Comparison

Count Widget vs Happened

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

Head to head
About

Count Widget

Customize your device's Home screen and Today view with custom widgets to manually count events or items. Easily increment, decrement, or reset counters with customizable names and appearances. Supports iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets and Dark Mode.

Highlights
  • Customizable Home Screen Widgets
  • Today View Widgets
  • Manual Event Counting
  • Increment/Decrement Counters
  • Customizable Widget Names
  • Dark Mode Support
Features
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Thanks to this application (and the other Widget apps from PacoLabs), you can now customize the Home screen and the Today view of your device, by adding custom widgets for some specific purposes. From anywhere in your device, you'll have access to your own information and actions. Each Count widget allows to manually count the various events or the things of your choice. The values of your counters can be incremented, decremented and also reset by touching the dedicated buttons. A custom name can be displayed and the look can be customized. Those Widgets are compatible with the new iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets. The application is really easy to use and is adapted to the fresh look of your device. Dark mode of iOS13 is supported. In Today view: You can add as many widgets as you want and they will be displayed in up to 3 different lists. Those same lists will be available in the Today view and in the application (although it is possible, if you want, to hide some widgets in the Today view). To avoid overloading the Today view, when too many widgets are displayed, an intuitive control will allow you to navigate from one widget to another. Even if the main purpose of the app is to view the widgets in the Today view, it can also be very handy to view them directly in the application (a long press on a widget in the Today view will open it directly in the main application).

About

Happened

Easily log life events with customizable tags and analyze them using various metrics. Track symptoms, hobbies, or any personal occurrence with a simple tap and visualize your data over time. The app prioritizes your privacy, storing data locally or in your iCloud.

Highlights
  • One-tap event logging
  • Four tag types: Valueless, Quantified, Balance, Binary
  • Timeline divided into five parts of the day
  • Drag and drop tag management
  • 10 types of visual metrics
  • Customizable time ranges for analytics
  • CloudKit data storage for privacy
Features
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This app was made for personal use, but it turned out too good to hide from the App Store. Log events happening in your life with one simple tap. Whether it’s symptoms, birdwatching, superstitions, you name it. Collect data and analyze it with metrics. Taxonomy The app supports four types of tags: - Valueless: Just to log events that happened. - Quantified: Each event has a numeric value. Users can also add a measurement unit. - Balance: Events have a visual gauge in the range of –1 to 1. Suitable for cases such as “better or worse than the baseline”. - Binary: Events have a true or false value, representing the outcome of an event. Timeline To speed up the creation and management of events, the day is divided into five parts. Tapping on a tag creates an event in the current part of today. Drag & drop tags to add events to any part of any day. Management Tags are categorized into groups, each with its own color. Add, edit and move your tags without losing associated events. Analytics The app offers 10 types of metrics to visually represent data, including counters, min/avg/max calculators, pie charts, linear graphs, and more. Each tag type has a specific set of metrics. Each metric can be limited by a time range: last week or the last one, three, six, or twelve months. Convenience - Gestures: swipe left and right on the timeline to navigate between days. Double-tap on the timeline returns to today’s view. - Swiping right on the Tag Groups stripe reveals a sandwich glyph (three horizontal lines). Dragging it vertically changes the height of the area with tags. - Change the order of Tag Groups and Metrics by holding and dragging them in the corresponding sections. - The plus glyph in the tag area on the home screen allows you to quickly add a new tag to the selected group. Privacy All your data is stored using the CloudKit framework provided by Apple. This means it’s either stored locally on the device or in your iCloud account. For encryption, opt into Advanced Data Protection in your iCloud settings (availability may vary by region). In any case, the developer DOES NOT have access to user data. The app DOES NOT use any analytics tools, so feel free to log your sensitive data. It stays only with you and no one else.

Screenshots

Count Widget4 screens
Happened4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Count Widget at 60% against Happened's 0%. Count Widget also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and device support (3 vs 1). Happened's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Happened is free to download; Count Widget costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Count Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Count Widget's written reviews are positive against 0% of Happened's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Count Widget ships an update every 6 months, Happened monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 26, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Count Widget versus Happened: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount WidgetHappened
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (7 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancis BonninPavel Shlyapnikov

Customer experience

Count Widget

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Happened

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Count Widget

No in-app purchases

None

Happened

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Count Widget free?
Count Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Happened free?
Happened is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Count Widget or Happened?
Count Widget is rated higher. Count Widget averages 4.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Happened averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Count Widget or Happened have ads?
Neither Count Widget nor Happened shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Count Widget or Happened?
Count Widget ships an update every 6 months, and Happened monthly. Most recently, Count Widget was updated on July 26, 2026 and Happened on September 18, 2026.

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