Await vs Countdown@
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Await
Easily track upcoming events with unlimited countdowns. View upcoming events on your Today widget and Apple Watch. Receive notifications and share events with friends.
- Unlimited event tracking
- Today widget
- Apple Watch extension
- Countdown notifications
- Event sharing
- Progress visualization
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The easiest way to track upcoming events you care about. Features: - Unlimited number of events. - Today widget showing the next event. - Apple Watch extension so you can track all your events right at your wrist. - Receive notifications when countdowns are ending. - Share events with your friends, even if they don't have the app installed. - Progress circles show at a glance how long you have already been waiting. - Beautiful fullscreen countdowns in landscape orientation.
Countdown@
Easily track important life events with stylish countdown timers. Create custom events like vacations, birthdays, and holidays. View upcoming events with a convenient widget and even count up from past milestones.
- Create custom event countdowns
- Count up from past events
- Event timeline with diary and notes
- Widget for important events
- Stylish event tracking
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Countdown@ is a super easy to use countdown timer for the important events in your life. Count down to your next event: Vacation, Birthday, Holiday, Party, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and more - in style! Features: • Create different types of events • Widget to view your most important events • Count up from past events • Timeline in every countdown event — diary and notes ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Countdown@ at Free against Await's $1.99. Countdown@ also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 8 months). Await's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Countdown@ is free to download; Await costs $1.99 up front. Countdown@ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Await asks for nothing beyond the download.
Countdown@ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown@ has 39K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Await's written reviews are positive against 37% of Countdown@'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Await ships an update every 8 months, Countdown@ every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Await | Countdown@ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (39K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews — better | 37.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 39K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thomas Eichmann | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Await
Countdown@
Bugs and requests
Await
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Countdown@
Reported bugs
3 issues- Countdown not updating correctly
- Widget not displaying as customized
- Inability to delete past events
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to set countdown as alarm
- Sync countdowns across devices
- More customization options for widget
- Allow multiple countdowns in widget
In-app purchases
Await
No in-app purchases
Countdown@
- Countdown Premium$4.99
