Soon vs DayDrop

I built this app because I couldn't find what I needed. I hope you find it useful too. I was looking for a simple countdown app with widgets for iOS, but every app I found either required a subscription, charged money, or limited how many widgets I could create. So, I built Soon-ish, a completely free countdown app with unlimited widgets, no subscriptions, and no hidden fees. **Unlimited Widgets, Completely Free** Create as many countdowns and widgets as you want. Track birthdays, holidays, Twitch streams, or any important moment. All widgets are free, forever. **Types of Widgets** • Lock Screen Widgets: See your countdowns right on your lock screen • Home Screen Widgets: Small, medium, and large sizes • Live Timers: Real-time countdown that updates every second • Dynamic Island: pin a countdown to the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen as a Live Activity • Customizable Display: Choose to show days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds **Full-ish Customizability** • Custom Colors: Pick any color for text and backgrounds • Custom Icons: Choose from hundreds of icons (Ionicons & MaterialIcons) • Custom Fonts: Select from multiple font families • Background Images: Use your own photos as backgrounds • Background Overlays: Adjust brightness and contrast for perfect readability • Multiple Themes: Light, dark, and custom color schemes **Smart-ish Recurring Events** • Daily: Countdowns that repeat every day • Weekly: Set specific days of the week • Monthly: Same day each month • Yearly: Annual events like birthdays and holidays • Custom Schedule: Create complex recurring patterns with multiple time slots **Notifications** • Get alerted the moment a countdown completes • Optional reminders before and follow-ups after • Write your own notification message **Integrations** • Twitch: Countdown to your favorite streamers' next streams! • Holidays: Browse and add popular holidays and events! • Share Countdowns: Share your countdowns with friends via link! **Other Features** • Clock Mode: Full-screen countdown display • Timezone Support: Track events across different timezones • Granularity Control: Show exactly the time units you want • Sort & Organize: Customize the order of your countdowns • Background Sync: Automatic updates for imported countdowns **No Subscriptions, No Limits** Soonish is completely free with no in-app purchases required. Create unlimited countdowns, use all features, and enjoy beautiful widgets without ever paying a cent.

DayDrop turns the dates you care about into something you actually see. Make a countdown for a trip, a birthday, a launch, or a wedding. Give it a color, an emoji, and a photo. Then watch a progress ring fill as the day gets closer — on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and your Mac. One thing, done beautifully. BEAUTIFUL BY DEFAULT • A progress ring that fills as the date approaches • Ten colors, gradients, and your own photos as backgrounds • Big, friendly numbers you can read from across the room • Standard or compact cards, whichever suits your list WIDGETS EVERYWHERE • Home Screen widgets in every size • Lock Screen and StandBy widgets • An "Up Next" widget for your soonest countdowns, or just one folder • Live Activities that tick down the final hours on your Lock Screen • A menu bar countdown on Mac — free for everyone COUNT DOWN, OR COUNT UP • Days, weeks, hours, working days, or a full year-month-day breakdown • Count up from a start date for streaks, sobriety, and milestones • Repeating birthdays and anniversaries that roll over on their own • All-day dates never drift when you travel or change time zones NEVER MISS THE DAY • Reminders a week out, a day out, and on the morning of • Pick the time all-day reminders arrive • Past countdowns can archive themselves automatically SHARE IT • Send any countdown to a friend in Messages with a rich preview • They can open it in DayDrop and keep it, or just see the link • Import a calendar event and turn it into a countdown ON EVERY DEVICE • Native apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — not a stretched phone app • iCloud keeps everything in sync through your own private database • Split view, keyboard shortcuts, and a real menu bar on iPad and Mac • Shortcuts and Siri support for making countdowns by voice • Export and import your countdowns as a file, any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No ads. Your countdowns sync through your own iCloud, and nobody — including us — can read them. DAYDROP PRO DayDrop is free to use with one active countdown, sharing, iCloud sync, a day-of reminder, and the Mac menu bar countdown. DayDrop Pro unlocks unlimited countdowns, all widgets and Live Activities, photo and gradient backgrounds, repeating dates, multiple reminders, count-up mode, alternative time units, folders, notes, custom app icons, Shortcuts, calendar import, and export/import. Pro is available weekly, monthly, or yearly with a 7-day free trial — or as a one-time lifetime purchase. If a subscription ever lapses, nothing is deleted. Your oldest countdown stays editable and the rest wait, read-only, until you come back.