Dayception: Countdown Widget

Count the sleeps to big days

Free · In‑App Purchases

Live countdowns on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — and now in the app too. Count the sleeps to the days that matter Some things are worth counting down to. Dayception turns the dates that matter — birthdays, trips, launches, anniversaries, the big day — into beautiful countdowns you'll actually want to look at. Counted in sleeps, with a live timer ticking to the second as the day nears, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Most countdown apps stop at "days until." Dayception keeps going. THE INSIGHTS ENGINE Under every countdown is a real analytics engine that reads the shape of your year. See where your months cluster on a year heat-map. Get smart cards that surface what's coming — the next milestone, your busiest month, your longest countdown. Break the year down by category. And flip a date you've passed into a count-up, to mark the time since it mattered. ON EVERY SCREEN - Widgets for the Lock Screen and Home Screen — and they show in StandBy - A live countdown in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen - A countdown that lives in your Mac menu bar, always a glance away - Siri and Shortcuts: "how many sleeps until my holiday?" - Reminders that build as the day nears: a month out, a week out, the night before, the morning of THE DETAILS - Recurring birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own - Working-days-until, aware of UK and US holidays - Sort by soonest, pin what matters to the top, archive what's done - Turn any countdown into a beautiful card for Stories or Messages in a single tap PRIVATE BY DESIGN Dayception is offline-first. Your countdowns live on your devices and sync only through your own private iCloud — no account to create, nothing stored on our servers, and no analytics, ads or trackers. Ever. PAY ONCE Five countdowns are free, for as long as you like. Unlock unlimited countdowns and the full insights engine for a single price — no subscription. During the launch window it's £14.99 as a Founder, which also gets you an exclusive Founder app icon and a Founder badge in the app. Made for people who like to anticipate.

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Three fixes. No "bug fixes and improvements". We'd never do that to you. Live countdown is now actually live in the app. Pick the Live style and your event card ticks away in proper DD:HH:MM:SS. Previously this only worked on the widget while the app itself carried on saying "14 sleeps to go" and hoped you wouldn't notice. You noticed. The widget's little labels have found their digits. "hrs · min · sec" was standing noticeably off to one side of the numbers it was meant to be labelling, like the one person in a group photo who didn't get the memo. Everyone now lines up. Lock Screen and Dynamic Island countdowns behave themselves. No more numbers squeezed into "31:53:…", and no more mysterious dashes where your seconds should be. Your countdown now reads the way a person would say it — "1 day, 7 hrs" — and keeps itself up to date everywhere. As ever: no ads, no accounts, no nonsense. Just sleeps.

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    Seller
    • NetSmiths Ltd
    Size
    • 8.4 MB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 NetSmiths Ltd