What's new in Kounts 2

The headline features of the Kounts 2 era — built for iOS 26, and growing with every update.

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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.

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Photo memories

Give every event its own photo gallery. Birthdays and recurring events group photos by year, so each celebration keeps its own memories and builds a history over time.

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Repeating daily countdowns

Count down to the same time every day — bedtime, leaving work — on weekdays, weekends or your own days. It rolls forward automatically and ticks down live on widgets and in the Dynamic Island.

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Shared events & albums

Share a countdown with up to 5 people. Everyone follows the same live countdown and adds their own photos to one shared album — just send a link through Messages, Mail, or any app.

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Calendar view

A month-grid Calendar mode lays your events out with a colored dot on every day that has something planned. Tap a day to see what's on, then tap through to the event.

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Siri & Apple Intelligence

Ask Siri how long until your next event, find countdowns in Spotlight, or describe an event in plain language and let Create with AI fill in the title, date, category and location.

Release history

Version by version, newest first.

Version 2.0.8

Latest

Redesigned event screen

  • Opening an event now leads with its photo as a full-screen poster, with the countdown and date over the top.
  • Notes, lists, links and photo memories are gathered into one tidy card with tabs, each showing a count.
  • A new Memories tab lays an event's photos out in a grid, grouped by year for birthdays and recurring events.
  • To-do lists get a progress bar in the event's category color, and adding another list is always one tap away.

Version 2.0.7

Notes, lists & links

  • Keep everything about an event in one place — notes, to-do lists, and links.
  • Add as many checklists as you need, like Packing or Places to visit, and tick things off as you go.
  • Paste a link and Kounts pulls in its title and picture so it shows as a neat, tappable card.
  • A tidier ••• menu brings edit details, notes, sharing, mute and delete into one clean card.

Version 2.0.6

App icon badge & Control Center

  • A new app icon badge counts down the days to your next event, or shows how many events are coming up.
  • Add a Kounts control to Control Center, your Lock Screen, or the Action Button to jump straight to your next countdown.

Version 2.0.5

Sharing fix

  • Fixed an issue where inviting someone to a shared event could fail to create a link. Invites now generate reliably through Messages, Mail, and other apps.

Version 2.0.3

Quick add

  • Long-press the Kounts icon and tap New event to jump straight into creating a countdown, without opening the app first.

Version 2.0.2

Share in any size

  • Share countdowns as perfectly-sized images for Instagram Stories (9:16), square posts (1:1), and 4:5 posts — no cropping or resizing.
  • Share images now save as smaller files, and a progress-ring rendering warning was fixed.

Version 2.0.1

Reviews & analytics

  • Added Apple's native rating prompt at a natural moment, plus a manual Rate Kounts button in Settings → About.
  • Expanded privacy-safe product analytics. No personal data, event titles, notes, locations, or other free text is ever collected.

Version 2.0

The all-new Kounts, rebuilt for iOS 26

  • Complete redesign with a Liquid Glass interface built for iOS 26, with smooth zoom transitions and morphing chips.
  • 5 countdown card styles: Classic, Ticket, Orbit, Headline, and Day Dots.
  • All-new Apple Watch app with an Up Next list, 4 complication styles, and real-time sync.
  • Live Activities with a self-ticking Dynamic Island countdown on event day.
  • Lock Screen widget accessories plus 4 Home Screen widgets, each deep-linking to its event.
  • Timeline and Year Ring views for long-range planning, with spacing proportional to wait time.
  • Apple Calendar sync, an Apple Maps location picker, and 10 gradient backgrounds with photo support.
  • Film-grain textures, a Dynamic appearance mode, and selectable accent colors.
  • Categories with 5 built-ins plus up to 5 custom ones, and search & filter by title, location, notes, or status.
  • In-app language switching across 13 languages.
  • Introducing Kounts Premium for advanced customization — the free tier stays fully functional.

Version 1.0.1

  • Fixed an issue where some widgets opened the wrong event when tapped.
  • Enhanced image rendering throughout the app and in widgets for sharper, more vibrant visuals.
  • Polished Event Reminders for more reliable notifications.
  • Added an in-app Feedback form so you can send us your thoughts and suggestions directly.

Version 1.0

App launch

  • Event creation with image, categories, location and reminders.
  • Up to 5 custom categories.
  • 10 different backgrounds to choose from.
  • Share event images.
  • 4 custom widgets.
  • Multi-language support.

Always getting better

Download Kounts free on the App Store and get every new feature as it ships.

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