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Counting down since 2015, rated 4.7 stars from over 130,000 ratings worldwide.\n\nThe original Event Countdown app, used by over a million people every month. Start straight away with unlimited countdowns. No account or sign-up needed.\n\nCount down to the days that matter: Birthday, Holiday, Party, Christmas, Halloween, Wedding, Anniversary, Baby Due Date, Graduation, New Home, Match Day, Concert, Film Release, Retirement, Bucket List and many more.\n\nNEW: CALENDAR VIEW\nSee every event on a beautiful month grid, with your events colour-coded below. Swipe between months, tap a day, open any countdown.\n\nLIVE COUNTDOWN WIDGETS\nA Home Screen widget that ticks every second, plus Next Event, multi-event, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets.\n\nLIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN\nLive Activities show your next event on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island as the moment approaches.\n\nMAKE IT YOURS, SHARE THE EXCITEMENT\nHundreds of icons, every colour, repeats that show ages on birthdays. Then turn any countdown into a shareable video.\n\nFree version:\n- Unlimited event countdowns, all in one place\n- Next Event widget on your Home Screen\n- Count up or down in years, days, hours, minutes and seconds\n- Colour code events • choose from 450 icons\n- Share events with friends and family\n- Notes, notifications, and search\n\nPremium version:\n- Calendar View (NEW)\n- The full widget collection: Live Countdown, Lock Screen, StandBy, multi-event and choose-your-event widgets\n- Live Activities on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island\n- Ad free • Calendars • Detailed notifications\n- Sync events across all your Apple devices\n- Repeat events (with ages on birthdays and anniversaries)\n- 450 colour icons\n\nEvent Countdown Premium is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-off lifetime purchase.\n\nPayment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.\n\nTerms of Use - https://www.root38.com/terms-and-conditions/\nPrivacy Policy - https://www.root38.com/privacy-policy/","facts":{"developer_id":1206411222,"developer_url":"https://eventcountdown.app","first_released":"2015-04-16T09:21:13Z","support_url":"https://root38.zendesk.com/","privacy_url":"https://root38.com/privacy-policy/","website_url":"https://eventcountdown.app/","app_version":"5.29.0","release_notes":"Ready for iOS 27, with a bigger widget and a couple of visual fixes. Upcoming Events, the widget that used to be called Next 4 Events, now comes in the new extra-large size and shows up to eight events. It works at extra-large on iPad too.\n\nAlerts now stay in your notification list until you dismiss them. Opening the app used to clear them, so an alert could look as though it never arrived. 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