Time & Ride vs Big Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time & Ride
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Time & Ride is a fast, focused way to track NJ Transit rail departures and plan your ride — nothing else. FAVORITE YOUR STATIONS Add the stations you use most to Home for one-tap access to their next departures, color-coded by line at a glance. LIVE DEPARTURES Real-time status, delays, and track assignments straight from NJ Transit's own data feed. Cancelled trains are clearly marked, never buried in a status label. LIVE ACTIVITIES Track a station's departures right from yousland — tap once to start, and updates keepflowing in the background. PLAN A TRIP Pick an origin, a destination, and a date t-transfer itinerary between two stations,ranked by departure time. FULL TRIP DETAIL Tap any departure for the complete stop-by-cific train. BROWSE BY LINE All 11 NJ Transit rail lines, with your favorite stations sorted to the top of each one. SERVICE ALERTS See active alerts for your stations right wg. TIME & RIDE PRO Everyone gets a free taste of Live Activity tracking and trip search. Time & Ride Pro removes those limits for unlimited use — $0.99/month or $5.99/year, the annual plan. Departures, favorites, andLines browsing stay free for everyone either way. No ads. No account required. Time & Ride is independently developed and has no affiliation with NJ Transit. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Big Day
Track important dates with a visually appealing countdown. See your upcoming events on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch without opening the app. Count down to future events or count up from past milestones.
- Home Screen widgets (all sizes)
- Lock Screen widgets
- Live Activities for real-time countdowns
- Count up or count down functionality
- Recurring events and weekday-only counting
- Customizable alerts and categories
- Apple Watch complications
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Count down to what matters. See it on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. Countdown turns any date into a live countdown you can actually see — no opening an app, no digging through a calendar. Your next trip, your wedding, your exam, your due date. Always one glance away. FREE, AND ACTUALLY FREE No ads. Not on the free tier, not ever. No banners, no video walls, no "watch this to unlock." WIDGETS THAT DO MORE • Home Screen widgets in every size — small, medium, large, and inline • Lock Screen widgets so you see it without unlocking • Live Activities — watch the final hours tick down in real time on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Interactive widgets — mark events done or snooze right from the Home Screen • Apple Watch complication showing your next event COUNT DOWN — OR COUNT UP Days until your holiday. Or days since you quit smoking, since the baby arrived, since you started. Both directions, same app. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Recurring events that reset themselves — birthdays, anniversaries, rent, monthly deadlines • Weekday-only counting for work deadlines (17 working days, not 24 calendar days) • Multiple alerts per event — a week out, a day out, an hour out • Categories with colors and icons — travel, family, work, health • Custom photo backgrounds from your library or our gallery • Choose exactly what shows: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds • Share a countdown to iMessage in one tap YOUR APPLE WATCH, INCLUDED Your countdowns sync to your Watch automatically — no iCloud account needed, no subscription, on the free tier. COUNTDOWN PRO — ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Unlimited events, iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, unlimited custom backgrounds, and all widget styles. Pay once. Keep it forever. Free tier includes 5 events, all widget sizes, Apple Watch sync, and zero ads. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your events stay on your device and in your own iCloud. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. EULA: Apple’s Standard License Agreement applies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Time & Ride at none against Big Day's 1. Time & Ride also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). Big Day's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Big Day sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Time & Ride asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time & Ride ships an update every 6 days, Big Day every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time & Ride | Big Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SANDEEP MOVVA | Damien Asseya |
In-app purchases
Time & Ride
No in-app purchases
Big Day
- Countdown Pro$5.99









