App foriPhone · iPad · Mac
Keep what matters in sight.
Count down to an exact date and time — not just a vague duration. A huge, glanceable countdown fills your screen, ticking down to the precise moment.
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Choose how time looks
Swipe the indicator right on the countdown. Each countdown remembers its own look, synced across your devices.
Tap a style for details
A look for every occasion — a cake for a birthday, a parasol for a trip, an hourglass for crunch time.
A deadline you can see is harder to ignore — and fun to watch
Keep the countdown in front of you — full screen or on the Lock Screen — and watch the remaining time literally melt away. Visible time is a classic focus technique: it makes an abstract deadline feel real, right now. Better yet, it makes counting down fun — the thing you kept putting off becomes a screen you actually want to watch.
See several at once on iPad & Mac
Turn an iPad or a Mac window into a glanceable countdown dashboard. Watch your nearest countdowns together in a grid — pick the layout from the bottom bar.
Right on your Lock Screen & Dynamic Island
Show your countdowns as Live Activities on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. The instant a countdown hits zero, an alert breaks through silent mode and Focus — and rings until you dismiss it.
Synced across your devices — and private
Your countdowns stay perfectly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your private iCloud account — each keeping its own chosen visualization. Nothing is sent to us. No account needed. Your data is yours.
- Synced via private iCloud
- Nothing sent to our servers
- No account required
Make it yours
Pick a digit font — from a clean system face to a retro seven-segment LCD — and tint the whole app with a preset accent color or any color you choose.
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Loved by people watching the clock
- ★★★★★
I set my thesis deadline and put the hourglass on my Lock Screen. Seeing the sand drain every time I check my phone did more for my focus than any to-do app.
- ★★★★★
My ADHD brain needs time to be visible. The shrinking disc finally makes deadlines feel real instead of some abstract 'later'.
- ★★★★★
We have a countdown to the wedding with the cake, and one to the honeymoon flight with the beach parasol. My fiancée checks it every morning.
- ★★★★★
I travel constantly and keep a countdown per trip on my iPad grid. One glance and I know what's next. The iCloud sync just works.
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It's the rare app that looks like Apple made it. The hourglass on an old iPad as an always-on desk display is genuinely beautiful.
- ★★★★★
Exam season is bearable now. A countdown per subject, each with its own visualization, all synced from my Mac to my phone.
Speaks your language
InSight Countdown is available in 15 languages.