Comparison

Wedding Countdown vs Simple Wedding Planner

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

Head to head
About

Wedding Countdown

Celebrate your engagement with a personalized countdown to your wedding day. Display your remaining time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds with your own photo as the background. Widgets keep the countdown visible on your home and lock screens.

Highlights
  • Personalized countdown display
  • Customizable photo background
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Milestone moment celebrations
  • Wedding day celebration screen
  • Post-wedding anniversary counter
Features
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Congratulations on your engagement and upcoming wedding! You're engaged and now it's time to start the count down to your big day! Until I Do shows you a live countdown to your wedding ceremony in days, hours, minutes and seconds, with your own photo as the background. Set it up in under a minute, then add the widget to your home screen or lock screen so your countdown is always visible. PERSONALISED COUNTDOWN • Open the app to a beautiful full-screen countdown featuring your names, your photo, and your wedding date. Set an optional ceremony time for a countdown to the exact moment you say "I do". Choose from four elegant font styles, ten text colours and ten confetti palettes to make it feel truly yours. WIDGETS • The home screen widget shows your days remaining over your own background photo. Add it to your lock screen too for an even more personal touch. MILESTONE MOMENTS • At key milestone countdown dates, such as 1 year and 30 days to go, the app celebrates with a special confetti moment - a fun reminder that your big day is getting closer. PERSONAL REMINDERS • Set optional reminders for milestones, your wedding morning, your anniversary, and regular weekly or monthly check-ins, so your countdown comes to you. SHARE THE COUNTDOWN • Share your countdown with your partner, bridal party or friends and family via a link or QR code. You can also save your countdown as an image to post on socials! ON YOUR WEDDING DAY • The app switches to a full celebration screen. After the wedding, it counts up on a dedicated anniversary screen, ready to celebrate each year that follows. COMPLETELY PRIVATE • No account required. No sign-up. Your names, date and photo stay on your device. Unlock the full experience with a one-time purchase - up to 5 rotating background photos (each with its own text colour), always-on confetti, every font style, text colour and confetti palette, plus lock screen widgets. No subscription, ever. Please email us or leave feedback in the app for feature requests or any other suggestions you have. We love to hear from you and are always looking for ways to improve Until I Do!

About

Simple Wedding Planner

Organize all your wedding details in one clutter-free space. Manage guest lists, seating arrangements, vendors, budgets, and to-do lists to enjoy the planning process. Offers a private and beautiful interface designed to reduce stress.

Highlights
  • Guest list management with RSVP tracking
  • Seating chart design
  • Vendor contact and contract tracking
  • Expense tracking and budget management
  • Customizable wedding checklist
  • Secure iCloud syncing
Features
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Planning a wedding is beautiful — and a lot. Simple Wedding Planner keeps every detail in one calm, clutter-free place, so you can stay organized and actually enjoy the journey to your big day. From your guest list to your budget, it brings the five things that matter most into one elegant app. No ads. No noise. No endless tabs — just a clean, private space to plan your wedding, your way. EVERYTHING YOU NEED, IN ONE PLACE: Guest List Keep everyone in one place. Track RSVPs, plus-ones, contact details, and dietary needs, and watch your headcount update as replies come in. Tables Design your seating with ease. Create tables, assign guests, and see at a glance exactly who's sitting where. Vendors Stay on top of every vendor. Save contacts, contracts, costs, and payment status for your venue, caterer, photographer, and everyone in between. Ledger Know where your money is going. Track every expense by category and always see what you've spent and what's left. Checklist Never miss a step. Follow a timeline of to-dos from "just engaged" to "I do," and check off each milestone as you go. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT Calm by design — a clean, beautiful interface built to reduce stress, not add to it. Truly private — your plans sync securely across your devices through your own iCloud. We can't see your data, and we never sell it. No ads, ever — no banners, no pop-ups, no one trying to sell you anything. Plan your way — solo or together with your partner. Simple Wedding Planner I Do While Simple Wedding Planner is free to use, you can upgrade to 'I Do' to unlock the full suite of wedding planning tools. Subscribe to monthly, annual, or purchase a lifetime license. Subscriptions will auto-renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least a day before each renewal date. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in Apple account settings. Simple Wedding Planner is a wedding planning and organization tool. It is not intended for financial, tax, legal, or any other professional advice or advisor service. It is not intended to create, form, or otherwise be involved in any relationship between users and other third parties. Terms of Use: https://blackforestcompany.com/tc-simple-wedding-planner/ Privacy Policy: https://blackforestcompany.com/privacy-policy-simple-wedding-planner/

Screenshots

Wedding Countdown4 screens
Simple Wedding Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Wedding Countdown at free against Simple Wedding Planner's freemium. Wedding Countdown also leads on ratings volume (42 vs 8). Simple Wedding Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, 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. Wedding Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Simple Wedding Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Wedding Countdown against 4.6 for Simple Wedding Planner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wedding Countdown has 42 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wedding Countdown ships an update weekly, Simple Wedding Planner every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Wedding Countdown versus Simple Wedding Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWedding CountdownSimple Wedding Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (42 ratings) — better4.6 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings42 — better8
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOne PlaceBlackforest LLC

Customer experience

Wedding Countdown

All ratings39 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Simple Wedding Planner

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wedding Countdown

One-time1
  • Until I Do Plus$3.99
3 purchases

Simple Wedding Planner

Subscriptions2
  • I Do - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • I Do - Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • I Do - Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Wedding Countdown free?
Wedding Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Wedding Planner free?
Simple Wedding Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wedding Countdown or Simple Wedding Planner?
Wedding Countdown is rated higher. Wedding Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Simple Wedding Planner averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do Wedding Countdown or Simple Wedding Planner have ads?
Neither Wedding Countdown nor Simple Wedding Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wedding Countdown or Simple Wedding Planner?
Wedding Countdown ships an update weekly, and Simple Wedding Planner every 2 days. Most recently, Wedding Countdown was updated on October 31, 2026 and Simple Wedding Planner on October 31, 2026.

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