Countdown & Count Up Timer vs LangLang Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
LangLang Live
Record conversations on your iPhone or Apple Watch and get transcripts with key points linked to the original audio. Organize meetings by speaker and access recordings offline. Export your data for safekeeping.
- On-device recording and transcription
- Offline access to recordings
- Key points with audio links
- Speaker identification
- Export audio, transcripts, and voice profiles
- Mixed-language support (English, Mandarin, Cantonese)
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Leave the meeting with something you can return to. LangLang records conversations on your iPhone or Apple Watch and turns them into transcripts and key points you can check against the original audio. No account required. Apple Watch is optional. How it works • Start recording on your iPhone or Watch. Stop when you are done. • Read the transcript and return to the audio to check a detail. • Review key points and commitments with links to their source sentences. • Name people you recognize and revisit their past conversations. English, Mandarin and Cantonese For conversations in these languages, including mixed-language meetings. Background noise and overlapping speech can affect transcription and speaker labels. Check important names, dates and amounts against the recording. Your recordings stay under your control Recording, transcription and finding who promised what all work even in Airplane Mode. Processing is on-device by default; no LangLang server ever receives your conversations. No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs. Optional enhanced transcription needs an initial download from Apple. If you enable your own AI provider key, text is sent to that provider. Exporting or sharing sends the data you choose to your chosen destination. Take your history with you Export audio, transcripts and voice profiles in a backup file, then restore it on a fresh installation on your next iPhone. Keep backups somewhere private. Free and LangLang+ Free includes unlimited recording, transcription and playback, naming people, search across your recordings, complete key points for the first three conversations that produce them (then the top point of each), and export of all your data. LangLang+ adds complete key points and possible next steps for every conversation, each linked to the original words, plus memory across recordings: what is still open with someone, brought back when you meet again. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. A separate single-conversation purchase unlocks that conversation's complete key points; it does not include LangLang+. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged at purchase confirmation, or after an eligible trial ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Lifetime is a one-time purchase, not a renewing subscription. See the app for current prices and any trial eligibility. Let other participants know when you record, and follow local recording laws. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LangLang Live at 100% against Countdown & Count Up Timer's 63%. LangLang Live also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Countdown & Count Up Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 1). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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. LangLang Live sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Countdown & Count Up Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
LangLang Live 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. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Countdown & Count Up Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of LangLang Live's.
Countdown & Count Up Timer ships an update weekly, LangLang Live every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown & Count Up Timer | LangLang Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 868 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yoji Shimobayashi | Metag |
Customer experience
Countdown & Count Up Timer
LangLang Live
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
LangLang Live
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown & Count Up Timer
No in-app purchases
LangLang Live
- LangLang+ Monthly14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- LangLang+ Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Unlock This Meeting$2.99
- LangLang+ Lifetime$149.99
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