Days Until vs Nigh
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Days Until
Visually track important dates with customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. Set up countdowns for events, deadlines, or anniversaries and receive timely reminders. Share your excitement with friends through links or shareable images.
- Home, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets
- Customizable countdowns with emoji and color
- Count in days, weeks, or working days
- Repeat events daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly
- Reminders before events
- Shareable countdown links and images
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The days you're waiting for, right where you look. DAYS turns birthdays, trips, launches and deadlines into beautiful widgets that count down on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. Add a countdown in seconds: pick a date, an emoji or symbol and a color. That's it. The widget keeps counting on its own. WIDGETS THAT FEEL AT HOME • Home Screen widgets in every size, including a poster-style large widget • Lock Screen widgets: round, rectangular and inline • An Upcoming list widget for all your next events, filtered by pin or tag • StandBy on your nightstand, plus tinted and clear Home Screen styles • A live timer for anything happening in the next 24 hours MADE TO BE GLANCED AT • Count in days, weeks or working days • Past events can keep counting up ("days since") • Repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly; events roll over by themselves • Reminders before the big day • Pin, tag, search and archive SHARE THE EXCITEMENT • Send a countdown as a link, friends add it in one tap • Share any countdown as a poster image BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD • Redesigned for iOS 26 • iPad sidebar, keyboard shortcuts and multiple windows • Ask Siri how many days are left, or find any countdown in Spotlight • A Control Center button to add a countdown from anywhere • Free iCloud sync across your devices • No account, no ads, no tracking DAYS PREMIUM DAYS is free with 2 countdowns, the small Home Screen widget and the round Lock Screen widget. DAYS Premium unlocks: • Unlimited countdowns • Every widget: all sizes, the Upcoming list, Lock Screen and StandBy Choose Monthly, or Lifetime with a single payment. The monthly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://getdays.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://getdays.app/privacy Questions or ideas? hello@boring-apps.dev
Nigh
Track upcoming events with live countdowns to the second, displayed on your Home and Lock Screens. Set reminders and organize your special days, from birthdays to holidays, with customizable widgets and iCloud sync.
- Live countdowns to the second
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Repeating event support
- Customizable reminders
- Calendar view
- Past event archive
- iCloud sync
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Count down to the days that matter: birthdays, vacations, weddings, holidays, exams, concerts and every big day in between. Nigh shows how many days are left until each event, live down to the second, and puts it right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with clean, readable widgets. WHAT YOU GET • Days until anything: days, hours, minutes and seconds, ticking live • Countdown widgets for the Home Screen: your next event at a glance • Lock Screen widgets (Pro) • Repeating events: yearly, monthly or every N days, weeks, months or years, so birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own • Reminders on the day, an hour, a day or a week before • Calendar view: tap any day to see what is coming • Archive of past events with how many days ago they happened • Import birthdays from Contacts (Pro) • Pastel card colors and your own emoji for every event • iCloud sync between your iPhones, light and dark mode COUNT DOWN TO Birthday • Vacation and trips • Wedding • Christmas and New Year • Anniversary • Baby due date • Exams and the end of school • Concerts and games • Retirement • Any date you are waiting for FREE Up to 3 events, the small widget, day-of reminders and iCloud sync. Nigh PRO: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Unlimited events, medium and Lock Screen widgets, extra reminders, all card colors and birthday import. Buy once, use it on all your devices, works with Family Sharing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no account. Your events stay on your device and in your own iCloud. Questions or ideas: mxm.ai.dev@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Nigh at daily against Days Until's every 5 days. Nigh also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Nigh sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Days Until against 5.0 for Nigh. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Days Until ships an update every 5 days, Nigh daily. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Days Until | Nigh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boring Apps | Maksim Valynets |
Customer experience
Days Until
Nigh
In-app purchases
Days Until
- Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Lifetime$5.99
Nigh
- Nigh Pro$0.99
- Nigh Pro$3.99









