Up Ahead: Countdown Widgets 4+
Vacation & birthday reminders
Daniel Gauthier
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Up Ahead is a playful, beautiful way to keep track of everything you’re looking forward to. Create events in seconds, and build yourself an eclectic timeline full of birthdays, weddings, holidays, vacations, game releases, sporting events, or anything coming up that brings you joy. As your timeline grows, you’ll unlock themed patterns that can be used to give your events personality. Keep your countdowns top of mind with customizable widgets for your Home Screen or Lock Screen.
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CREATE EVENTS
Up Ahead events are quick and simple to create — just give your event a name, a date (with optional time), a category icon, and a color.
EVENT TIMELINE
View your events in a unique timeline format that gives you visual information about how much time is passing between events, and allows you to easily look back on your entire event history.
PATTERNS
As you create events, you’ll start to unlock decorative patterns that can be applied to any of your events and appear in both your in-app timeline and your widgets. Patterns are unlocked based on the content of your events, or as weekly gifts. How many can you find?
REMINDERS
Schedule flexible reminders to get notified about the events you don't want to miss.
ATTACHMENTS
Keep all your event information in one place by attaching short notes or links to your events.
HOME SCREEN WIDGETS
* "Countdown" widgets are simple widgets for counting down to a specific event.
* "Coming up" widgets come in multiple sizes and will dynamically count down to whatever event is coming up next. They can be customized with filters and display names, allowing you to create widgets such as “Next Raptors game” or “Upcoming game releases”.
* "Timeline grid" widgets give you a colorful high-level overview of all your upcoming events.
LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS
Simplified versions of “Countdown” and “Coming up” widgets are available to place right on your Lock Screen.
SIRI SHORTCUTS
Automate event creation or ask Siri about your events with Siri Shortcuts.
TIMELINE FILTERING
Quickly filter your events temporarily so that you can get a clean look at just the film releases you’re looking forward to, or the birthdays you want to remember.
RECURRING EVENTS
Mark an event as recurring — weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or yearly — to have it automatically replace itself in your timeline when an instance of the event has passed.
MULTI-DAY EVENTS
Give an event an optional end date to countdown to both an event’s beginning and its end.
ICLOUD BACKUPS
Automatically back up your events and pattern unlocks to iCloud Drive to ensure you never lose access to your data.
EVENT SHARING
Lightweight event sharing allows you to export and share colorful images of any event.
SOUND AND HAPTICS
Delightful sound effects and haptics bring the app to life.
...and lots more fun stuff to discover.
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The free version of Up Ahead is free forever, and contains no ads. If you’re looking for the best way to simply pop a few good-looking countdown widgets onto your Home Screen or Lock Screen, downloading Up Ahead for free is a great place to start.
With an in-app subscription to Up Ahead Plus, you’ll get all the bells and whistles: unlimited event creation, recurring and multi-day events, the full suite of widget types, and more.
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Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed.
Privacy policy: https://upaheadapp.com/privacy
Terms of service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 1.4.1
Tags: Add custom tags to your events for more precise timeline and widget filtering.
Gifts: Pattern unlocks are now simpler and more generous. New patterns appear as gifts every week!
Interactive widgets: New widget types and interactions get you more upcoming event info on your Home Screen.
Fixes and tweaks: Lots of small changes and updates under the hood to prepare for more good stuff coming soon.
Ratings and Reviews
Simple, powerful, beautiful
This is an awesome and well-designed app! The interface is simple to add events and make settings changes to customize how you want them to display. After playing with this app for about a day, I could see the value in this and upgraded to the lifetime (completely worth it) for all the features. The designers made getting new backgrounds as rewards for entering certain numbers of events or events with key words (hint: if you want an anniversary reminder, use the word “wedding” to unlock the wedding background; you can always change the title after you unlock the pattern) so that makes it fun to set up initially. Kudos to the developers for making this chore less painful!! Then the recent update allows for another pattern unlock a week. Between the background patterns, colors, logos, and tags (which are new and I have yet to explore), you can customize and categorize and make your timeline look and feel how you want. 5 stars, cannot recommend this simple, powerful, and beautiful app enough!
Amazing and polished App that can potentially replace your calendar
Love the attention to detail and usefulness of this app. This has greatly reduced my need for my Calendar app at all. The free version is excellent and the premium version is such a great value for what you pay. This app has made planning for the short term and long term so much easier. I originally downloaded it to countdown to one specific event but after seeing how much I could do I’ve pretty much moved any upcoming event/obligations into this app whether it is a bill or something else I have planned.
Feature request:
I would love to be able to turn on push notifications for specific countdowns. This would be extremely useful for things like doctors appointments or bills so the user is reminded when the date gets close or arrives.
Best countdown app. Hands down.
I’ve been looking for a great countdown app for a while. So many have inelegant UI or don’t function the way I would like. Up Ahead to the rescue! This app looks and works great. I like the layout and how you can see the number of days between countdowns. Being able to choose custom patterns for each countdown is a nice touch. The only issue I have is being able to bring myself to paying monthly, yearly, or such a high lifetime price for a countdown app. I use it as a nice to have, but not a necessity. While I can justify paying for a finance app or even a Twitter app, I have a hard time justifying paying a subscription for a countdown app. It’s possible that I might change my mind as the app is updated, but as of right now, I’ll remain a free user.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the kind review David, and I totally understand if the price feels a bit steep for some right now. I hope to win you over with lots of fun updates over the next few months!
App Privacy
The developer, Daniel Gauthier, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Daniel Gauthier
- Size
- 29.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Daniel Gauthier
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Up Ahead Plus $1.49
- Up Ahead Plus $9.99
- Up Ahead Plus $29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.