Comparison

Birthday Reminder vs Countdown Widget

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

Head to head
About

Birthday Reminder

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Never miss another birthday or meaningful occasion. Birthday Reminder: Tracker makes it easy to organise important dates, see what’s coming next, and receive reminders before every celebration. KEY FEATURES • Track birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions • View clear countdowns for upcoming celebrations • Set reminders in advance • Import birthdays from your contacts • See upcoming occasions in one organised place • Add personal notes and gift ideas • Mark important people as favourites • Check upcoming birthdays from the Home Screen widget • Calculate upcoming ages automatically • No account required PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your birthday information stays on your device. Contact access is optional and only used when you choose to import someone. Plan ahead, remember the people who matter, and make every celebration meaningful.

About

Countdown Widget

Track important dates with customizable widgets. Set reminders, sync across devices, and add personal notes or photos to each event. Never lose track of your days again with automatic backups and event history.

Highlights
  • Multiple widget types
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Count down to or up from dates
  • Recurring event options
  • iCloud sync
  • Data import/export
  • Event history and backups
Features
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A countdown that never loses your days — and never holds its four widgets back. Add the day that matters, put it on your home screen, and watch it come closer. No limit on how many you keep, and nothing between you and the number. FOUR WIDGETS, FREE • Four widgets: one countdown, the next few in a list, a spotlight, or a tile for each • Every size of all four, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen • Unlimited events — there is no cap, and there never will be • Count down to a date, or count up from one • Recurring events: yearly, monthly, weekly, or every few days • Reminders on the day, and as far ahead as you want • iCloud sync, with no account to make • Import from a calendar, a spreadsheet, or another countdown app — and export any time • No ads, ever COUNT DOWN TO ANYTHING A wedding countdown, a vacation or trip countdown, a birthday or an anniversary. Christmas, New Year, Halloween and Thanksgiving. Exam day, graduation, retirement, a baby due date, a concert, a deadline, payday. Or count the days since a day that has already happened. YOUR DAYS, KEPT Most countdown apps lose your events at the worst moment — an update, a reinstall, a phone that died. This one takes a snapshot of everything on this device every single day, and always before anything risky. Thirty days of history, one tap to restore, and nothing ever leaves your phone. Days that have already passed are never deleted either: they collect into a timeline you can look back through, with the longest wait of each year written next to it. THE MOMENT ITSELF When a countdown reaches a milestone — a hundred days, a week, the morning of — the app opens on the number, full screen, and gives you a card worth sharing. THE BACK OF EVERY EVENT Tap an event and it turns over to a page of its own. Write a few lines, add photos, record a voice — the story of the day, kept with the day. It syncs with iCloud, goes into every backup, and shares as one picture. MADE TO LOOK LIKE YOURS Thirty-six ready-made events, from a birthday to a first day at work, each already set up with the right repeat and the right reminders. Two hundred drawn icons and the whole emoji keyboard. A hundred and fifty-nine full-screen backdrops — twenty-two of them photographs — a hundred and seven in Pro. COUNTDOWN PRO Pro unlocks the Pro backdrops, with a new drop every month, your own photos behind a countdown, Photo Roll — a widget that turns your event's own photos over behind the count, the Pro typefaces, the Lock Screen Live Activity, and inviting someone to count down with you. Whatever you unlock while subscribed stays yours for good — cancelling only stops the new ones arriving. Your countdowns, reminders and the four widgets work the same whether you subscribe or not. ——— Countdown Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Prices for the annual plan, which includes a 7-day free trial, and the monthly plan are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings at any time. A one-time Lifetime purchase is also available; it does not renew. Privacy Policy: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://dyljqq.github.io/countdown/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

Birthday Reminder4 screens
Countdown Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Birthday Reminder at none against Countdown Widget's 10. Countdown Widget's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Countdown Widget sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Birthday Reminder asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Birthday Reminder ships an update every 5 days, Countdown Widget daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Birthday Reminder versus Countdown Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBirthday ReminderCountdown Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—32 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPriyanka Biswal可 吴

In-app purchases

None

Birthday Reminder

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Countdown Widget

Subscriptions5
  • Countdown Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Countdown Pro Yearly · Welcome$6.991 Year
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime2 variants$14.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$19.99
  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$20.99
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  • Countdown Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Birthday Reminder free?
Birthday Reminder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Countdown Widget free?
Countdown Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Birthday Reminder or Countdown Widget have ads?
Neither Birthday Reminder nor Countdown Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Birthday Reminder or Countdown Widget?
Birthday Reminder ships an update every 5 days, and Countdown Widget daily. Most recently, Birthday Reminder was updated on October 31, 2026 and Countdown Widget on November 6, 2026.

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