Comparison

Countdown & Count Up Timer vs TimeLeft

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

Head to head
About

Countdown & Count Up Timer

Easily track important dates with customizable countdowns and count-ups. Never miss an anniversary, event, or milestone with home screen widgets and timely notifications. Personalize your tracking with custom backgrounds and text.

Highlights
  • Unlimited event tracking
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Customizable notifications
  • iCloud backup and restore
  • Precise moment tracking
  • Custom backgrounds and text
  • Social sharing
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How long until the day you’re waiting for? How long has it been since a moment worth remembering? Countdown & Count Up Timer makes important dates easy to follow. Count down to something you’re looking forward to, or see how much time has passed since a meaningful day. Add a birthday, anniversary, vacation, wedding, concert, exam, deadline, due date, seasonal event or personal milestone and let the app keep track of the time for you. You can also add a date from the past to see how long it has been since an important moment. Track the time since an anniversary, the day you got married, the start of a personal goal or any date you want to remember. Whether you are counting down to the future or counting up from the past, your most important dates stay together in one simple place. Create as many events as you like and choose how you want to see the time: years, months, weeks, days or hours. PERFECT FOR • Birthdays and anniversaries • Weddings and vacations • Trips and holidays • Concerts and special events • Exams and important deadlines • Pregnancy due dates • Personal goals and milestones • Seasonal events and special occasions • Remembering how long it has been since an important day KEY FEATURES • Countdown to future dates See exactly how much time is left until something you are waiting for. • Count up from past dates Track the time that has passed since a memorable moment. • Unlimited events Create as many countdowns and count-ups as you need. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets Keep your most important events visible without opening the app. • Daily notifications Get a daily notification at the time you choose showing the remaining or elapsed time. • Exact date and time Choose a specific time when a simple day count is not enough. • Flexible time display View the result in years, months, weeks, days or hours. • Custom photo backgrounds Use your own photos to make birthdays, weddings, trips and anniversaries feel more personal. • Adjustable text Customize the color and position of the text to suit your background. • Recurring events Set birthdays, anniversaries and other repeating dates to come back automatically. • Easy organization Use tags and date sorting to keep your events easy to find. • iCloud backup and restore Keep a backup of your important events and restore them when needed. • Sharing and Dark Mode Share your events easily and use the app comfortably in dark environments. Some dates are exciting because they are getting closer. Others matter because of how much time has already passed. Keep both kinds of moments close, and check them whenever you want.

About

TimeLeft

Organize upcoming dates and visualize remaining time for important events. Create and manage a list of occasions like birthdays, trips, and anniversaries with real-time countdowns and timely reminders.

Highlights
  • Real-time event countdowns
  • Customizable reminders and notifications
  • Sortable event list
  • Quick date filters
  • Detailed event view
  • Event editing and updating
Features
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Some dates deserve better than a note buried in your calendar. TimeLeft turns the moments you are waiting for into live countdowns you can read at a glance — in the app and right on your Home Screen. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create a countdown in seconds: a name, an emoji, a date and a time • Watch the time left tick down in months, days, hours and minutes • Pin your most important event to a Home Screen widget • Switch between a compact list and a visual grid • Filter by All, Next 7 days or This month, and sort by closest or furthest away • Add notes to an event so the details travel with the date • Look back at everything that has already happened FOR EVERY KIND OF DATE Birthdays and anniversaries. Trips and holidays. Weddings and graduations. Concerts, exams, paydays, due dates, retirement, Christmas and New Year. Anything you are counting on. DAILY REMINDERS Turn reminders on and TimeLeft checks in once a day at noon, so nothing important quietly sneaks up on you. MAKE IT YOURS Pick an emoji for every event from a searchable picker. Set dates to repeat every year for the ones that come back around. Choose a light, dark or system theme. Use the app in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian or Simplified Chinese. NOTHING TO SET UP No account, no sign-up, no login. Your events stay on your device and the app works offline. Start counting down to what matters.

Screenshots

Countdown & Count Up Timer4 screens
TimeLeft3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: TimeLeft at none against Countdown & Count Up Timer's shown. TimeLeft also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Countdown & Count Up Timer's advantage is ratings volume (2.3K vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TimeLeft holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown & Count Up Timer has 2.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Countdown & Count Up Timer ships an update every 10 days, TimeLeft weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Countdown & Count Up Timer versus TimeLeft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCountdown & Count Up TimerTimeLeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYoji ShimobayashiGonzalo Caira Aguilar

Customer experience

Countdown & Count Up Timer

All ratings2,314 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive63.1%
Neutral12.2%
Negative24.7%

TimeLeft

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Countdown & Count Up Timer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Countdown display issues after updates
  • App crashes when trying to access settings
  • Widget functionality not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to exclude weekends from countdowns
  • Option to pause/resume countdowns
  • Customizable notification settings for each event
  • Sync across devices

TimeLeft

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Countdown & Count Up Timer

No in-app purchases

None

TimeLeft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Countdown & Count Up Timer free?
Countdown & Count Up Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimeLeft free?
TimeLeft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Countdown & Count Up Timer or TimeLeft?
TimeLeft is rated higher. Countdown & Count Up Timer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while TimeLeft averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Countdown & Count Up Timer or TimeLeft have ads?
Countdown & Count Up Timer shows ads; TimeLeft does not.
Which is updated more often, Countdown & Count Up Timer or TimeLeft?
Countdown & Count Up Timer ships an update every 10 days, and TimeLeft weekly. Most recently, Countdown & Count Up Timer was updated on September 29, 2026 and TimeLeft on September 19, 2026.

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