Discover, right on your list — Featured upcoming events (holidays, movie releases, and more) now show up right in your main list, so you don't have to go looking for what to add. New: Movie release countdowns — Track the big ones as they're announced, including Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Avengers: Doomsday, Dune: Part Three, and more. Celebrations that actually show up — Confetti, snow, and hidden surprises (try titling something "Christmas," "Disney," or someone's birthday) now fire right on your main list when a countdown hits zero. Dynamic Island improvements — Past-due countdowns now read correctly at a glance, and the final hour before your event shows a live progress bar right in the expanded island. AI-designed looks for Discover events — Add something from Discover and you'll get a one-tap option to generate a custom color theme and artwork for it. Fixed: countdown background photos that had gone missing (most commonly after a device transfer) are automatically recovered.

Birthdays & Yearly Events - Import birthdays straight from your Contacts — each one becomes a countdown automatically - New "Repeats Yearly" option: birthdays and anniversaries roll over to next year on their own, so they never expire Keepsake Scrapbook - Add photos to any countdown and turn past events into memories - Your scrapbook syncs across devices with iCloud Share Cards & Videos - Turn any countdown into a beautiful card sized for Instagram Stories or your feed — long-press a countdown or use the share menu - Pro: create a short animated video — the countdown ticks down, lands on your number, and erupts in confetti with your celebration emoji. Your card's background effects come along too. Made for stories and feeds. Discover - Browse a curated collection of holidays, sports finals, sky events, and just-for-fun dates — and add any of them to your countdowns with one tap. New events appear throughout the year, no update required. Live Activities: The Final Countdown - On the day of your event, your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island now tick down the hours, minutes, and seconds — live Easier Navigation - New filter chips jump straight to Upcoming, Keepsakes, or Calendar - Sections can be collapsed and remember your preference - Pull down to refresh your list Plus lots of polish - iCloud sync is dramatically faster and more reliable — and recovers from network hiccups automatically - Fixed a crash when granting calendar access - Buying Pro now removes ads immediately - Many smaller fixes to notifications, sharing, and widgets

Countdown Pro • New one-time Countdown Pro upgrade — unlocks AI Themes, Weather Forecasts, Live Activities, Custom Fonts, and Celebration Effects • Pro users enjoy a completely ad-free experience AI Theme Generation • Generate unique color schemes and background images using on-device AI (Apple Intelligence devices) • Gradient background fallback on devices without Image Playground support • AI themes now match your selected category instead of defaulting to Celebration Weather Forecasts • See weather forecasts on countdown cards and widgets for events with a location • Temperature unit preference (System / °F / °C) in Settings, synced across iPhone and Apple Watch Widget & Watch Improvements • Improved widget reliability — fixed crashes related to data loading and Core Data access • Watch app now receives countdown images from iPhone • Watch complications show your countdowns at a glance • Long titles now scale to fit on widgets, watch, and main app cards Event Day Enhancements • Time-based countdowns (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) now show live values on event day instead of "Today's the day!" • Fixed negative numbers appearing in the detail view after event time passes Stability • Fixed a crash caused by layout feedback loops on the main list • Fixed the Restore Purchases flow so Pro status persists correctly A Thank You to Our Longtime Users If you downloaded Countdown before this update, all Pro features are unlocked for you — free, forever. Enjoy!

Countdown Pro • New one-time Countdown Pro upgrade — unlocks AI Themes, Weather Forecasts, Live Activities, Custom Fonts, and Celebration Effects • Pro users enjoy a completely ad-free experience AI Theme Generation • Generate unique color schemes and background images using on-device AI (Apple Intelligence devices) • Gradient background fallback on devices without Image Playground support • AI themes now match your selected category instead of defaulting to Celebration Weather Forecasts • See weather forecasts on countdown cards and widgets for events with a location • Temperature unit preference (System / °F / °C) in Settings, synced across iPhone and Apple Watch Widget & Watch Improvements • Improved widget reliability — fixed crashes related to data loading and Core Data access • Watch app now receives countdown images from iPhone • Watch complications show your countdowns at a glance • Long titles now scale to fit on widgets, watch, and main app cards Event Day Enhancements • Time-based countdowns (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) now show live values on event day instead of "Today's the day!" • Fixed negative numbers appearing in the detail view after event time passes Stability • Fixed a crash caused by layout feedback loops on the main list • Fixed the Restore Purchases flow so Pro status persists correctly A Thank You to Our Longtime Users If you downloaded Countdown before this update, all Pro features are unlocked for you — free, forever. Enjoy!

Apple Watch App — Completely Rebuilt Your countdowns now sync seamlessly to Apple Watch. The watch app has been rebuilt from the ground up with a modern SwiftUI interface, showing your upcoming events with beautiful background images. Add watch face complications to see your next countdown at a glance — available in circular, rectangular, inline, and corner styles. Location-Based Weather Countdowns with a location now show the weather forecast for your event day. See the high/low temperature, conditions, and precipitation chance right on the detail view — so you know whether to pack an umbrella for that outdoor wedding. iMessage App — Redesigned Share countdowns with friends directly in Messages. The extension has been completely rewritten with a clean, modern design that makes it easy to pick and send a countdown. Background Effects New visual effects for your countdown cards — choose from grid, blur, vignette, color tint, frosted glass, and bloom styles. AI-Generated Themes Countdowns can now feature AI-generated color schemes and background images that match your event, creating a unique look for every countdown.

Countdown sharing fixes.

Fixes for special events.

Fix freeze when changing the countdown image in subsequent edits.

Special Effects UI Enhancements iCloud Support

Resolved issue in iOS 12 that caused images to disappear after updates. Added new watch face (graphic corner) for Apple Watch Series 4. New interactive notifications for iOS.

Fix bug loading countdown in Today's Widget.

Color wheel for selecting background and text colors.

Stability fixes.

Fix crash when deleting from iMessage. Fix iPad triggering repeat notifications.

Load and track your countdown events directly from your Apple Watch. Also added a Today's Widget. In order to reduce clutter on the Apple Watch: - On the Apple Watch, only your Countdown events will displayed - Countdown events will be created from your iPhone without your image as a default, but you can add the image by force touching the Apple Watch to display the menu and select 'Request Image'. - Any Countdown event you delete from your Apple Watch will not be deleted on your iPhone App. If you update/add/delete on your iPhone, the change will be synchronized to your Apple Watch. - The image from your iPhone will be resized and optimized for the Apple Watch display. Apple Watch complications added to support most watch face complications. Complication will display based on the last viewed event on watch.

Fix crash in iMessage.

iMessage App: CountDownWithMessages. Now you can share you countdowns and keepsakes directly from iMessages or create a sticker with your countdown image.

Improvements for selecting date with calendar view.

Notifications are back. Added Keepsake Events, events from that past that you would like to track and count up from. When setting background from photo library, if no event date is set, pre-fill with the photo create date. Nice for those Keepsake Events. Minor UI changes.

Improve user interface for edit. Support for iPhone X.

Live Edit Mode - Pick from a set of fonts, choose text colors and drag text where you want to see it. Simply press and hold on the screen to enable live edit mode.

Performance fixes.

Fixing App Store submission.

Adding new timer view with hours, minutes and seconds to event.

Countdown now compatible for iPad! Added new list view to show smaller, scrollable versions for your events. Added option to read events from calendar for easy starting place to create new Countdown Events.