Countdown Fred vs Dayception

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.

Some things are worth counting down to. Dayception turns the dates that matter — birthdays, trips, launches, anniversaries, the big day — into beautiful countdowns you'll actually want to look at. Counted in sleeps, with a live timer ticking to the second as the day nears, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Most countdown apps stop at "days until." Dayception keeps going. THE INSIGHTS ENGINE Under every countdown is a real analytics engine that reads the shape of your year. See where your months cluster on a year heat-map. Get smart cards that surface what's coming — the next milestone, your busiest month, your longest countdown. Break the year down by category. And flip a date you've passed into a count-up, to mark the time since it mattered. ON EVERY SCREEN - Widgets for the Lock Screen and Home Screen — and they show in StandBy - A live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen - A countdown that lives in your Mac menu bar, always a glance away - Siri and Shortcuts: "how many sleeps until my holiday?" - Reminders that build as the day nears: a month out, a week out, the night before, the morning of THE DETAILS - Recurring birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own - Working-days-until, aware of UK and US holidays - Sort by soonest, pin what matters to the top, archive what's done - Turn any countdown into a beautiful card for Stories or Messages in a single tap PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dayception is offline-first. Your countdowns live on your devices and sync only through your own private iCloud — no account to create, nothing stored on our servers, and no analytics, ads or trackers. Ever. PAY ONCE Five countdowns are free, for as long as you like. Unlock unlimited countdowns and the full insights engine for a single price — no subscription. During the launch window it's £14.99 as a Founder, which also gets you an exclusive Founder app icon and a Founder badge in the app. Made for people who like to anticipate.