Countdown Widget with Emoji2026.8 - App Store

SjdkfsjdklfCount down to the moments that matter, with the emoji that captures them perfectly.

Pick a date. Set an emoji. Watch your countdown on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy display, and Apple Watch.

No other countdown app lets you express every event with emoji. From birthdays to vacations to weddings, every countdown looks like the moment it represents.

A COUNTDOWN FOR EVERY OCCASION

Events & Birthdays
Track days until birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, baby showers, and the personal milestones that matter most. Set a birthday once and it reschedules automatically every year.

Holidays & Seasons
Count down to Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Easter, New Year’s, and every seasonal moment in between. Holiday countdowns roll over automatically year after year.

Weddings & Anniversaries
From save the date to the big day, watch your wedding countdown tick down day by day. Couples use Emoji Countdown to share progress, plan ahead, and savor the anticipation.

Vacations & Trips
Counting days until your next holiday, whether it’s a beach trip, a summer break, or a long weekend? Pair the trip with an emoji and feel the excitement build every time you glance at your phone.

Retirement & Life Milestones
Counting down to retirement, your last day of work, a house move, or a new chapter? Big life changes deserve their own widget. Pin them to your Home Screen and reclaim a little anticipation.

Daily Reminders
Use Emoji Countdown as a visual reminder for deadlines, fitness goals, exam dates, and weekly recurring events. Your countdown list works like a calendar, only easier to glance at and harder to forget.

FEATURES

. Free Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets so you can see every countdown at a glance, no subscription required
. Apple Watch app for checking countdowns from your wrist
. Calendar import: one tap pulls birthdays, holidays, and deadlines straight from your iOS Calendar
. Any emoji, any color, so every countdown matches the moment it represents
. Widget customization with colors, gradients, blur effects, borders, and themes so every widget looks exactly the way you want
. Repeating events: set a birthday or holiday once and it rolls over automatically each year
. Dark Mode support
. iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
. No ads, no clutter, just your countdowns

FAQ

Is Emoji Countdown free?
Yes. Free to download, and the Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets are included.

Can I make a wedding, birthday, or holiday countdown?
Yes. Emoji Countdown works for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, Christmas, Halloween, vacations, retirement, and anything else worth waiting for.

Does it work on Apple Watch?
Yes. The native Apple Watch app lets you check every countdown from your wrist.

Can I add countdowns to my Home Screen and Lock Screen?
Yes. Add a widget to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or StandBy display and your countdown stays visible at a glance.

Can I import events from my calendar?
Yes. One tap pulls birthdays, holidays, and deadlines straight from your iOS Calendar.

Will my countdowns sync across my devices?
Yes. iCloud keeps everything in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

Can I customize how the widget looks?
Yes. Pick any emoji and any color, then choose from gradients, blur effects, borders, and themes to make every widget look exactly the way you want.

Do birthdays and holidays repeat every year?
Yes. Set a recurring event once and Emoji Countdown rolls it over automatically each year.

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Version History Ready for iPhone Duo

Open up your iPhone Duo and your countdowns spread out to fill the big screen: three columns when it's lying flat, and two in book mode, one either side of the fold. Fold and unfold as much as you like. The cards glide into their new places, and the line joining them stays with them all the way.

Also in this update:

- If a purchase or restore fails, you now get a message saying what went wrong instead of nothing at all. And if there's nothing to restore, it tells you so.
- The Month Progress edge ring now hugs your widget's rounded corners exactly.
- Turning a charging iPhone on its side no longer takes over the app with a full-screen countdown that kept the screen awake. For a bedside countdown, add one of the widgets to iOS StandBy instead.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2026.8 1d ago ## Countdown suggestions from your calendar

Open Import from Calendar and Apple Intelligence reads the year ahead, then suggests up to five countdowns worth keeping, each with an emoji picked to match. Underneath, your whole calendar is listed in the same groups as the main screen, with emoji guessed on your device, and anything you already have a countdown for is marked so you can't add it twice. One search covers both. Needs Pro, iOS 27 and an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Only titles and dates are sent to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Notes, locations and guests never leave your phone.

## Just tell Siri

Countdowns are now proper events as far as Siri and Apple Intelligence are concerned, which means you can talk to them normally. Five to try:

- "Hey Siri, create an event called Dad's Birthday on 25 December"
- "Hey Siri, when is Dad's Birthday?"
- "Hey Siri, move Dad's Birthday to 26 December"
- "Hey Siri, delete the Dad's Birthday event"
- "Hey Siri, find a countdown in Emoji Countdown"

There's more to it: Create, Update and Delete Event have joined the Shortcuts actions, Spotlight now understands your countdowns as events, Siri can work out which countdown you mean from whatever is on your screen, the app answers to "ECD" and "Countdown with Emoji" as well as its own name, and the original phrases (next countdown, time until, list all, add and open) carry on exactly as before.

## A new way to see your countdowns

The list has been redesigned around a timeline. Your countdowns run down a single line with a dot for each one, grouped under This Week, Next Week, This Month and so on, and a NEXT UP hero at the top shows whatever is closest. On iPad they flow down and across in columns like a river, joined by thin links, and the whole thing animates as you resize the window or fold into Split View. Countdowns now tick over while you are looking at them, midnight included.

