Stay excited for your upcoming trips with a customizable countdown. Add your own photos, use smart packing lists, and share your anticipation with friends and family. Track multiple events and enjoy an ad-free experience.
Summarized from real user reviews of Countdown by Holiday Extras. Based on 64 reviews and a 4.7/5 average, it highlights the 19 positives and 132 negatives reviewers mention most about this Travel app.
5.0.1
August 26, 2026
NEW: Piñata Magic now understands even more of the moments you’re looking forward to, including work anniversaries, with smoother trip editing and thoughtful refinements throughout the app. Meet the all-new Countdown app — rebuilt from the ground up to make looking forward to something feel almost as good as being there. • A completely redesigned native iPhone experience with beautiful full-screen countdowns, Liquid Glass controls and automatic light and dark appearances. • Piñata Magic, powered by Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones. Describe a countdown in your own words and get an editable event, trip, flight and reminder plan created on-device. • Start with a screenshot. Add a booking image and Piñata Magic will pull out the useful details, then show you a clean summary instead of a wall of extracted text. • Smarter holiday setup with guided dates, airport search, live flight lookup and simple outbound and return selection. Predicted, potential-match and confirmed flights are always clearly labelled. • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with the full countdown, your chosen photo and the Piñata mark. • Flexible private reminders, including milestone, weekly, daily and custom schedules — plus intelligent schedule suggestions. • Social sharing made for Instagram, Facebook and Messages, with polished story, portrait and square layouts featuring your full countdown. • Better photo controls. Drag, zoom and position an image once, then perfect separate crops for the countdown and widget. • A brand-new birthday celebration: tap or shake the full-screen Piñata until it bursts into confetti and falling sweets. • Add a holiday to Holiday Extras and carry your dates and flight details with you, ready to add parking, airport hotels, lounges and more. • Your previous countdowns come with you, including past countdowns, so the moments you’ve already saved aren’t left behind. This is our biggest update ever. We can’t wait to see what you’re counting down to.
More122 issues
App won't open after update
App crashes on opening
9 requests
Automatically add holidays (Christmas, Halloween, New Year's Eve/Day)
Widgets update time remaining without opening app
This app helps you create and track countdowns to any event, such as holidays, birthdays, or anniversaries. It aims to build excitement and keep you organized by providing visual countdowns and smart features.
Key features include a home screen widget for easy viewing, an AI-powered smart packing checklist, custom backgrounds, the ability to count down to any event, track multiple events simultaneously, and set up suggested or recurring countdowns.
Yes, the app is free to use and offers an ad-free experience. There are no in-app purchases mentioned.
You can count down to virtually any event that makes you smile, including holidays like Christmas and New Year's, birthdays, anniversaries, or even personal goals and trips.
Yes, you can instantly share your countdowns across social media platforms like WhatsApp and Instagram, or directly with friends. This helps build shared excitement for upcoming events.
