CountOnly vs Countdown°
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.
Countdown°
Easily track important dates and events with customizable reminders and notifications. Organize your schedules, share them with others, and utilize widgets for quick access. Offers advanced features like iCloud backup and a date calculator.
- Sort events
- Share events
- Custom categories
- Repeat event cycles
- Customize reminders
- Daily event alerts
- iCloud backup
- Date calculator
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“Countdown” is an app to remind you with your important schedules and events everyday. This is best countdown app available in the AppStore and is optimized for iOS14, with blur effects, vector images, and various features. Basic Functions: 1. Sort your events 2. Share your events 7. Custom categories 5. Repeat event cycles 4. Customize reminders 6. Main daily event alerts 3. Customize date settings 8. Display completion events on the icon. Special Functions: 1. iCloud backup 2. Date calculator (Swipe left from the main screen) 3. Use as a widget 4. Custom themes 5. Supports 3D Touch 6. Unlock using Touch ID 7. Pattern lock protection 8. Past event notifications 9. Lunar calendar settings (available only for Chinese Version) 10. Changeable date format (300 or 9M 25D) 11. Supports widget themes 12. Custom background images 13. One day pass the target function. 14. iOS calendar events import and export.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CountOnly at none against Countdown°'s shown. Countdown°'s advantage is ratings volume (24K vs 261). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 Countdown° 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 4.8 for Countdown°. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown° has 24K ratings behind it against 261, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of CountOnly's written reviews are positive against 83% of Countdown°'s.
CountOnly ships an update every 5 weeks, Countdown° every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CountOnly | Countdown° |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (261 ratings) | 4.8 (24K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.8% of reviews | 82.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 261 | 24K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| 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 | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cotton.sg Pte. Ltd. | rongsheng li |
Customer experience
CountOnly
Countdown°
Bugs and requests
CountOnly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown°
Reported bugs
2 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not showing the next upcoming event
Requested features
5 requests- Add option to customize widget background color
- Implement repeat functionality for custom intervals (e.g., every 2 weeks)
- Integrate with Google Calendar and other calendar apps
- Add ability to display countdown in hours/minutes for events less than 1 day away
- Implement a delete multiple events option
In-app purchases
CountOnly
- Ads Removal$1.99
Countdown°
- Pro Version$0.99
