# Countdown & Count Up Timer

> Event Reminders and Widgets

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id919998681](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id919998681)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id919998681`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Yoji Shimobayashi
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (2,313 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.1.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-07
- **First published:** 2014-10-24
- **Size:** 41 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/countdown-count-up-timer/id919998681)
- **Website:** [https://shimobayashisystems.com/apps/countdown/](https://shimobayashisystems.com/apps/countdown/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://shimobayashisystems.com/privacy/](https://shimobayashisystems.com/privacy/)

## Description

**Countdown & Count Up Timer** helps you track the time until an upcoming event or the time elapsed since a meaningful date. Create unlimited countdowns and count-ups for birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, weddings, concerts, exams, deadlines, due dates, goals, and personal milestones.

Use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, daily notifications, recurring events, custom photo backgrounds, adjustable text, tags, date sorting, Dark Mode, and iCloud backup and restore. View time in years, months, weeks, days, or hours, and share important events with ease.

## Rankings

- #37,685 — Overall
- #12 — countdown

## Review summary

Users praise the app for its simplicity and ability to count up or down for various events, and many have used it for years with ongoing updates. However, repeated complaints center on unreliable widgets, intrusive ads and confusing pricing, bugs after updates, and photo widget glitches with camera-roll images. Overall, the tool remains valued for straightforward time-tracking, but widget reliability, ad burden, and update-related issues drive the most frustration.

### Pros

- Simple and easy-to-use interface.
- Versatile timer that supports both countdowns and countups for many kinds of events.
- Long-term usability with ongoing updates and support from the developer.
- Free to use (ad-supported) with an option to remove ads via a one-time payment.
- Useful for tracking time and planning (birthdays, holidays, sobriety, trips, etc.).

### Cons

- Widget reliability problems: not updating, loading issues, or failing to show the selected event.
- Ads-heavy experience and monetization concerns (banner ads, ad unlocks, and free-trial framing).
- Bugs and freezes introduced by updates (recent updates can freeze or ruin functionality).
- Photo widget integration issues when using camera roll images (glitches or blank displays).
- Inconsistent performance across updates and devices (glitches and reliability concerns persist).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id919998681)