Countdown vs Countdown Days
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 way to keep track of upcoming events, holidays and important dates. Features: • View Countdowns - Add, modify and view countdowns • Past Countdowns - See countdowns from the past including how many days since • Custom Photos - Choose from your photo library or directly from the Web using Flickr • Add to Siri - Easily retrieve any countdown on any device • Apple Watch - View all of your countdowns on your wrist • Widgets - Add widgets to view up to 3 countdowns at once • Lock Screen Widgets - See the next widget directly on the Lock Screen (iOS 16 or later only) • Share - Countdowns can be shared as an image to any social media platform • Notifications - Receive notifications before the countdown with custom settings for how many days before • Full OS Support - Dark Mode, Drag & Drop, Split Screen, VoiceOver and much more • Privacy - No data is ever stored outside of your device and with no tracking or analytics • Pay Once - No ads or subscriptions, just regular free updates with Countdown Pro Countdown Pro unlocks the ability to add more than one countdown, archived countdowns, full widget support, app icons and much more for one low cost in app purchase. Available for iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch. Also available for Mac included with your purchase.
Countdown Days
An elegant countdown utility with a fluid glass design to track important moments. Features interactive widgets, push notification reminders, and seamless device syncing. Built natively for speed and a stunning user experience.
- Glassmorphic UI elements
- Interactive Lock Screen widgets
- Home Screen widgets
- Push notification reminders
- Cross-device syncing
- Native SwiftUI development
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CountdownDays is an elegant, fluid-glass countdown utility designed to help you track your most meaningful moments. Built 100% natively in SwiftUI for blazing-fast execution, it features stunning glassmorphic UI elements, interactive Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets in multiple sizes, and account-wide push notification reminders. Seamlessly authenticated via Jonapus SSO, your countdowns sync flawlessly across all your devices so you never miss a milestone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Countdown Days at none against Countdown's 1. Countdown Days also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Countdown's advantage is ratings volume (162 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Countdown Days asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown Days holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 162 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Countdown ships an update fortnightly, Countdown Days every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | Countdown Days |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rob Sammons | 卫中 张 |
Customer experience
Countdown
Countdown Days
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
Countdown Days
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Pro$1.99
Countdown Days
No in-app purchases









