# Birthday Countdown

> Birthday Reminder & Widget

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1452049360](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1452049360)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1452049360`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Find Appiness LLC
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (7,900 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-21
- **First published:** 2020-03-26
- **Size:** 70 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/birthday-countdown/id1452049360)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/93268760](https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/93268760)

## Description

Birthday Countdown is a free, easy-to-use countdown and reminder app. Import birthdays from Facebook, Contacts, or Calendar and keep track of important dates with countdowns and reminders. Premium features include home screen and lock screen widgets and an Apple Watch companion.

Create unlimited events, share countdowns with friends, and customize notifications for each birthday (on the day, 1 day before, or 1 week before). You can also import/export ICS files and personalize birthdays with emoji tags, all in dark mode.

## Rankings

- #20,034 — Overall
- #86 — countdown

## Review summary

Birthday Countdown is a lightweight, focused birthday reminder app. Pros noted are its simplicity, emoji customization per person, age tracking, Outlook calendar sync, a home-screen widget, and flexible reminder timing. Common concerns across reviews include an ad-heavy free version, monetization friction (widget purchases and subscriptions), unreliable notifications (often time-zone related), occasional data accuracy issues (birthdays shifting), and imperfect lock-screen/widget functionality. Overall, it's useful for casual use, but reliability and cost are the main drawbacks.

### Pros

- Simple, focused birthday reminders (stores only birthdays, not extraneous data).
- Emoji customization per person.
- Tracks ages and supports Outlook calendar sync.
- Home-screen widget for quick access.
- Flexible reminder timing (day before, week before, etc).

### Cons

- Ad-heavy free version with intrusive ads.
- Monetization friction: widget purchases and subscriptions; ongoing costs.
- Unreliable notifications, especially across time zones.
- Occasional data accuracy issues where birthdays shift or change.
- Lock-screen/widget functionality not reliably working.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1452049360)