Countdown vs EventSlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown
Easily track important dates and events with a beautifully designed countdown timer and calendar. Set unlimited countdowns, customize with icons and colors, and receive basic reminders. Share your upcoming events with friends and family.
- Unlimited event countdowns
- Count up or down to events
- Customizable icons and colors
- Add notes to events
- Basic notifications and reminders
- Event sharing
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Event Countdown is the beautifully simple countdown, calendar and widget app for the important days in your life. Counting down since 2015, rated 4.7 stars from over 130,000 ratings worldwide. The original Event Countdown app, used by over a million people every month. Start straight away with unlimited countdowns. No account or sign-up needed. Count down to the days that matter: Birthday, Holiday, Party, Christmas, Halloween, Wedding, Anniversary, Baby Due Date, Graduation, New Home, Match Day, Concert, Film Release, Retirement, Bucket List and many more. NEW: CALENDAR VIEW See every event on a beautiful month grid, with your events colour-coded below. Swipe between months, tap a day, open any countdown. LIVE COUNTDOWN WIDGETS A Home Screen widget that ticks every second, plus Next Event, multi-event, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Live Activities show your next event on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island as the moment approaches. MAKE IT YOURS, SHARE THE EXCITEMENT Hundreds of icons, every colour, repeats that show ages on birthdays. Then turn any countdown into a shareable video. Free version: - Unlimited event countdowns, all in one place - Next Event widget on your Home Screen - Count up or down in years, days, hours, minutes and seconds - Colour code events • choose from 450 icons - Share events with friends and family - Notes, notifications, and search Premium version: - Calendar View (NEW) - The full widget collection: Live Countdown, Lock Screen, StandBy, multi-event and choose-your-event widgets - Live Activities on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island - Ad free • Calendars • Detailed notifications - Sync events across all your Apple devices - Repeat events (with ages on birthdays and anniversaries) - 450 colour icons Event Countdown Premium is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-off lifetime purchase. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of Use - https://www.root38.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy - https://www.root38.com/privacy-policy/
EventSlayer
This app simplifies wedding planning with a unique journey-based approach, matching you with vendors, and providing budgeting tools and industry tips. It aims to make the process fun and rewarding, helping users plan their dream wedding like a professional.
- Journey-based wedding planning map
- Vendor matching technology
- Budgeting tools
- Wedding industry tips
- Gamified planning experience
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EventSlayer - Wedding planning made simple. A fun way to plan your wedding anywhere and anytime. EventSlayer’s journey based wedding planning app makes wedding planning simple and fun with our unique matching technology, better budgeting tools and tips along the way to help YOU plan YOUR wedding like a pro. * Why Journey Based? We want you to think about your wedding as a destination, not an over-complicated list of to-do’s. We think planning your wedding should be fun and rewarding, so we got rid of the lists and made a map for you to follow to get to your dream wedding. * Why Matching? Vendors are more than just their category. Each has a specialization, personality and unique offerings that makes them stand out from the crowd. We want to make it easy for you to find the exact vendor you are looking for, even if you didn’t know you were looking for them at first. * Why Tips and Budgeting Tools? Wedding planning is tough, we get that. We want to make you an expert by giving you the tips and tricks to planning your wedding like a pro. Wedding Industry information and a planning certificate is all that stands between you and a professional wedding planner. While we can’t help you with the certificate, we can provide you with industry information so you are prepared when talking with your soon-to-be vendors. Download now and get ready to SLAY your DAY with EventSlayer’s gamified wedding planning app! Link to our Privacy Policy https://event-slayer.com/privacy-policy/ Link to our Terms of Use https://event-slayer.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EventSlayer at none against Countdown's 6. EventSlayer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Countdown's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (24K vs 15). On price 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 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. EventSlayer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown has 24K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Countdown's written reviews are positive against 60% of EventSlayer's.
Countdown ships an update weekly, EventSlayer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown | EventSlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24K ratings) — better | 4.4 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 200 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ROOT38 LIMITED | EventSlayer LLC |
Customer experience
Countdown
EventSlayer
Bugs and requests
Countdown
Reported bugs
3 issues- Premium subscription issues after updates
- Inconsistent font sizing and layout
- Countdown accuracy problems for distant events
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar view integration
- Repeat/recurring event options
- More customization for notifications
- Ability to view past event details
- Improved handling of long-term countdowns
EventSlayer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Countdown
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium 3 Months7 Days trial$5.993 Months
- Premium1 Year trial$9.991 Year
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- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Yearly (50% Off)1 Year trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$49.99
EventSlayer
No in-app purchases
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