Days Until vs Countdown Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Days Until
This app helps you count down to important dates by allowing you to exclude weekends, holidays, and custom days off. You can choose to count only working days or all calendar days, with options for various units and visual customization.
- Skip weekends, holidays, and custom days off
- Count working days or calendar days
- Display countdowns in various units
- Customizable colors and icons
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Milestone reminders
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Count calendar days — or only the days that count. Days Until is the countdown that can skip weekends, US federal holidays and your own days off, so you see the working days that actually remain until retirement, your last day, the end of school, or any date you choose. Or count every day — it's your call, per event. COUNT ONLY THE DAYS THAT COUNT (PRO) Some countdowns shouldn't include every day. With Pro, a one-time purchase: • Skip weekends — see remaining workdays, not calendar days • Skip US federal holidays, computed automatically every year • Add custom skip dates — company closures, vacations, anything • Reminders — get notified at milestones like "5 working days left," at the time you choose • Photo backgrounds — your own picture behind any countdown and its widget COUNT THE DAYS YOUR WAY (FREE) • Track as many events as you like • Show each countdown in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes or seconds — whatever units you prefer • Give every event its own color and icon so it's recognizable at a glance • A detail screen with the big number, a progress bar, and calendar days vs. working days side by side • Home Screen widgets in three sizes and Lock Screen widgets — pick which countdown each one shows No subscriptions. No accounts. No ads. Your events stay on your device. Perfect for counting down to retirement, the last day of work, graduations, weddings, due dates, vacations, moves, product launches, PCS dates, and the end of anything you're ready to be done with.
Countdown Widget
Track important dates with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Set reminders, sync across devices, and add personal notes or photos to each event. Never lose track of your days with automatic backups and a history timeline.
- Multiple widget types and sizes
- Unlimited event tracking
- Count down to or up from dates
- Recurring event options
- Customizable reminders
- iCloud sync
- Data import/export
- Event history and timeline
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Days Until at 5.0 against Countdown Widget's 4.6. Days Until also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium). Countdown Widget's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and ratings volume (26 vs 7). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Days Until sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Countdown Widget sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Days Until holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 26 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Days Until ships an update every 3 days, Countdown Widget daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Days Until | Countdown Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.6 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aerial Aspect Media LLC | 可 吴 |
Customer experience
Days Until
Countdown Widget
In-app purchases
Days Until
- Countdown Pro$4.99
Countdown Widget
- Countdown Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Countdown Pro Yearly · Welcome$9.991 Year
- Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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- Countdown Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Countdown Pro Lifetime2 variants$14.99
- Countdown Pro Lifetime$19.99
- Countdown Pro Lifetime$20.99
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- Countdown Pro Lifetime$26.99
- Countdown Pro Lifetime$29.99
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