# Countdown ‎

> Countdown Widget & Timer

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id424216726](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id424216726)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id424216726`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sevenlogics, Inc.
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Rating:** 3.80 / 5 (11,418 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.7.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-20
- **First published:** 2011-04-19
- **Size:** 90 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/countdown/id424216726)
- **Website:** [https://www.sunflowr.com/](https://www.sunflowr.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.sunflowr.com/privacy/](https://www.sunflowr.com/privacy/)

## Description

Countdown Widget & Timer helps you count down to your next event—from vacations and concerts to birthdays and anniversaries. It offers widgets for iOS lock screen and home screen, flexible time units, and the ability to drag and position the countdown to display wherever you want. You can use your own photos as backgrounds and customize music, fonts, and colors for a personalized countdown experience.

With reminders, multiple countdowns, and the option to count up from past events, you can share live countdowns or screenshots with friends. Premium features unlock ad-free viewing, additional widgets, and a slideshow background mode.

## Rankings

- #18,622 — Overall
- #3 — countdown
- #42 — month

## Review summary

Reviewers generally praise the app’s clean layout and ease of setup for simple countdowns, and the concept of a countdown widget. However, they repeatedly criticise heavy monetization (premium/subscription required for widgets and most features), intrusive ads that disrupt use, and privacy concerns about data tracking. Widget reliability issues and trouble restoring purchases further frustrate users. Overall, the app works for basic countdowns but the free experience is limited and the business model is a major drawback.

### Pros

- Easy to set up and use with an intuitive layout.
- Clean, attractive countdown design.

### Cons

- Premium and subscription are required to access most features and the widget.
- Ads are intrusive and disruptive, including full-screen ads.
- Privacy concerns: prompts to track/share personal data and potential data collection.
- Widget reliability: often non-functional or blank unless you pay.
- Usability issues: editing and managing events can be confusing; trouble restoring purchases.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id424216726)