular, or inline). It shows your next countdown. THE FINAL DAY On the day of the event, the countdown switches to hours, minutes, and seconds, in the app and on the widget. REMINDERS Set a reminder a week before, the day before, or on the day. You can also pick a custom date and time, write your own reminder text, and turn sound on or off for each countdown. Countdowns set to repeat annually move to the next year on their own. LOCK SCREEN Your next countdown shows as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and updates on its own. When it ends, 'Til can move straight on to the next one. FROM YOUR CALENDAR Bring in any event and 'Til fills in the name and date for you. Search to find it in seconds. Leave it connected, and if the event moves, your countdown moves with it. Your calendar stays on your iPhone. DETAILS Give each countdown one of six colors: rose, amber, sage, sky, lavender, or graphite. Set the app to Light, Dark, or System appearance. Choose from every emoji, and add Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year in one tap. Press and hold to arrange your countdowns in any order, sort them by time remaining, and swipe left to remove one. Tap a countdown for a full-screen view. Tap a notification or widget to open the right one. Share a countdown as a link. Everything stays on your device. No account, no cloud, no tracking. PRICING Seven days free, then one payment. Your countdowns stay whether or not you buy, so nothing is lost if you unlock later.

About

Until

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Until is a countdown app that does one thing exceptionally well. Create a countdown to anything: a birthday, a trip, a wedding, a premiere, an exam, a personal goal. Open the app and instantly see the thing you are waiting for, huge and beautiful, counting down in real time. WHAT MAKES UNTIL SPECIAL Sky, the living theme. The background drifts through sunrise, daylight, sunset and night, following your day. Or pick a curated color theme, or use your own photo, gently dimmed behind the numbers. The display adapts. Years become months, months become days, and the final hour becomes a ticking clock. Tap the number to switch between automatic, total days, or total hours. Some people just want to watch 100 hours counting down. Celebrations. When zero arrives, the screen blooms into a short message that feels like an achievement, with a sound you chose. Pick from gentle chimes, triumphant fanfares, insistent alarms, or import your own sound. It follows you. A Live Activity keeps your countdown ticking in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. A notification rings the moment it ends, even when the app is closed. Timers too. Count down a duration instead of a date: two hours, one hundred hours, sixty seconds. Pause, stop, and start over. SIMPLE ON PURPOSE No accounts. No feeds. No clutter. No data collection at all. Swipe between countdowns, tap to rename, done. Try Until free for three days. One purchase of $1.99 unlocks it forever.

Screenshots

'Til4 screens
Until4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Until at daily against 'Til's every 2 months. 'Til's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. 'Til sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Until sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

'Til ships an update every 2 months, Until daily. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
'Til versus Until: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter'TilUntil
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size33 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJake LarsenBejo Dohmen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

'Til

One-time1
  • 'Til Unlock$4.99
1 purchases

Until

One-time1
  • Until Full Version$1.99

Questions

Is 'Til free?
'Til is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Until free?
Until is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 'Til or Until have ads?
Neither 'Til nor Until shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 'Til or Until?
'Til ships an update every 2 months, and Until daily. Most recently, 'Til was updated on November 10, 2026 and Until on November 6, 2026.

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