## Scroll back in time

Scrolling up from today now goes backwards, through Last Week, Last Month, Last Quarter, Last Year and Earlier. A repeating countdown shows its most recent time around, so a birthday shows last year. A Today button brings you home whenever you have wandered off. Needs Pro.

## Search your countdowns

There's a search button in the bottom bar. Tap it and filter by name, or by what the emoji actually is, so "cake" finds the countdown you never got round to naming, "gift" finds the present and "italy" finds the flag. Siri and Spotlight can start the same search for you.

## Smaller things

- A widget can now be set to always show whatever is next, rather than sitting on a countdown that has already passed. Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget, and choose Next event at the top of the list.
- The Time Progress widget no longer cuts long month names short.
- Fixed a crash that could happen at launch when the app and its widgets woke up at the same moment.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2026.7 Sep 14 ## Dates are fixed on non-Gregorian calendars

If your device calendar is set to Buddhist, Islamic, Persian, Japanese, Hebrew or Chinese, countdowns you added in the last update could disappear from the list, come back as tens of thousands of days ago, or jump hundreds of years into the past when you opened and saved them. Widgets went blank or counted to the wrong day for the same reason.

Dates are now read and written the same way whatever calendar your device is set to, and countdowns that were already knocked out of shape are repaired for you the first time you open the app.

Thanks to everyone who reported this.

Lewis 2026.6 Sep 9 ## Sync fixes
We made a server side change a few weeks ago which fixed syncing for a lot of people.

We also fixed an issue where a countdown you deleted on one device could occasionally reappear later.

## Widgets keep counting once the day arrives
When a countdown you had chosen for a widget passed, the widget fell back to a placeholder. Now it keeps going and shows how long ago the event was.

## Stability fixes
We fixed some crashes! Thanks to everyone who reported them. 2026.5 Sep 3 ## Siri & Shortcuts
Your countdowns now work hands-free. Ask Siri to open a countdown, find events straight from Spotlight search, and build your own automations with the new Shortcuts actions.

## Count down in weeks or months (Pro)
Each countdown can now show its time remaining in days, weeks or months — or pick Auto and it'll switch to the friendliest unit as the big day gets closer.

##New month progress widget
See how much of the month, quarter or year is left at a glance, with a clean week-by-week progress bar.

## All-day events, fixed across time zones
All-day events now stay locked to the right day wherever you travel — no more dates drifting when you cross a time zone.

## A fresh coat of paint
We polished the countdown list and gave the welcome screen a brighter, higher-resolution makeover. 2026.4 Jul 13 Squashed a couple of small bugs.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2026.3 May 31 New

* Onboarding flow - first-time users are now walked through adding their birthday, picking from popular events, and enabling notifications.

Fixed
* Widget backgrounds now correctly respect the background setting you chose in the customise screen, both in the widget preview and on your home screen.
* Widget stability - resolved an issue that could cause widgets not to update

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2026.2 May 28 We’ve updated the app for Liquid Glass!

We also fixed a bug where the selected emoji sometimes gets reset.

You can expect more regular updates in 2026.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2026.1 Apr 5 Emoji Countdown is now 100% free for all users. 2024.3 05/27/2024 Squashed a bug around how often the widget updates for events happening at a specific time.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2024.2 02/21/2024 Fixed calendar import in iOS 17. Thanks to everyone who reported it :) 2024.1 01/17/2024 *** iOS 17 Standby Mode Support ***

Also squashed a few bugs. Sorry bugs.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2023.1 09/18/2023 New widgets!

I’d love any and all feedback that you have to make the app better:

- Tap the ? icon on Toolbar
- Tap Contact Us

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Mary 2022.4 09/10/2022 You can now pick what emoji’s show in the widget!

Here’s how:
- Long press on your widget
- Tap “Choose” on the emoji row

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Mary 2022.3 07/28/2022 Fixed an issue where the selected emoji would sometimes appear twice which caused it not to save.

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Mary 2022.2 07/09/2022 We fixed some of the most common bugs in the app. If you spot any more please let us know!

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Emma 2022.1 03/23/2022 We've been counting down to this release for a while now. We hope you enjoy it!

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Emma 2021.7 09/20/2021 Fixed a bug where widget might not respect theme mode override.

Various UI/UX enhancements

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Emma 2021.6 08/14/2021 Fixed a bug where the widget might not respect a change to dark mode.

Thanks as always,

Lewis 2021.5 07/22/2021 Add a border to your widgets!

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Tanin 2021.4 02/03/2021 Small fixes and improvements

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Tanin 2021.3 01/26/2021 DING DING! Notifications!

Choose a custom time for when to be reminded about your countdown events.

Also, you asked, we delivered: There is now an option to make a one time upgrade instead of subscription for the pro features.

Thanks as always,

Lewis & Tanin 2021.2 01/22/2021 Fixed a bug where the widget might not update without opening the app. 2021.1 01/11/2021 We squashed a few bugs in the widget, thanks to everyone who was in touch. 2020.9 01/05/2021 Did you know that Christmas happens every year? Emoji Countdown now supports repeating events :)

Happy holidays!

Lewis & Tanin 2020.8 12/20/2020