Countdown app with photos

Set any picture from your library, or take one with the camera, as a full-screen countdown card. The day count sits over your photo, so a trip counts down over the place and a birthday over a favourite face.

With the Depth effect, the day count sits behind the people and pets in your photo, like the clock on the Lock Screen. It works with the Classic and Headline styles on your cards and the event screen, and with Premium on share images and the Poster and Featured widgets. It is on for every photo; switch it off in Settings → Card style, or for one photo when you edit its event.

Tap the photo chip when you add or edit an event and choose Create image. Image Playground opens with the event's name and category already filled in, and the picture you keep becomes the background. Free, on an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence.

Pick a photo of a poster or an invitation from Create with AI and Kounts reads the name, the place and the date off it, then fills in the form for you. The photo stays on your device. Needs iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence.

Birthdays from Contacts brings in every birthday saved in your contacts at once, each with the person's own contact photo and the age they are turning. Birthday countdowns.

Each countdown keeps its own photo gallery. Add as many shots as you like and swipe through them full-screen. The collection grows as the day gets closer.

For birthdays and recurring events, photos are grouped by year, so each occasion builds up a little history you can scroll back through, with last year's party right beside this one.

Your event's photo can sit behind the day count on the Home and Lock Screen widgets, in several styles and sizes, a picture you glance at every day.

Save a countdown card as a high-resolution image to post or send, in story (9:16), square (1:1) and portrait (4:5) sizes, ready for Stories, a square post or a feed.

On a shared countdown, everyone you invite can add their own photos to one shared album, so the gallery fills up from every side.

The Yearly Recap closes on the Memories Wall: a full-screen mosaic of the year you just counted through, built from your own photos and cover art, one tile per event. Tap a tile to fold the wall away onto that event, or share the wall itself as a 9:16 image.

When a countdown you once waited for lands on today's date in an earlier year, it slides in at the top of Upcoming with its own cover art: “2 years ago · Tokyo trip”. Open it for the full memory, or count it down again in one tap.