Simple Count is now on Apple Watch, free. Put a countdown on your watch face: touch and hold the face, tap Edit, swipe to Complications and choose Simple Count. Show Next Event, or pick one countdown. It's in the Smart Stack too, on your countdown's colours, and moves up as the day gets closer. Open the watch app to see all your countdowns in the same order as on your iPhone, with a live timer in the last 24 hours. They come over from your iPhone by themselves, nothing to set up. With iOS 18 and watchOS 11 or later, Live Activities get their own look on your watch. Find the steps on your iPhone in the app's Settings, under "Apple Watch". There you can also add a ready-made Simple Count watch face with one tap.

When you join a shared countdown from an invite link, it now opens right away, so you don't have to look for it.

Talk to Siri. Say "Hey Siri, add a countdown in Simple Count", then just tell it what's coming, like "my wedding on the 1st of October 2027". Siri checks it with you and adds it, with a matching emoji, or the one you ask for ("with a heart emoji"). Birthdays and anniversaries repeat every year. Ask "How many days until my wedding in Simple Count?" any time. Or say "How many days until a date in Simple Count" to count the days to any date, and save it as a countdown if you like. See everything you can say in Settings under "Use Siri". It all works in the Shortcuts app and Spotlight too. New on iOS 27: a full-page widget. Put one countdown on a whole Home Screen page, with your photo or colours filling the screen. Tapping a widget or Live Activity now opens that countdown, not the whole list. Opening the app for the first time without iCloud no longer keeps you waiting on the start screen.

Your countdowns now sync between your iPhone and iPad. Add, change or delete one and it changes everywhere, widgets, reminders and pins included. It runs on your own iCloud: no account, and we never see your countdowns. You can turn it off in Settings. Notes are now a full page. Write freely, then add sections that fold open and closed and checklists you can tick off, like Hotel, Tickets or a packing list. With Simple Count Pro you can add photos and files too. One toolbar adds them right where you're typing. On a shared countdown, everyone sees and edits the same notes: tick an item and it's ticked for everyone. Search finds what's inside your notes too. iCloud Backup is now part of sync: your countdowns still come back if you reinstall the app. Also: opening the app now always picks up the latest changes to shared countdowns. In Settings you can now follow Simple Count on Instagram, TikTok and X. On iPad, "How to add the widget" in Settings now shows an iPad.

New: Count Down Together. Share a countdown with the people you're counting down with, and it stays linked. When anyone changes the date, the photo or the note, it updates on every device, widgets included. Everyone can make changes, and your reminders stay your own. It runs on Apple's iCloud: no account, and we never see your countdowns. You can share one countdown for free; Simple Count Pro lets you share as many as you like at once. Joining is always free. To start one, open a countdown, tap Share, then Count Down Together. Count Down Together replaces Send to a Friend: what you share now stays up to date for everyone. Not sure how to get the widget onto your iPhone? Simple Count now shows you. Open Settings and tap "How to add the widget": a little iPhone plays every step, for both the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. Until you've added one, a short tip on the main screen takes you straight there. The widget also has a new choice: Next Event. It always shows your closest countdown and moves on to the next one by itself once the day has passed. New widgets start on it, and you can still pick any single countdown instead. Past countdowns are now one tap away. A new Upcoming and Past switch at the top of the main screen gives finished events their own tab, so you no longer have to scroll past every upcoming countdown to find them. It appears as soon as one of your events has passed. You can now select straight from search results: search, tap the checkmark, pick your countdowns and share them. On iPad, the welcome screens new users see now fit the big screen and show an iPad instead of an iPhone. This update also fixes the app closing right after opening on iOS 17. Plus a few small fixes.

You can now try a photo background before you buy it. Pick a photo and it lands on your countdown straight away — then keep it, or save without it, whichever you prefer. The Pro screen shows what a photo background actually looks like instead of only describing it. Also: the widget no longer adds a party popper to a countdown on its day — your own emoji is already there, and not every countdown is a celebration. Live Activities finish with that same emoji now, and new countdowns start on a brighter colour. And if you're new here: the welcome screens are now pictures instead of paragraphs, and you can style a countdown before you've even started.

Import from Calendar: the concerts, trips and birthdays already in your calendar become countdowns, without typing them again. Search to find one among hundreds, and repeating events keep repeating.

Tidier new-countdown screen: emoji and card style now sit nearer the top, and the confetti switch lives under a section actually called Confetti.

Past events now keep their own colors and photos in the list, instead of fading to grey once the day has gone by.

When you set up a widget, the countdown list now follows the same order as the app: pinned first, then whatever is coming up soonest, with past events at the end.

Fixed repeating countdowns set to a custom interval, such as every 2 days, that showed "Every day" instead of the actual days remaining. Notifications now show your event's time, and their wording fits every kind of countdown - appointments and deadlines, not just celebrations.

Fixed a background crash that could occur while Simple Count refreshed Live Activities.

Fixed a bug where tapping a shared countdown could just open Simple Count without adding the event. Shared events now import the first time you tap the link, even when the app wasn't already open.

Fixed a bug where a note written while creating or editing an event could be lost instead of saved. Notes now save reliably wherever you add them. The event editor also asks before discarding unsaved changes, so a stray swipe can no longer lose an event you were still writing.

NEW: iCloud Backup! Your events, notes, and photos are now backed up automatically to your own iCloud — delete the app or switch to a new iPhone, and everything comes right back. Still no account, and still private: the backup lives in your personal iCloud, where we can't see it. Turn it off or delete it anytime in Settings. NEW: Notes! Add a note to any event — tickets, addresses, packing lists — and view or edit it right on the countdown screen with the new note button. Notes travel with shared events too. NEW: Search! Find any countdown instantly by name or note — or search by emoji: mark all your birthdays with the same emoji and pull them up together, like tags. Plus: keep Simple Count in a widget Smart Stack and iOS now brings it to the top on its own as your event gets close — and follow us on Instagram from Settings (@simplecountdownapp).

NEW: Fully custom recurring events — now free for everyone! Repeat any event exactly the way you want: every few days, weeks, months, or years, on specific weekdays, on multiple days each month, or patterns like "the 3rd Sunday of June, July, and August." NEW: Custom countdown reminders! Add as many reminders as you like to each event — days, hours, or even minutes before your big moment. IMPROVED: Live Activities now work reliably with repeating events, and a new notification invites you to follow the final 6 hours live on your Lock Screen. FIXED: Widgets now roll over to the next day exactly on time, with clearer day labels and reliability improvements throughout the app. Enjoy the anticipation!

Improvements to sharing and small fixes. Shared countdown cards now look even better — and if you enjoy Simple Count, the app may kindly ask you for a rating. Thanks for your support!

Available in 12 Languages — Simple Count is now fully localized in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. Switch languages anytime from Settings — no restart required. Simple Count Pro — Unlock custom photo backgrounds and repeating events to personalize every countdown and keep them automatically counting toward the next occurrence. Live Activities — Upcoming events now appear automatically on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with a live countdown timer. Share with Friends — Share any countdown as a beautiful card or send a link so friends can add it directly to their own Simple Count. You can also select and share multiple events at once. Improved Lock Screen Widgets — Enhanced readability ensures your countdowns stay clear and easy to read on any wallpaper. Plus a redesigned selection mode, delete confirmations, smoother animations, and many smaller improvements throughout the app.