FieldMove vs Days Countdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FieldMove
This app facilitates digital field mapping for geologists, enabling precise data capture on a map-centric interface. It supports offline map usage, includes tools for drawing geological features, and can record orientation data, notes, and photos. Export your collected data in various formats for further analysis.
- Map-centric digital field mapping
- Offline map support
- Drawing tools for geological features
- Digital compass and clinometer
- Geo-referenced notes and photos
- Geological symbol library
- Multiple data export formats
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FieldMove is a map-based digital field mapping app for geological data capture. The app is presented in a map-centric format for use on larger touchscreen tablets. When sufficient data has been collected, you can use the drawing tools that include a virtual cursor for precision drawing to create geological boundaries, fault traces and other linework on your basemap. It is also possible to create simple polygons to show the distribution of different rock types. FieldMove supports Mapbox™ online maps and can cache this extensive online map service to work offline in the field. In addition to handling online maps, geo-referenced basemaps in MBTile or GeoTIFF format can be imported and also are available offline when working in the field. The app allows you to use your tablet as a traditional hand-held bearing compass, as well as a digital compass clinometer for measuring and recording the orientation of planar and linear features in the field. Geo-referenced text notes, photographs and screenshots can also be captured and stored within the app. Also contained in FieldMove is a library of geological symbols that enables data to be plotted on a stereonet, which allows the user to carry out analysis based on their field observations and measurements. All data readings collected in the field and any linework digitized directly in FieldMove with the drawing tools are fully geo-referenced. This information is preserved when the project is exported in various formats for use in other applications. Exporting your project is a quick and simple process. Data can be exported in three different formats: Move™ (.mve), for direct import into Petex's Move software for model building and analysis, a CSV (.csv) file (comma-separated values, similar to an Excel spreadsheet), and as a Google Earth (.kmz) file. A more in-depth user guide and brochure is available here: https://www.petex.com/products/move-suite/digital-field-mapping/ FieldMove is a Petroleum Experts geological field mapping app designed for forward thinking geologists utilising digital data collection. -------------------- The use of GPS devices and tablets as navigation aids. Global Positioning System (GPS) devices are commonly used to aid navigation, having grown in popularity over the past decade. Over the last few years, this has extended to smartphones and digital compasses, which are often equipped with GPS functionality. GPS is a valuable aid to navigation during fieldwork, although it is important to keep safety at the forefront, and we draw your attention to the advice given by a number of mountaineering councils: “Everyone heading into the hills needs to learn how to read a map, and be able to navigate effectively with a paper map and traditional magnetic compass, especially in poor visibility” Know the hardware sensors in your device FieldMove relies on three sensors inside your device, a magnetometer, a gyroscope and an accelerometer. Together, these sensors can be programmed to measure the orientation of planar and linear features in the field. All three sensors are installed as standard in iPhones and iPads, but are not always present in other hardware devices. You should always check your device to make sure that all three sensors are present and that the compass and the clinometer are giving accurate readings before starting to collect data. You can choose to manually enter data if you do not trust the internal sensors, or if you are using a traditional hand-held compass clinometer. Petroleum Experts will accept no liability or loss, resulting from the use or misuse of this product. -------------------- We hope that you find these applications useful and we’d be delighted to hear from you if you have any comments or suggestions for further improving the functionality in FieldMove. For more information go to: www.petex.com. If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please email us at: edinburgh@petex.com
Days Countdown
Track upcoming and past important dates with this app. Save countdowns as images, share them on social media, and receive notifications on event days. Easily edit or delete events as needed.
- Countdown past events
- Countdown future events
- Save countdowns as images
- Share countdown images
- Edit and delete events
- Event day notifications
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Feel so exited when an important event is coming? Days Countdown helps countdown the important days in your life. App feature: - Countdown how many days a event has passed - Countdown how many days a event is coming in - Save the countdown page as image - Share the image to social media - Edit and delete the event - Notifications would pop up on the day of the event
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Days Countdown at 5.0 against FieldMove's 4.2. Days Countdown also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). FieldMove's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Days Countdown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FieldMove has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FieldMove ships an update every 4 months, Days Countdown every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FieldMove | Days Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Petroleum Experts Limited | Foodmatesss Limited |
Customer experience
FieldMove
Days Countdown
In-app purchases
FieldMove
No in-app purchases
Days Countdown
No in-app purchases








