Comparison

Kid Age Decoder vs Age Counter

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

Head to head
About

Kid Age Decoder

Easily understand children's ages expressed in weeks or months. This tool translates complex timelines into plain English, making it simple to grasp developmental stages. Perfect for social gatherings and conversations with new parents.

Highlights
  • Converts weeks to months
  • Converts months to weeks
  • Translates age into plain English
  • Useful for social situations
  • Simple and intuitive interface
Features
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Do you have friends or family with kids or know someone who’s expecting? Do they throw out seemingly random measurements of time like ’17 weeks’ or ’20 months’ and expect you to understand what that means? Kid Age Decoder is here to help. Enter in any amount of weeks or months, hit ‘Decode It’, and it’ll tell you what you want to know in plain English. Handy at dinners, baby showers, parties, or basically any situation where a new parent is talking to you. You don’t have to live in confusion and frustration any longer thanks to Kid Age Decoder.

About

Age Counter

Track birthdays for friends, family, and pets with detailed age calculations in days, weeks, months, and seconds. Receive timely push notifications for upcoming celebrations and automatically discover zodiac signs and daily horoscopes.

Highlights
  • Detailed age calculation (days, weeks, months, seconds)
  • Birthday reminders via push notification
  • iCloud synchronization for data backup
  • Import contacts from iOS
  • Automatic zodiac sign detection
  • Daily horoscope updates
Features
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Every birthday, age, and special moment at a glance. Age Counter is your personal birthday calendar for friends, family, and pets. In one clear list, instantly see who has a birthday coming up, how old the people you care about are today, and which special day is next. Tap any entry for the full story: an exact age in years, months, weeks, days, and even seconds. It is a delightful way to make every birthday feel a little more special. YOUR HIGHLIGHTS • Keep birthdays for friends, family, and pets in one place • View precise ages in years, months, weeks, days, and seconds • Get birthday reminders so you never miss an important day • See upcoming birthdays at a glance with the Home Screen widget • Import birthdays from your iOS contacts with one tap • Respectfully record a loved one's or pet's passing date; birthday reminders stop automatically • Sync your data securely across Apple devices with iCloud • Automatically discover the zodiac sign for every birthday, with its element, quality and matching signs • Reach milestones together: 1,000 days, 100 weeks, a half birthday — each with its own reminder • Share a birthday card in one tap: “Mia is 1,000 days old today” • See what a birthday means elsewhere: the Chinese zodiac animal with its element, the weekday's colour in Thailand and its guardian animal in Myanmar • Show birth dates in a second calendar — Hijri, Chinese lunar, Buddhist, Hebrew, Persian or Indian — and celebrate a birthday by it Whether it is your best friend's birthday, a family milestone, or your pet's special day, Age Counter makes it easy to stay close to the people and animals that matter most. Enable iCloud in Settings to keep your data up to date across your devices. Allow notifications to receive timely birthday reminders.

Screenshots

Kid Age Decoder3 screens
Age Counter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kid Age Decoder at none against Age Counter's 3. Kid Age Decoder also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Age Counter's advantage is ratings volume (861 vs 2). On price 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. Age Counter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Kid Age Decoder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kid Age Decoder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Age Counter has 861 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Kid Age Decoder versus Age Counter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKid Age DecoderAge Counter
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (861 ratings)
Positive reviews—73.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2861 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB16 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTaber BuhlTheo Schuetz

Customer experience

Kid Age Decoder

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Age Counter

All ratings861 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews136 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative24.3%

Bugs and requests

Kid Age Decoder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Age Counter

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Birthdays randomly changing or disappearing
  • App crashing when trying to edit entries
  • Horoscope feature not working as expected
  • Unable to pick future years for birthdays

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add folders or categories for birthdays
  • Include a widget for quick access
  • Allow editing of birth dates and times
  • Implement an Islamic calendar option

In-app purchases

None

Kid Age Decoder

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Age Counter

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Posters in print size$2.99
  • Unlimited Birthdays$3.99

Questions

Is Kid Age Decoder free?
Kid Age Decoder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Age Counter free?
Age Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kid Age Decoder or Age Counter?
Kid Age Decoder is rated higher. Kid Age Decoder averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Age Counter averages 4.7 from 861 ratings.
Do Kid Age Decoder or Age Counter have ads?
Age Counter shows ads; Kid Age Decoder does not.

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