Exam season? Count down to matric prelims, trials and NSC finals — plus GCSE mocks, A Levels and uni deadlines. Good luck, Class of 2026!
Exam Countdown is the beautifully simple countdown, planner and widget app for every exam that matters. Counting down since 2015, rated 4.7 stars from over 30,000 ratings.
The original exam countdown app, used by students, teachers and schools in over 100 countries.
Count down to the ones that count: matric prelims, trials and NSC finals, GCSE and A Level papers, IB, SQA Highers, university finals, coursework and homework deadlines, driving theory, music grades and every test in between.
CALENDAR VIEW
See your whole semester on a month grid, colour coded, with every exam a tap away.
LIVE COUNTDOWN WIDGETS
A Home Screen widget that ticks every second, plus Next Exam, Next 4 Exams and Lock Screen widgets.
LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN
Live Activities put your next exam on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island as it approaches.
MAKE IT YOURS
Hundreds of icons, every colour, categories to group your subjects, and notes on any exam.
Free version:
• Unlimited exam countdowns, all in one place
• Count down in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds
• Colour code your exams
• Choose from 400 icons
• Add notes to any exam
• Invite friends and family to count down with you
• Notifications before every exam
Premium version:
• Ad free
• The full widget collection, including the second by second Live Countdown
• Live Activities on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
• Calendar View
• Categories to group your subjects
• Detailed alerts, with your choice of alert sound
• Record and review your exam results
• Sync across all your Apple devices
• All 400 colour icons and 70 colours
Exam Countdown is free to download and use. Premium is available as a yearly subscription or as a one off lifetime purchase.
Terms of Use - https://www.root38.com/terms-and-conditions/
Privacy Policy - https://www.root38.com/privacy-policy/
Coming up to my GCSEs, I was one very stressed person. This app, however, was invaluable in showing me exactly how long I had before the exams, organising revision sessions, and getting myself and my studies under control. Colour coding the different subjects and picking icons was surprisingly motivational - it made the whole exam experience that bit brighter! And during exam season, the list of completed subjects on the app encouraged me ENORMOUSLY by reminding me that I survived the first ones, and I would get through the others too! I’m using this again now that A levels are looming on the horizon. I definitely recommend this to everyone. I thought this looked like a useful app, but it far exceeded my expectations!
I think it's the best
Georgeiana
It has helped me organize my time better and the color co-ordination is very useful it is easier to understand what exams I have and when I have them and the times and it even lets you wright notes which make revision easy, this app has allowed me to know my exam dates and how many hours,minutes and seconds there is until them, which when you stress about them this really helps for you to get more organized and when you're organized ,trust me, it makes exams a hell of a lot easier. I don't usually write reviews but I felt this was a really useful app and other people should use it. I'm only giving 4 stars because it would be better if it had a warning or an alarm that went of the morning of the exam -Georgia, hope you find this useful and good luck if you have exams 👍
Absolutely worth the time!!!!
maroenrrhgdj
This app allows you to keep track of exams and events accordingly and it is supper affective although it states ads with you not going premium it still allows a quick and easy access yet it is barely an advert it is 2 clicks to find out the exam time? Day? How long? And how many days till? I fully believe you should use this as it is highly recommended for use From maizey 😆😊 good luck and wish you well in exams you deserve good things to happen and to stay organised this is your app!!
Really Good App!
dancestargirl633
I don't write reviews very often, but I wanted to write one for this app. It's really good as you are able to organise your exams with different colours and symbols, and set exact dates and times. Then it orders them for you and shows you how many days until each exam, which is great as it means you can make sure you have prepared for the closest exams. You can also write notes under the exams I believe, although I didn't as I haven't had time yet. Really recommend if you need a colourful & visual way of organising your exams.
iOS 27 Ready! A bigger widget, and a round of fixes for the Home Screen.
• New: the Upcoming Exams widget, formerly Next 4 Exams, now comes in an extra-large size that shows up to eight exams at once. Find it on iPad, and on iPhone with iOS 27. Widgets already on your Home Screen keep working.
• Exam alerts now stay in Notification Centre until you clear them. Opening the app used to remove them, so it could look as though they never arrived.
• A new Enable Alerts switch in Settings lets you turn exam alerts on at any time, even if you skipped them when you first set up the app.
• Widgets could show as a blank white rectangle when the Home Screen was set to Clear or Tinted. They now follow whichever look you have chosen, and the Live Countdown widget keeps its icon artwork.
• An exam someone shared with you can no longer be edited by accident. Only the person who created it can make changes.
• On iOS 27, close buttons show an X again instead of a square, and the category title at the top of your exam list stays readable.
• Filtering by a category with nothing in it now offers "Show All Exams", in every language.
Thank you to everyone who wrote in about the blank widgets. That is how this one was found.
Version 5.8
The developer, ROOT38 LIMITED, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Supported Features
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Information
Provider
ROOT38 LIMITED
Size
106.9 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
