Thirty seconds with Kounts
Live countdowns, holiday themes, countdown packs and widgets: the whole app in one quick look.
Everything an event countdown should be
Rebuilt from the ground up for iOS 26 with a Liquid Glass design, Kounts turns every date into something worth looking at, on your iPhone, your iPad, your Mac and your wrist.
Countdowns for anything
Birthdays, trips, deadlines, concerts. Add a date, time and notes, attach a place with Apple Maps suggestions and a map preview, then watch the days tick away on a full-screen live countdown. An event can keep its own time zone, so a concert in Berlin at 20:00 counts down to 20:00 Berlin time.
Countdown packs
Follow a pack in Discover and its dates keep themselves right: game and film release days, your shows' next episodes, full moons, eclipses and meteor showers, public holidays in 22 countries, and six faith calendars. See the packs.
Holidays with a look of their own
All 25 holidays count down in their own colors: a gradient, drifting decorations and an accent that carries through the ring, the numerals and the date pill. Pick Christmas once and it looks like Christmas on your cards, shared images, widgets, Apple Watch and the Live Activity. Free for everyone, and a switch quiets any event you want calmer.
Templates that know your calendar
35 ready-made countdowns across Holidays, Milestones and Seasons, searchable by name, with whatever holiday is coming up next waiting at the top. Your language picks the name and your region picks the date: Dia dos Namorados in Brazil, Mothering Sunday in the UK, October Thanksgiving in Canada, and summer in December south of the equator.
Up Next, on every screen
Inside an event’s final 24 hours a mini bar slides in above the tab bar with the title and a live "4h 32m left" readout, wherever you are in the app. Tap it to open the event, or keep scrolling and it tucks itself away.
Multi-day events
A festival, a trip, a training course. Add an end date and the countdown runs to the start, then holds a live “Happening now · ends Thursday” state with a pulsing badge, a “Day 5 of 12” readout and widgets that flip at midnight, right through to the last day.
Milestones that count up
Some dates aren't over. Mark a past date as a Milestone and Kounts counts up from it: days smoke-free, years together, time since a big move, with a streak card and a gold ring filling toward your next anniversary.
Birthday countdowns
Add someone's date of birth and Kounts counts down to their next birthday every year, shows the age they're turning, and keeps a photo timeline back to the year they were born. Or bring in every birthday saved in your contacts in one go, each with the person's photo, kept up to date when a contact changes.
Photo memories
Give every event its own photo gallery. Birthdays and recurring events group their photos by year, so each celebration builds a history over time, and when an old countdown reaches its anniversary, On This Day slides it back to the top of Upcoming.
Your photos, with depth
Put your own photo behind a countdown and the day count can sit behind the people and pets in it, like the clock on the Lock Screen. No photo to hand? Take one with the camera, or make one with Apple Intelligence right from the event. On iOS 27, a photo of a poster or an invitation even becomes the countdown itself.
A Shared Space at home
One countdown library for the people you live with. Invite up to five people with a link and everyone sees the same events, while a switcher at the top of Events keeps your own plans separate. Your notes, reminder times and Important flags stay yours alone.
Shared events & albums
Rather share one event than a whole library? Send a link through Messages or Mail and up to 5 people follow the same live countdown, adding their own photos to one shared album.
Siri & Apple Intelligence
Ask Siri "when is Mum's birthday" and it finds the event by name, find countdowns in Spotlight, or describe an event in plain language and let Create with AI fill in the details for you.
Widgets & Live Activities
Eight Home Screen widgets, all free: a cinematic Poster, a photo Grid, a Year Ring, a split-flap Departure Board, a stripped-back Minimal and more, plus Lock Screen widgets. On iOS 27 four of them fill a whole page. Pin an event to the top of your list and it leads the list widgets too. On event day, a self-ticking final countdown lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island until the moment arrives.
Apple Watch app
A dedicated watch app with an Up Next list, live countdown rings, and four complication styles, synced to your iPhone in real time. On the day itself, the final countdown gets its own compact card in the Smart Stack.
Made for iPad, too
On iPad, a sidebar replaces the tab bar and a Home screen gives your next event a wide card with a live days, hours, minutes and seconds readout. Open an iPhone Duo and you get the same layout; turn any iPhone sideways and Kounts turns with it. Kounts on iPad.
Kounts on your Mac
A native Mac app that syncs over iCloud, with its own widgets, notifications, a menu bar countdown and the Shared Space. Press ⌘0 for Cinematic Focus and the whole window becomes your next countdown, artwork edge to edge, moving on by itself when the moment arrives. Kounts for Mac.
Recurring countdowns & reminders
Daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly events roll forward automatically, even repeating time-of-day countdowns like “bedtime at 11”, live to the minute on widgets and the Dynamic Island. Stack up to five reminders on one event, from a week out to the moment itself, and Important events ring a full-screen alarm even on silent.
Calendar, Timeline & Year Ring
See your countdowns on a month-grid Calendar, as colored dots or as a collage where every busy day fills with its event's photo and trips stretch across their days. Or use the timeline, where nearby events cluster and distant ones drift apart, with a circular Year Ring for the long game. Pull events in from Apple Calendar, or mirror your countdowns back into it.
Share beautiful cards
Export any countdown as a high-resolution image or an animated video, styled exactly like your card, sized for stories, square posts and group chats.
Private by design
Your events live on your device. No accounts, no tracking across apps, and permissions are only requested when you actually use a feature.
Countdowns that keep themselves right
Follow a pack and its dates arrive as countdowns. When one passes or moves, the pack puts the right date in its place: the next episode, the delayed release day, next year's holiday, the next full moon.
Browsing is free. Each pack is a one-time $1.99, all six are $3.99, and Premium includes every one. Pack countdowns don't count against the free 15, and they show in your widgets and on your Apple Watch like any other event. iPhone & iPad.
