Comparison

Strata Countdown Widget vs Countdowns

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

Head to head
About

Strata Countdown Widget

Visually track important upcoming events directly on your home screen. Create unlimited countdowns with customizable colors and backgrounds, choosing to count down by days or to the exact hour, minute, and second.

Highlights
  • Unlimited countdowns to any date
  • Optional time precision (days, hours, minutes, seconds)
  • Home screen widget support
  • Pin specific countdowns or auto-show soonest
  • Customizable accent colors and backgrounds
  • 100% on-device processing, no tracking
Features
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Strata is a simple, beautiful way to count down to the moments that matter, and put them right on your home screen. Create a countdown for any date: a trip, a birthday, an anniversary, a deadline, a launch. Choose whether to count whole days, or down to the hour, minute, and second. Give each countdown its own accent color and a solid-color or photo background. The Strata home screen widget shows your next big moment at a glance, pin a specific countdown, or let it automatically show the soonest one. FEATURES • Unlimited countdowns to any date • Optional time precision: days, or days / hours / minutes / seconds • Home screen widget (small and medium) • Pin a countdown to the widget, or auto-show the soonest • Per-countdown accent colors • Solid-color or photo backgrounds • Rock-inspired themes • 100% on device, no account, no tracking No sign-up. No ads. Your data never leaves your phone.

About

Countdowns

Easily track important upcoming events like birthdays, trips, and deadlines. This app offers a clean interface with no ads or subscriptions, allowing you to focus on what matters. Set reminders and view events directly from your home screen.

Highlights
  • Track any event or date
  • Support for recurring events
  • Customizable reminders
  • Event archiving
  • Home screen widgets
  • Clutter-free interface
Features
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Track the moments that matter — birthdays, trips, concerts, deadlines, anniversaries, and everything in between. No clutter. No noise. Just your events, beautifully laid out with the time remaining until each one arrives. Features Any event, any date — track whatever's meaningful to you Recurring events — birthdays and anniversaries automatically reset Reminders — get notified as your events approach Archive — completed events move out of the way, not out of memory Widgets — glance at your upcoming events right from your home screen Most countdown apps are free until they aren't — locked behind subscriptions, interrupted by ads, or limited to a handful of events. Countdowns is different. Everything is included, for everyone, for free. No ads. No subscriptions. No limits. Just countdowns.

Screenshots

Strata Countdown Widget2 screens
Countdowns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Countdowns at 5.0 against Strata Countdown Widget's 4.0. Strata Countdown Widget's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Countdowns holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Strata Countdown Widget versus Countdowns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrata Countdown WidgetCountdowns
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDacite Dev LLCJOSEPH ALLEN VELEZ

In-app purchases

None

Strata Countdown Widget

No in-app purchases

None

Countdowns

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strata Countdown Widget free?
Strata Countdown Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdowns free?
Countdowns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Strata Countdown Widget or Countdowns?
Countdowns is rated higher. Strata Countdown Widget averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Countdowns averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Strata Countdown Widget or Countdowns have ads?
Neither Strata Countdown Widget nor Countdowns shows ads.

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