Countdown - Widget & Reminders 4+

Reasonably good event timer. Free version gives “enough” functionality and the adverts aren’t too intrusive (obviously, they mostly appear when you want to do something quickly, but, that’s the price you pay for being a cheapskate and using the free version).

Haven’t tried to premium option.

Generally the app looks quite clean and is fairly simple to use, though there’s a few small issues with it that doesn’t look like they’re going to get fixed anytime soon.

For one, it doesn’t ask you permission to access your photos when you select “from gallery”. I’m pretty sure for iOS apps, you HAVE to ask the user’s permission to do that as right now it looks like by installing this app it already has full access.

Another thing, when you reorder your events by dragging them up and down, it you drag the bottom most event, the review tile (which is ALWAYS at the bottom of your list) will also move with it, until after 5-10 seconds where it fixes itself.

Another tiny thing, there are 3 buttons on the navbar, the events window, then the add event button and then the settings window. when you press ‘add event’ the active window icon also disappears. you’re still on the events window so this shouldn’t be getting changed when the pop up to add a new event is displayed.

Another thing is that most of the customise features are all locked behind the “premium” but since this app hasn’t been updated in a long time and there’s small bugs like i’ve described all over the app, I wouldn’t recommend anyone purchasing that.

Overall, it’s quite simple to use and fine for an app where you want you just want to see a clean list of events coming up. The lack of fixes for these small issues though bring it down however.

The app is super easy to use, the pictures it offers for events your wishing to create are very unique, stylish & very professional, you can also use your own which is great, the ability for your dates to be used as widgets on your Home Screen sold me, it’s amazing, the iPad doesn’t have its own app however the mobile version still works and the widgets still work on the iPad, although the sync feature doesn’t work, I’ve had to create my events twice and I keep getting asked why I cancelled my premium plan (which I haven’t) hopefully this is fixed.