Make every countdown yours
Ten card styles, five fonts, ten hand-tuned gradient artworks with a subtle film-grain finish, a theme kit for every holiday, your own photos, five app accent colors and seventeen app icons.
Ten gradient artworks, tuned by hand
Twenty-five holidays, each with a look of its own
Start a holiday countdown and it arrives already dressed: its own gradient, its own drifting decorations and an accent that themes the ring, the numerals and the date pill, everywhere the event shows up. Free for everyone, and a Decorations switch quiets any event you want calmer.
Ten of the twenty-five, from Halloween to Eid al-Fitr. Swap in one of the ten gradients or your own photo and only the background changes: the decorations and the color stay.
Five fonts to make Kounts yours
Pick one in Settings and it follows your events everywhere: titles, day counts, rings, recaps, shared images and widgets.
An app icon for every mood, and every holiday
Settings → App Icon holds sixteen icons with Premium, next to the purple one everyone gets. Leave Seasonal on and Kounts puts on its Halloween icon a couple of weeks before Halloween, then Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year in turn, and your own icon comes back in between. On the Mac, the icon in the Dock changes too.

















Categories that fit your life
Personal, Work, Travel, Holidays, Fitness and Birthdays built in, plus your own custom categories with hand-picked colors and symbols.
Accent colors & appearance
Tint the whole app in Violet, Blue, Green, Red, or Dark Grey. Choose Light, Dark, System, or Dynamic, which follows the daylight.
Speaks your language
Switch instantly between thirteen languages, right inside the app. Widgets and the watch follow along.
English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
See Kounts in action
Straight from the app on iPhone and Apple Watch. Swipe through.
Latest updates
- An event can count down in its own time zone, free
- Up to five notes on an event, each with its own color
- On the Mac too in Kounts for Mac 1.3, with Pin to top and Create image
- On the day, a birthday message and card ready to send
- Edit the words, in any of the 13 languages
- Send it in Messages, WhatsApp or any other app, free
- Create an event's background with Apple Intelligence, free
- Take a photo for it with the camera, right from the event
- Pin one event to the top of your list and list widgets
Frequently asked questions
What is Kounts?
Kounts is a free event countdown app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. It counts down to (and up from) the moments that matter with beautiful full-screen cards, Home and Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities with a Dynamic Island countdown, countdown packs that keep their own dates right, Siri support, a dedicated Apple Watch app, and collaborative shared events.
Is there a Kounts app for iPad and Mac?
Yes, both. On iPad, Kounts swaps the tab bar for a sidebar and opens on a Home screen made for the big display, and the iPhone Duo gets the same layout when you open it. Kounts for Mac is a native Mac app with Mac widgets, notifications, a menu bar countdown and Cinematic Focus, which hands the whole window to your next countdown. It is all one App Store purchase, so Premium bought on iPhone unlocks the iPad and the Mac too, and with Premium your countdowns sync between them over iCloud.
What are countdown packs?
Packs are sets of ready-made countdowns you follow from the Discover tab on iPhone and iPad, and their dates keep themselves right. Video Games and Movies count down to release day, TV Shows to each show's next episode, Moon & Sky to full moons, eclipses and meteor showers, Public Holidays to the national holidays of 22 countries, and Faith & Traditions to dates from six religious and cultural calendars. Browsing is free, each pack is a one-time $1.99 (or $3.99 for all), Premium includes them all, and pack countdowns don't count against the free limit. More about packs.
Can my household share one set of countdowns?
Yes. A Shared Space is a second countdown library that up to five people share, each on their own Apple Account. Anyone can add, edit or tick something off and it appears on everybody's device, while a switcher at the top of Events keeps your personal countdowns separate. Joining is free and only creating a Shared Space needs Premium, so one subscription covers the household. Your notes, reminder times and Important flags stay private to you.
Does Kounts have holiday countdowns built in?
Yes. Kounts ships 25 holiday templates, from Christmas, Halloween and New Year's Eve to Diwali, Eid al-Fitr, Lunar New Year, Hanukkah, Carnival and Day of the Dead. Each one carries a theme of its own: a gradient, drifting decorations and an accent color that follow the event to your cards, shared images, widgets, Apple Watch and the Live Activity. The themes are free for everyone. Dates follow the country your device is set to, so Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's, Children's Day and Thanksgiving land on the right day wherever you live, and the seasons point the right way south of the equator.
Is Kounts free?
Yes. Kounts is free to download and its core countdown features stay fully functional with no ads. There's an optional Kounts Premium for advanced customization, available as a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Does Kounts have widgets and Live Activities?
Yes. Kounts has eight Home Screen widgets, all of them free: Countdown, Poster, Minimal, Up Next, Grid, Featured, Year Ring and Departure Board. On iOS 27 four of them come in a size that fills a whole page. There are Lock Screen widgets too, plus a self-ticking Live Activity and Dynamic Island countdown that updates on its own on event day.
Does Kounts work on Apple Watch?
Yes. Kounts includes a dedicated Apple Watch app with an Up Next list and four complication styles, so your next event is always on your wrist. On event day the final countdown also gets its own compact card in the Smart Stack.
Can Kounts count up from a past date as well as down to a future one?
Yes. Kounts can count down to upcoming events and count up from past dates, and it supports recurring events, birthday countdowns, reminders, and full-screen photo memories.
Can Kounts add birthdays from my contacts?
Yes. Birthdays from Contacts, in Settings, adds the birthdays already saved in your contacts in one go, each with the person's photo and the age they are turning. They stay up to date when a contact changes, and anything you edit in Kounts stays as you left it. It is free on iPhone and iPad, and on the free plan each person counts as one of your 15 countdowns.