Countdown Fred vs minical

Countdown Fred keeps the dates you are looking forward to where you can actually see them. Add the moments that matter — a holiday, a birthday, a wedding, a gig, the first day of something new — and Countdown Fred turns them into a clean grid of colourful cards, always sorted so the next one comes first. No accounts. No feeds. No clutter. Just how long until the good stuff. MAKE EVERY EVENT YOURS • Give each event a name, a date and one of eleven symbols • Choose from four card colours • Cards sort themselves by date, so what is next is always at the top • Tap any card to edit it or take it off the list DAYS OR WEEKS One tap switches the whole app between days and weeks. "45 days" or "6 weeks 3 days" — however you naturally think about time. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • A small widget for your next event • A medium widget showing what is next plus two more coming up • The widget takes on the colour of your next event • Refreshes itself every day, so the number is always right MADE TO BE LOOKED AT • Flat, friendly design with rounded type and soft colour • Light and dark mode are each designed properly, not one inverted copy of the other • Quick to open, quick to add, then out of your way YOURS ALONE Everything stays on your iPhone. There is no account to create, nothing to sign in to, no tracking and no analytics. Your events are nobody else's business.

Every event at a glance — that's all minical does. linked calendar, iCloud / iOS system calendars, and minical's own events — wherever they're created, they all land on one screen, color-coded. What's on today, how the rest of the month flows, all visible without scrolling. ■ At a glance • Today screen — next-event countdown, ongoing, what's left, what's done • Month view — the entire month in one grid, color patterns visible at a glance • Widgets — today + tomorrow without leaving the home/lock screen • Shortcuts — your lock screen wallpaper becomes today's schedule • Apple Watch — at a glance from your wrist ■ Core • iOS 26 native Tab Bar — Today / Calendar / Agenda / Search / Settings • Month · Week · Day views — Month uses vertical paging with magnetic snap. Tap the year/month title to jump anywhere • Two-way linked calendar sync — add / edit / delete writes back to linked calendar immediately. Multi-account • Recurring events — daily / weekly / monthly / yearly with end conditions. Editing a series instance asks: this event only or the whole series • Natural-language quick add — "tomorrow 3 PM meeting 1 hour" • linked calendar's 11-color palette + brightness tones — long-press for shade variants • Read-only iOS system calendars (iCloud / Exchange) blended in • Multi-alarm (10 presets, stack as many as you want) ■ Full widget lineup Home screen • Up Next (Small / Medium) — bold when one event, compact rows when many. Long-press to filter calendars • Today List (Medium / Large) — today first; tomorrow only when today has room to spare • Month grid (Large) Lock screen • Inline (one line above the clock — timed events first) • Inline Long (multiple events compressed) • Rectangular (single event large, multi-event compact) • Circular (today's count) Apple Watch • Native Watch app — quick view + quick add • Four complications (Inline / Rectangular / Circular / Corner) ■ Auto-refreshing wallpaper via Shortcuts • "Generate Today Wallpaper" Shortcut — chain it with the system "Set Wallpaper" action and a daily 7 AM automation, and your lock screen refreshes itself with today's plan • "Save Today Wallpaper to Photos" — single-action variant • Three styles: Gradient / Minimal / Dark ■ Promises • No ads. No account required (linked calendar sync is optional). No tracking. No IAP. • All data stays on-device. calendar account tokens live only in Keychain. No analytics or ad SDKs. Scattered events on one screen — today at a glance.