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, color 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 color, 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
• Color 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 color icons and 70 colors
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/
First off I like to say THANK YOU for NO IN APP PURCHASES. But really thanks I really like the style of it and also how it shows the exact time till your exam. If you don't have an exam you can also just use it for tests, sure there's no setting between the two but that's fine it even makes it easier because if you are making a list of all your exams then have to choose between exam and test would be really annoying. The amount of choice and customization is really wonderful and the only thing that I would like to be added is for you to add what to study that's it everything else is great. Thanks debs and plz keep this free and everything inside it free too
I Loved It!
tbu.7
When I first got this app I thought it was just gonna be a bunch paid purchases you how to make an app. I thought this app would be useless and I wouldn’t even use it. But boy was I wrong!I use it all the time whether I’m studying or even stressing on an exam. I’m only twelve but I’m already gonna buy the premium!!! I commend whoever made this app!!!!!!!
satisfying aesthetics! :D
softmarshmillie
exam countdown is wonderful; a very aesthetically pleasing and reliable app!! love the premium previews through ads. i just wish they supported badge notifications so i can identify how many tests i have without opening the app- :^
College student's review
M507252
College student here, app does exactly what it is meant to do. Love it to bits for it's simplicity and straightforward design, just an app to schedule ur exams, nothing more, nothing less. Perfect!
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
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Information
Seller
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.
