Countdown vs SiteStamp
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.
SiteStamp
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SiteStamp is a fully offline GPS field-evidence camera. The moment you tap the shutter, it burns the GPS coordinates, altitude, compass bearing, time, and project name directly into the photo's pixels — not added afterward, but composited at capture, so the image itself is a piece of archivable field evidence. Whether you're doing site inspections, surveying, insurance claims, property maintenance, or field documentation, one tap captures the location and timestamp with the photo — no more scribbling down "where and when was this taken." WHY SITESTAMP • What you shoot is what you get: coordinates, bearing and time are composited at capture • Truly offline: the app requests no network permission, so your photos and coordinates never leave your phone — verifiable in system settings • No subscription: a one-time purchase, unlike field cameras that charge monthly • Clean and fast: a tidy Material 3 interface with dark mode; open and shoot • Privacy first: no account, no ad SDKs, no data collection CORE FEATURES • Live info band: current GPS, altitude, bearing, time and accuracy (±m) right in the viewfinder • File photos by project or work order in a clean gallery • Multi-select to export PDF inspection reports and CSV ledgers • Share the stamped photos directly • Coordinates in decimal or degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS); altitude in meters or feet WHO IT'S FOR Field engineers and surveyors, insurance adjusters, property and facility maintenance, security and documentation work — anyone who needs photos tagged with location and time. The free version takes fully stamped photos. Unlock Pro for multiple projects, PDF and CSV export, DMS coordinates, and to remove the small on-photo tag.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Countdown at 4 against SiteStamp's 2. SiteStamp's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 SiteStamp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Countdown | SiteStamp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (162 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rob Sammons | tao wen |
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
SiteStamp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Countdown Pro$1.99
SiteStamp
- Unlock Pro$6.99
Questions
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