Keep what matters in sight.
InSight Countdown turns the wait for what matters into something you look forward to seeing.
Set a countdown to an exact date and time — your flight, an exam, a birthday, a deadline — not just a vague duration. A huge, glanceable countdown fills your screen, ticking down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the precise moment.
FEATURES
• Count down to an exact date & time
Pick the exact calendar date and time of your event — or a simple duration when that's all you need. The closest event is always front and center. Add a note — flight number, gate, address — shown in small type under the name.
• Synced across your devices
Your countdowns stay in sync between iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your private iCloud — the same events, each keeping its own visualization, follow you everywhere. Your countdowns are yours — their content is never sent to us.
• Choose how time looks
Watch time melt away in a draining hourglass, a progress ring, a rounded bar, a Time-Timer-style shrinking disc, a dot grid, a dot dial, a solar eclipse, an unwinding spiral, or a sun along its day arc — plus themed styles: a Christmas tree lighting up branch by branch, a birthday cake whose candles flicker on, a beach parasol opening as the sun rises, a juice glass that fills, a dumbbell loading up plate by plate, a car climbing a mountain road, a plane arcing around a globe, and lit-up landmarks (the Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa). Pick a look that fits the occasion — a parasol for a trip, a cake for a birthday — so a glance tells you what's coming. Swipe to switch right on the countdown; each remembers its own. Landscape keeps a linear bar.
• Make it yours
Pick a digit font — from a clean system face to a retro seven-segment LCD — and tint the whole app with a preset accent color or any color you choose.
• Many countdowns, one glance
The nearest event takes the main screen; the rest sit in a quick-access bottom bar. Choose per countdown when it takes the main screen — always, only when it's near, only on its day, or never — so a far-off event doesn't crowd out nearer ones. Or watch several at once on any device: Duo fits two to your screen, and a large grid shows four. iPad and Mac add a denser small grid and a zoomed layout that enlarges the nearest event. Called off? Archive it instead of deleting — it waits until you set a new date.
• Daily & weekly repeats
Set a countdown to repeat every day, or on the weekdays you choose (say Mon/Wed/Fri), and it rolls forward automatically after it finishes — great for routines, classes, standups, and recurring reminders.
• Beat procrastination — and have fun doing it
A deadline you can see is harder to ignore. Keep the countdown in front of you — full screen or on the Lock Screen — and watch the remaining time melt away. Better yet, the task you kept putting off becomes a screen you want to watch.
• Lock Screen & Dynamic Island
Show your countdowns as Live Activities on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Choose per countdown when it appears.
• Doubles as an alarm across your devices
The instant a countdown hits zero, an alert breaks through silent mode and Focus — and on iOS 26 it rings until you dismiss it — or snooze it for five more minutes — so any countdown works as a full alarm. Add an early reminder (from 10 seconds to a day before), or ring the alarm up to 3 minutes ahead. Because your countdowns sync through iCloud, the same alarm can ring on whichever device is with you.
• iPhone, iPad & Mac
The full-screen countdown adapts to any size and rotation — a phone in your pocket, an iPad propped up as an always-on display, or a resizable Mac window. The controls fade away when you're not touching the screen, leaving just the countdown.
• Stays awake when you want
Optional screen-lock control keeps the display on — always or only while charging — so your countdown stays in sight.
Free. No account needed. Your countdowns are yours.
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