CountOnly vs Day Counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CountOnly
Easily track important upcoming events with a simple and beautiful interface. Customize your countdowns with icons and colors, and receive timely notifications. Access your events quickly via widgets and on your smartwatch.
- Simple and straightforward design
- Progress tracking (%)
- Today Widget for quick access
- Countdown notifications
- Customizable icons and colors
- Apple Watch support
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CountOnly is a simple and gorgeous countdown app. Real simple. It's the perfect companion for everything you want to count down to in life, such as birthdays, wedding, anniversaries, holiday trips and even your retirement. When you start using CountOnly, you'll be suprised at how simple and easy it is to keep track of all your important and exciting events. And with CountOnly's beautiful interface, counting down to the remaining days becomes a delight. Features: - Simple & Straight-forward app - Progress (%): Easy to see the progress of your countdown - Today Widget: Quick access to your countdown items at notification center - Notification: Receive notification when your countdown is near - Icons & Colors: Tons of icons and hand-picked pastel colors to customize every single countdown - Apple Watch: View all your countdowns from your Apple Watch! CountOnly is built by passionate human beings. We'd love to know how we can make it better, so get in touch with us.
Day Counter
Track important moments with customizable countdowns for goals, birthdays, and holidays. Visualize progress with home screen widgets and an intuitive interface. Never miss a special event again.
- Create countdowns for events
- Track days remaining or passed
- Home screen widgets
- Clean and intuitive design
- Motivation for goals and milestones
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How many days until your next vacation? How long since you quit smoking? Day Counter keeps every important date in one simple, beautiful app — with home screen widgets so you never have to open the app to check. COUNT DOWN & COUNT UP • Count down to future events: birthdays, holidays, weddings, exams, retirement, pregnancy due dates, and more • Count up from past dates: track habits, sobriety, fitness streaks, anniversaries, or any milestone • Choose your display unit: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds — or show all units at once HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • Small widget: 1 event at a glance • Medium widget: 3 events • Large widget: 6 events • Turn widgets on or off per event from the edit screen • See your countdown without opening the app PERSONALIZE EVERY EVENT • Pick from a wide selection of colors and icons • Dark mode support • Clean, intuitive interface — no clutter, no learning curve ANNIVERSARY COUNTDOWN • Automatic anniversary tracking — see how many days until your next yearly milestone BACK UP & SYNC • Sign in with Apple or Google to save your dates in the cloud • Sync across iPhone and iPad • Export your records for backup ACCURATE DATE CALCULATIONS • Months and years change on the correct date — not days early like some other apps • Trusted by users worldwide for retirement, tax deadlines, garden planting schedules, and life events PRO — ONE PAYMENT, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Remove ads forever with a single purchase • No monthly fees, no auto-renewal, no surprises • Fair price compared to subscription-based countdown apps 33 LANGUAGES Fully localized in English, German, Turkish, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and 26 more languages. PERFECT FOR: • Vacation and holiday countdowns • Birthday and wedding reminders • Retirement day tracking • Pregnancy and baby milestones • School exams and graduation • Fitness goals and habit tracking • Tax deadlines and important appointments • Remembering loved ones and special anniversaries Privacy Policy: https://gokselpirnal.com/saydim_privacy_policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CountOnly at none against Day Counter's shown. CountOnly also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. CountOnly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Day Counter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for CountOnly against 4.7 for Day Counter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 262 and 107 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of CountOnly's written reviews are positive against 71% of Day Counter's.
CountOnly ships an update every 5 weeks, Day Counter every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CountOnly | Day Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (262 ratings) — better | 4.7 (107 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.8% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 262 — better | 107 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cotton.sg Pte. Ltd. | Goksel Pirnal |
Customer experience
CountOnly
Day Counter
In-app purchases
CountOnly
- Ads Removal$1.99
Day Counter
- PRO$3.99
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