# Courtside Countdown — Countdown to Every Tip-Off > Countdown to Every Tip-Off (iPhone/iPad app by Jonathan Hunter.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/courtside-countdown/id6823734704 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jonathan Hunter](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801641595) - Category: Sports, Utilities - Price: $1.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.6 · 5 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-19 - Data updated: 2026-11-01 ## What is Courtside Countdown? Never miss a tip-off. Courtside Countdown counts down to your team's next game, men's or women's, with a dial that glows in your team's colors. PICK A TEAM, TAP LOAD Choose Men's or Women's, pick a team, and tap Load. The whole 2026-27 schedule fills in: opponents, home, away, and neutral-site games, holiday tournaments, and tip-off times. 64 programs for each, about 3,900 games in all, ready to go. A COUNTDOWN YOU CAN SEE - A dial fills as tip-off approaches, with days, hours, minutes, and seconds - When the game starts, the dial turns to LIVE and stays that way for the length of a game, then moves on to the next one by itself - Your team's colors run through the whole screen, from the header band to the court lines to the dial BOTH TEAMS, ONE TAP Flip between a school's men's and women's lists with one tap, or follow as many teams as you like. Games that happen on the same day show up together. YOUR TIME ZONE, AUTOMATICALLY Every tip-off is shown in your phone's own time zone. A 6:00 PM Eastern game reads 3:00 PM on the West Coast. SEASON CALENDAR See every game from all your lists on one month view, with a dot in each team's colors. Tap a day to see who's playing and when. ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR One tap adds your team's confirmed games to your iPhone calendar. Games still waiting on a time are left out until it's announced, and tapping again later adds only the new ones, so nothing doubles up. Courtside Countdown asks for "Add Events Only" access: it can add games but can't read anything in your calendar. TIMES THAT KEEP UP Many tip-off times aren't announced until the season is underway. Games without a time show their date and "Time TBD." When new times come out, an Update Now banner brings them in, and any conference tournament or postseason games you've added yourself are kept. YOUR LISTS FOLLOW YOU Sign in to iCloud and your lists, your favorite team, and your calendar records appear on every iPhone and iPad you use. Nothing to set up, nothing to pay, and the switch is on the Schedule tab if you'd rather keep a device on its own. MADE FOR iPHONE DUO AND iPAD Unfold an iPhone Duo and hold it wide, or turn your iPad sideways: the countdown stays on the left, with Schedule and Calendar on the right. Everywhere else, it looks just as it always has. MADE YOURS - Star a favorite team and open it from the Shortcuts app - Add, edit, or remove games, including tournament and neutral-site games - Back up a schedule to Files and bring it back any time - A live scores ticker runs across the top PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your lists are saved on your device, with optional iCloud sync across your own devices. Schedules and times come from public sources and can change, so check your team's official site before you head out. Courtside Countdown is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any college, university, athletic conference, or governing body. Team colors are fan-made color combinations only; no logos or marks are used. ## Is Courtside Countdown safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Courtside Countdown. ## Is Courtside Countdown legit? Courtside Countdown appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Courtside Countdown is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1 — 2026-10-30 Your lists now follow you, and Courtside Countdown is made for iPhone Duo and iPad. - iCloud sync: your lists, your favorite team, and your calendar records appear on your other iPhones and iPads signed into the same Apple ID. Turn it off any time with the switch on the Schedule tab - iPhone Duo and iPad: unfold a Duo and hold it wide, or turn your iPad sideways, and the countdown stays on the left with Schedule and Calendar on the right - Tip-off times are now in for nearly every game of the season. Tap Update Now on the Schedule tab to bring them into the lists you already have - The tip-off date field always fits inside its card - On the Duo's cover display, and on an iPhone held sideways, the page now keeps clear of the camera, the clock, and the notch ### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-20 Dozens of new tip-off times, and a few fixes. Added the tip-off times announced since launch, including early-season games for many teams Fixed a game with no time yet showing one day too few; it now counts the days to its date Fixed a few games that showed a time on one team's schedule and "Time TBD" on the other's; both now agree One newly scheduled game added Tap Update Now on the Schedule tab to bring the new times into the lists you already have ### 1.0 — 2026-10-19 No release notes. ## More apps by Jonathan Hunter - [Countdown Chameleon](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/countdown-chameleon/id6801641593) - [Kaizen Aikido Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaizen-aikido-tracker/id6804245172) - [Gameday Countdown](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gameday-countdown/id6804465745) - [Mod Tally](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mod-tally/id6806572013) - [Waypoints: Travel Log](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/waypoints-travel-log/id6819680074) All apps by Jonathan Hunter: https://appshunter.io/developer/6801641595 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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