Countdown by Holiday Extras vs RyokoLife

Make the wait feel like part of the adventure. Turn every holiday, birthday, wedding, festival and big day into a beautiful live countdown — with photos, widgets, reminders, social sharing and smarter trip planning built in. COUNT DOWN TO ANYTHING See the days, hours, minutes and seconds tick away in a beautifully simple, full-screen countdown. Keep every moment together in a grid of photo cards, then swipe between upcoming countdowns or revisit the good times in Past. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a favourite photo, position and crop it perfectly for the countdown and its widget, or pick one of our colourful backgrounds. Light and dark appearances follow your iPhone automatically. CREATE WITH PIÑATA MAGIC On supported iPhones, Piñata Magic uses Apple Intelligence on your device to make setup feel effortless. Tell Piñata what you’re looking forward to in your own words, or start with a screenshot of a booking. It can suggest the event, dates, trip details, flights and a useful reminder schedule — and everything stays editable before you create it. PLAN HOLIDAYS FASTER The guided holiday flow keeps dates, airports and flights clear from start to finish. Search real flights, choose a simple outbound and return journey, and see whether each result is a prediction, a potential match from your screenshot or a confirmed flight. KEEP THE EXCITEMENT CLOSE Add beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets so the next big moment is always in sight. Choose milestone, weekly, daily or custom reminders, scheduled privately on your iPhone, and let the app move naturally from counting down to “On holiday now” and “Welcome home”. SHARE THE COUNTDOWN Turn your countdown and photo into an eye-catching social post. Share a story, portrait post or square image through Instagram, Facebook, Messages and your other favourite apps — complete with days, hours, minutes and seconds, not just the number of days. SMASH THE PIÑATA When a birthday reaches zero, the celebration takes over the whole screen. Tap or shake the Piñata until it bursts open, then watch the confetti and sweets tumble out. It’s the most fun you can have waiting for a birthday. READY FOR HOLIDAY EXTRAS Add your holiday to Holiday Extras without retyping the dates and flight details. Open the trip in the Holiday Extras app when you’re ready to keep everything together and add airport parking, hotels, lounges and more. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your countdowns, photos and reminder schedules are stored on your device. Piñata Magic processes your request on-device using Apple Intelligence. You can create and enjoy countdowns without connecting a Holiday Extras account. Whatever you’re looking forward to, make every day before it count.

RyokoLife turns trip planning from a chore into a conversation. Just tell Roamy, your AI travel assistant, where you want to go — in any language — and get a complete, day-by-day itinerary in seconds. No forms, no fifty open tabs, no spreadsheet. PLAN WITH AI - Describe your trip in plain language and Roamy builds a full itinerary, timed and mapped out for you - Keep chatting to refine anything — swap a museum for a hike, push back your start time, add a day — Roamy updates the plan on the spot - Set your preferences once (budget, pace, transport mode, occasion, travel dates, group size) and every suggestion adapts to them - Like, comment on, delete, or ask Roamy to replace any activity - Every stop is plotted on an interactive map, with commute times between activities calculated automatically PLAN TOGETHER - Invite friends and family to a trip with one link — everyone can chat with Roamy, edit the plan, and watch changes appear live - Assign roles (owner, editor, viewer) to control who can change what - A packing checklist and a documents panel keep tickets, reservations, and to-dos attached to the trip itself DISCOVER - Browse hour-by-hour guides written by other travelers, or published straight from real RyokoLife trips - Save guides for later, or import one directly into your own itinerary as a starting point - Explore Weekends — curated short-trip ideas by city for when you just need to get away - Read travel tips and destination stories in the Blogs section - Find vetted extras in Essentials — eSIMs, travel insurance, airport transfers, tours, and luggage storage STAY IN THE LOOP - Push notifications for trip invites, comments, and new messages, so your group never misses an update - Sign in with Google or Apple in one tap RyokoLife is free to use, with no credit card required. Whether you're planning a weekend getaway or a three-week trip across a continent, RyokoLife and Roamy handle the busywork so you can focus on the trip itself.