Countdown Keeper vs SpeedTask
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Keeper
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Countdown answers one simple question: how long has it been since an important date in your life — or how long until it comes? Save the dates that shaped your story — your date of birth, your first child's birth, your wedding, your graduation, moving into your home, your first day at work — and Countdown tells you exactly how long it has been, in years, months and days, on a live counter that updates every second. For dates still ahead — your retirement, the end of your home loan, a contract's end — it shows exactly how long is left. No sign-up and no clutter: you open the app and see your counters. Every date flips from "how long until" to "how long since" on its own the moment it arrives, so your timeline stays honest without you touching a thing. Countdown speaks both calendars. Count any date in Gregorian or in the Hijri (Umm al-Qura) calendar, and choose the right calendar for each date individually. Have a date in the other calendar? Convert it in the Date converter and save it straight away — no need to switch the app's calendar. • See how long since an important date, or how long until one ahead • Live counters that update every second • Choose exactly which units to show — years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds • Both calendars: Gregorian and Hijri (Umm al-Qura), per date • Event Story: write the story behind any date and reveal it below its card with a tap • Monthly recurring dates like salary and rent, rolling forward automatically • Reminders before a date — at the time, a day before, or a week before • Repeat a reminder after 5 or 10 minutes, with "Remind again" from the reminder history • Give each date an emoji icon or your own photo, and pick a card colour • Several card styles, and pin your most important dates to the home screen • Built-in date tools: Hijri ↔ Gregorian converter, age calculator, date difference, add & subtract days, and a retirement estimator • Encrypted backup of all your data, restored whenever you need • Export and import your dates as a JSON file • Optional app lock with fingerprint or Face ID • 18 languages: English, Arabic, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Urdu, Bengali and Hindi — with full right-to-left support for Arabic and Urdu Countdown is more than a reminder app. It is a calm, living timeline of the dates that shaped your story — and the ones still ahead. Instead of counting the years in your head or digging through old papers, keep every important date in one simple place and always know, at a glance, how long it has been and how long is left. Start free and add up to 5 events. When you need more, you can purchase the full version to add more events and use Countdown beyond the free event limit. Countdown needs no account, works fully offline, and your data stays on your device.
SpeedTask
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■ It's not about willpower Open a habit app and you see a list. That's where the question "which one first?" starts. A screen full of unchecked items becomes a weight of its own. SpeedTask doesn't show you a list. It shows one card at a time. ■ Right if you did it, left to skip Just swipe the card in front of you. Right means done. Left means skip. There's nothing to think about, so it takes seconds. Skipping doesn't mean "not doing it." It means "ask me again later." Skipped cards come back the next time you open the app. Swiped the wrong way? Undo from the top left as many times as you need. ■ The real problem isn't logging. It's forgetting to open the app. So the home screen widget shows how many cards are left today. You can watch the stack get thinner. Log straight from the widget's buttons. No need to open the app. Notifications work the same way: they show what's left, and you can log right there. On days you're already done, no notification comes. ■ Start with up to 5 You can add up to 5 habits for free. "8 left" tends to feel like pressure before it feels like motivation. Finishing a few every day is what keeps you going. Want more? SpeedTask Plus lets you add up to 10. ■ Look back on what you've built - Calendar: colored dots show which habits you did each day - History: your streak and everything you've logged - Insights: completion rate by week, month, and all time. You choose your own daily goal A day doesn't reset to zero just because you didn't do everything. Any day you do at least one counts toward your streak. Busy days won't break your streak and make you want to quit. ■ SpeedTask Plus (subscription) Up to 10 habits, your own photos on cards and widgets, and card styles. Choose yearly or monthly. The yearly plan starts with a 1-week free trial. Cancel anytime. Renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://scrublystore37-afk.github.io/speedtask-legal/#terms-en ■ Privacy Your habit names and daily records are stored only on your device. They are never sent anywhere. No account needed. - No account - No ads - Nothing you type is ever sent
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Countdown Keeper at 3 against SpeedTask's 1. Countdown Keeper also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Countdown Keeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SpeedTask sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown Keeper ships an update weekly, SpeedTask every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Keeper | SpeedTask |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abdul Almm | SHIHO CHIHARA |
In-app purchases
Countdown Keeper
- Lifetime Access$0.99
SpeedTask
- SpeedTask Plus (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- SpeedTask Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- SpeedTask プラス$2.99
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