Exam Countdown vs BugLens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exam Countdown
This app helps students, teachers, and schools keep track of important dates. It provides countdown timers for exams, tests, and coursework deadlines, with options for reminders and sharing progress with others. Users can organize their academic schedule and stay on top of their responsibilities.
- Countdown timers for exams and tests
- Unlimited exam countdowns
- Color-coded exams
- Icon customization
- Share countdowns with others
- Add notes to exams
- Basic and detailed notifications
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Exam Countdown is the beautifully simple countdown, planner and widget app for every exam that matters. Counting down since 2015, rated 4.7 stars from over 30,000 ratings. The original exam countdown app, used by students, teachers and schools in over 100 countries. Count down to the ones that count: matric prelims, trials and NSC finals, GCSE and A Level papers, IB, SQA Highers, university finals, coursework and homework deadlines, driving theory, music grades and every test in between. CALENDAR VIEW See your whole semester on a month grid, color coded, with every exam a tap away. LIVE COUNTDOWN WIDGETS A Home Screen widget that ticks every second, plus Next Exam, Next 4 Exams and Lock Screen widgets. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Live Activities put your next exam on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island as it approaches. MAKE IT YOURS Hundreds of icons, every color, categories to group your subjects, and notes on any exam. Free version: • Unlimited exam countdowns, all in one place • Count down in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds • Color code your exams • Choose from 400 icons • Add notes to any exam • Invite friends and family to count down with you • Notifications before every exam Premium version: • Ad free • The full widget collection, including the second by second Live Countdown • Live Activities on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Calendar View • Categories to group your subjects • Detailed alerts, with your choice of alert sound • Record and review your exam results • Sync across all your Apple devices • All 400 color icons and 70 colors Exam Countdown is free to download and use. Premium is available as a yearly subscription or as a one off lifetime purchase. Terms of Use - https://www.root38.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy - https://www.root38.com/privacy-policy/
BugLens
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Point your camera at a beetle, butterfly, spider or bee and BugLens tells you what it is. Take a photo or pick one from your library. BugLens identifies the creature with AI and gives you its name, a short profile and field notes. WATCH, DON'T TOUCH Every result comes with a clear safety note: whether the species is known to sting or bite, and when to keep well clear. AI identifications can be wrong, so BugLens errs on the side of caution. Never handle or approach a creature based on an app result. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Each new species goes into your collection with your photo and the date you found it. Locked slots hint at what is still out there waiting to be found. YOUR MAP OF DISCOVERIES Save a location and the sighting lands on your own map, exactly where you found it. Share it if you like: others only ever see an approximate area, about 200 m, never the exact spot. In the background, real insect records from the GBIF open-data network show where people have looked before you. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No e-mail, no password. BugLens creates an anonymous account for you automatically. Sign in with Apple is optional and only needed for the map. You can delete your account and every photo from inside the app. BUGLENS PRO Try 3 AI identifications for free. BugLens Pro unlocks unlimited identifications, full species profiles and field notes, an unlimited collection and your discovery history. Pro is offered as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.topappsoft.com/buglens/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.topappsoft.com/buglens/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: BugLens at none against Exam Countdown's shown. Exam Countdown's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price 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. Exam Countdown sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months and BugLens sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Exam Countdown | BugLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ROOT38 LIMITED | Top App Sp. z o.o. |
Bugs and requests
Exam Countdown
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues after device change
- Subscription not working as expected
- Loading screen freezes
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar view
- Sync with device calendar
- Customizable exam reminders
- Widget support
- More icons and color options
BugLens
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Exam Countdown
- Premium 3 Months$2.993 Months
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Premium Access1 Year trial$4.991 Year
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- Premium Yearly Subscription$5.491 Year
- Lifetime Premium$9.99
BugLens
- BugLens Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- BugLens Pro Yearly$22.991 Year









