Countdown vs Decision Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track upcoming events, holidays, and important dates with custom photos and notifications. View your countdowns on your Apple Watch, Mac, or Lock Screen widgets. Share events and enjoy a private, ad-free experience with optional Pro features.
- Add, modify, and view countdowns
- Customizable photos from library or web
- Siri integration for easy access
- Apple Watch and Mac support
- Widgets for home and lock screens
- Shareable countdown images
- Customizable event notifications
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Countdown is an easy, beautiful way to keep track of upcoming events, holidays and important dates. Features: • Upcoming Countdowns — Add, edit and view all your important events • Natural-Language Creation — Quickly create countdowns using phrases such as “Holiday next Friday at 6pm” • Past Countdowns — Revisit previous events and see how much time has passed • Repeat and Duplicate — Reuse archived countdowns for annual or similar events • Custom Images — Choose a photo, search the web, generate an image with Image Playground or select a colour • Siri Shortcuts — Create, find and interact with countdowns using Siri and the Shortcuts app • Apple Watch — View your countdowns directly from your wrist • Customisable Widgets — Display your latest countdowns or choose a specific countdown • Lock Screen Widgets — Keep your next countdown visible from the Lock Screen • Archive Widgets — View previous countdowns and memorable events • Control Centre — Open Countdown quickly from Control Centre • Flexible Reminders — Receive notifications at the event time, one day, one week or one month beforehand • Sharing — Share beautifully generated countdown images with friends or on social media • Full OS Support — Designed for Dark Mode, rotation, resizable layouts, Split View, Drag and Drop, VoiceOver and the latest Apple devices • Private by Design — Your countdowns are stored on your devices and synced securely through your personal iCloud account, with no tracking or analytics • Pay Once — No advertisements or subscriptions, with regular free updates for Countdown Pro Countdown Pro unlocks unlimited countdowns, archived countdowns, full widget support, alternative app icons and much more with one affordable in-app purchase. Available for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Also available on Mac with your purchase.
Decision Maker
This utility app helps users make difficult choices by creating custom decision wheels. Input your options, spin the wheel, and get an instant answer to simplify decision-making for everyday dilemmas.
- Create custom decision wheels
- Input custom options
- User-friendly interface
- Simplify difficult choices
- Preset decision bundles
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Get rid of decision-making stress with us! The decision-maker app is an awesome easy tool that will help you to make difficult choices and avoid quarrels with your friends. Can't choose which food order for your party? How to spend an evening? Which movie you would watch? Just use preset decision bundles or input your options to easily get an answer! Benefits: ◦ Make difficult decisions easily! ◦ Input your custom options in decision wheel sections ◦ Just relax and let us help you with your choice ◦ User-friendly interface Privacy Policy: https://pocketninja.dev/pp/ Terms Of Use: https://pocketninja.dev/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countdown at 70% against Decision Maker's 33%. Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). Decision Maker's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Decision Maker sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 162 and 69 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 33% of Decision Maker's.
Countdown ships an update fortnightly, Decision Maker every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Countdown | Decision Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) — better | 4.2 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rob Sammons | POKET APPS, OOO |
Customer experience
Countdown
Decision Maker
Bugs and requests
Countdown
Reported bugs
9 issues- 🐛 Cannot add more than two countdowns
- 🐛 Widget colors "washing out"
- 🐛 Incorrect countdowns
- 🐛 Countdown data disappeared
- 🐛 Keyboard shows up and won't go away
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- 🐛 Cannot add new photo from Camera Roll when editing
- 🐛 Photos too zoomed in and blurry
- 🐛 Widget not showing minutes/seconds
- 🐛 Event title shows, but no countdown
Requested features
13 requests- Recurring event option
- Ability to crop images
- Import calendar events
- Integration with Google/iCloud calendars
- Option to show more than one goal in a large widget
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- Pop-up alerts at event start
- Pin to menu bar or screen
- Use past countdowns to see days passed
- Option to display time or just days
- Year ticker
- Jump ahead by years in date selector
- Show full pictures within the app
- Support for Apple Watch
Decision Maker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Pro$1.99
Decision Maker
- VIP Membership$2.997 Days
- VIP Membership3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- VIP Membership3 Days trial$9.997 Days
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- VIP Membership$9.997 Days
- Annual Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Year
Questions
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