Reviews of Countdown Widget

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List of user reviews and ratings for Countdown Widget

Total ratings

3.80 (Rating count: 117,693)

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Review summary

Overall sentiment: The app offers a solid, free countdown experience with multiple countdowns and image customization, plus a home-screen widget. However, users frequently report heavy ads and frustrating attempts to remove them via premium. Widget reliability is a major pain point—updates often don’t reflect the countdown, or the widget fails to display. Privacy concerns also appear, with complaints about data sharing prompts and location data requests. There are various UI/UX and stability issues (background image editing problems, done button accessibility, occasional UI glitches). Despite these, many users still praise its core countdown features and customization.

Pros

Free and easy to use.
Supports multiple countdowns with customization (names, units).
Add your own photos to countdowns.
Includes a home screen widget for quick viewing.

Cons

Excessive ads in the free version, with frustrating premium upgrade expectations and occasional ad-related charges.
Widget reliability issues: updates not matching countdown, widget failing to display, or showing a black banner.
Privacy concerns: prompts to share data and location data requests.
Bugs and UI glitches affecting background editing, navigation, and general stability.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.00

All time rating average: 3.80

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32% (71)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-08-08	Je*****	2026 still love the app
2026 still love the app
2026-08-07	Te*****	only photo option is not a good one
only photo option is not a good one
2026-08-07	Dr*****	insufferable terrible app. who in the name of GOD will pay anything for such menial services? this app will make it unbearable to use it without payment going so far as to turn off active countdowns to make you return and look at an add. waste of my time, and yours if you should be so unlucky. all the good reviews are no doubt bots. should ve illegal to use such methods.
insufferable terrible app. who in the name of GOD will pay anything for such menial services? this app will make it unbearable to use it without payment going so far as to turn off active countdowns to make you return and look at an add. waste of my time, and yours if you should be so unlucky. all the good reviews are no doubt bots. should ve illegal to use such methods.
2026-08-04	As*****	the widget constantly freezes or dissappears completely, I have to open the app everyday to reset it.
the widget constantly freezes or dissappears completely, I have to open the app everyday to reset it.
2026-08-01	mo*****	keeps not wanting to load after ads such a shame since I've had it for ages and worked up until this year!
keeps not wanting to load after ads such a shame since I've had it for ages and worked up until this year!
2026-07-31	G *****	I used it for years and on a couple different phones, but then the ads took over (in the last year). The video game ads were impossible to get through without it making you play the demo game (I didn't) or wait until the icon came (and went, on a timer) for the Play Store. It was a pain, so I finally uninstalled it.
I used it for years and on a couple different phones, but then the ads took over (in the last year). The video game ads were impossible to get through without it making you play the demo game (I didn't) or wait until the icon came (and went, on a timer) for the Play Store. It was a pain, so I finally uninstalled it.
2026-07-31	Cl*****	I love it. it's nice to have the widget, but it doesn't update on my screen. I have to open the app to get the screen to update.
I love it. it's nice to have the widget, but it doesn't update on my screen. I have to open the app to get the screen to update.
2026-07-29	En*****	customer support abandoned my complaint email after asking me what model my phone is. I reached out to customer service support via email because after the update I suddenly cannot open the app from my Vivo phone, at first they responded that they can't find my issue then they asked me for my phone model, I replied but they did not reply anymore. Literally abandoning me without resolving my issue. I even went to the extent of installing the app from my mom's non Vivo phone and sending the info.
customer support abandoned my complaint email after asking me what model my phone is. I reached out to customer service support via email because after the update I suddenly cannot open the app from my Vivo phone, at first they responded that they can't find my issue then they asked me for my phone model, I replied but they did not reply anymore. Literally abandoning me without resolving my issue. I even went to the extent of installing the app from my mom's non Vivo phone and sending the info.
2026-07-28	Em*****	I'm going to uninstall this app after but it seems really good. it's got an accurate numbers and it's really good honestly and you get to change the background to what you want. you get to put the vent you're waiting for and I haven't learned anything else about this app but to me it seems really good. really awesome just very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very. very. very very. very very very very very woof woof very. very very very very very very very good ve
I'm going to uninstall this app after but it seems really good. it's got an accurate numbers and it's really good honestly and you get to change the background to what you want. you get to put the vent you're waiting for and I haven't learned anything else about this app but to me it seems really good. really awesome just very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very. very. very very. very very very very very woof woof very. very very very very very very very good ve
2026-07-19	Cy*****	Easy to use
Easy to use