Countdown Widget vs DayDrop

DayDrop is the countdown widget for iPhone that shows the days until everything you're looking forward to — Christmas, your wedding, a birthday, vacation, or the day your baby arrives — right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. "Finally, a countdown app that actually looks good on my Home Screen." See your most important days counting down from everywhere: Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, iPad, and StandBy. WHY PEOPLE LOVE DAYDROP • Beautiful AI-generated photo backgrounds — describe any event and get a stunning, one-of-a-kind photo backdrop in seconds. • Countdown to the exact moment — set a specific time on any event and watch days, hours, minutes, and seconds tick down live. • Your photo in the Dynamic Island — your event's background shows live in the Dynamic Island and Live Activity, with a progress ring. • 10 widget placements — Home Screen (small, medium, large, extra-large), multi-event widget, Lock Screen, StandBy, and Control Center. • Multi-event widget with progress bars — several countdowns at a glance. • iPad optimized — adaptive layouts, ExtraLarge widget, and a roomier overview. • iCloud sync — your countdowns move with you across iPhone and iPad. Always in sync, always private. • Share cards — send your countdown to anyone. • Badge countdown on app icon — glance at your Home Screen, see days left. • Liquid Glass, iOS 26 native — designed for Apple's latest design language. • Orbital year view — your whole year of countdowns in a single circular timeline. POWERFUL & PERSONAL • Count up and down from any date • 8 categories — Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries, Holidays, Vacations, Work, Fitness, Custom • Recurring events — annual, monthly, weekly, or biweekly • Milestone notifications — 30, 14, 7, 3 days before • Celebration confetti on the big day • Pin your most important events • Import birthdays from Contacts in one tap • Gyroscope parallax and tactile scroll animations A CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN, A NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN, AND EVERY DAY WORTH WAITING FOR How many days until Christmas? Until New Year's Eve? Until Halloween, the concert, your exam, retirement, or the trip you've been planning all year? DayDrop keeps the answer one glance away — as a widget, on your Lock Screen, or with Siri: just ask "how many days until my event in DayDrop." LOCK SCREEN, DONE RIGHT Category icons on your Lock Screen widgets, with desaturated backgrounds so your countdown stays glanceable. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into 16 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your countdowns stay on your devices and in your iCloud. We don't sell your data. DAYDROP PREMIUM Premium unlocks AI photo backgrounds, Live Activity and Dynamic Island, every widget placement, watermark-free share cards, unlimited pins, custom milestone notifications, iCloud sync, and the orbital year view. Plans and pricing are shown in the app. Questions? Email daydrop@beatroot.dev or visit daydrop.beatroot.dev. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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.