Count down to anything.
Birthdays, holidays, deadlines, anniversaries, launches, the trip you booked months ago — pin the ones that matter to the top.
Mac · iPad · iPhone
Some things are worth counting down to.
Out now on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Five countdowns free — start counting the sleeps.
Private by design
Native on every Apple device
Pay once — no subscription
Kyoto Trip
12 sleeps from today at 9:00
Travel
12
sleeps to go
287:42:18live — ticking to the second
You're on the way93%
8 working days (United Kingdom)
The real thing — Dayception for Mac, exactly as it ships
Everything you need
Everything you need, nothing you don't.
A simple, lovely utility — not another subscription dashboard. The essentials, beautifully done.
On every screen.
Lock Screen, Home Screen and StandBy widgets — Pro adds a live one, ticking to the second — a countdown right in your Mac menu bar, and Siri — "how many days until my holiday?"
Sleeps dots.
See the wait, not just the number — a grid of dots, one per sleep, filling in as the day gets closer. Free for everyone, on cards and widgets.
Reminders that build.
Gentle nudges that ramp up as the day nears — a month out, a week out, the night before, the morning of.
Recurring, handled.
Birthdays and anniversaries roll over on their own — and Dayception flags who's hitting a milestone next.
Import from Calendar & Reminders.
Bring events and dated reminders in with a couple of taps — pick calendars, lists and a range, preview first. Free, and nothing is ever written back.
A card worth sharing.
Turn any countdown into a beautiful card for Stories or Messages in a single tap.
The shape of your year
Most countdown apps stop at "days until." Dayception keeps going.
Under every countdown is a real analytics engine. See where your year clusters, get smart cards that surface what's coming, break your year down by category, and flip any date into a count-up to mark the time since it mattered.
Insights — milestones, busy months and memories, computed live from your countdowns
Year heat-map
See where your year clusters at a glance.
Smart insight cards
What's coming, surfaced for you.
By category
Break the year down by what matters.
Milestones
"Turns 30 in 18 days."
Count-up memories
"3 years since…"
One app, all your screens
One app, all your screens.
Add a countdown on your Mac, watch it tick down on your iPhone Lock Screen, share it from anywhere. It all syncs privately through your own iCloud — no account to make, nothing stored on our servers.
The detail view — sleeps dots, the big number, “You're on the way” progress and working days, in one place
Adding one — title, date, style, category, icon. Ten seconds, tops
The live widget — ticking to the second (Pro)
Mac menu-bar countdown
The share card
Pay once
Pay once. Count down forever.
Five countdowns free, for as long as you like. Unlock unlimited countdowns and the full insights engine for a single £24.99 — or £14.99 while the Founder launch offer lasts. No subscription to count down to.
Free
£0forever
- Up to 5 countdowns
- All the widgets
- Mac menu-bar countdown
- Reminders & basic sharing
- At-a-glance days-until
Dayception Founder Launch offer
£14.99£24.99 once — no subscription
- Everything in Pro
- Exclusive Founder app icon
- Founder badge in the app
- £10 off the standard price
A genuine launch discount — available until 31 December 2026, then it retires for good. Founders keep everything, forever.
Become a FounderDayception Pro One-time
£24.99once — no subscription
- Unlimited countdowns
- The full year-insights engine
- Custom card styles & photo backgrounds
- Custom themes & app icons
- Export
Five countdowns are free forever. Founder is £14.99 until 31 December 2026; after that, Pro is a single £24.99 — the same prices in the app.
Private by design
Your dates are nobody's business but yours.
Dayception is offline-first and syncs only through your private iCloud. No account, no analytics, no ads, no third-party servers — your countdowns never leave your devices and your iCloud.
Offline-first
Works without an internet connection.
Your iCloud only
Synced privately — nothing on our servers.
No ads, no tracking
No analytics, ever.
No account
Nothing to sign up for.
Private by design
Native on every Apple device
Pay once — no subscription
Good to know
Questions, answered.
Do I need an account?
No. Everything syncs through your own iCloud — there's nothing to sign up for.
Is it really pay-once?
Yes. Five countdowns are free forever; unlimited countdowns and the insights engine are a single £24.99, with no subscription. Until 31 December 2026 the same unlock is £14.99 as a Founder — which also gets you an exclusive app icon and a Founder badge. Pro is yours forever; major new versions may be a separate upgrade.
Which devices?
Mac, iPad and iPhone, with widgets, a Mac menu-bar countdown, Shortcuts and Siri. (An Apple Watch app may follow.)
Can I share a countdown?
Yes — turn any countdown into a card for Stories or Messages in a tap. Pro adds extra styles and photo backgrounds.
What about recurring events?
Birthdays and anniversaries roll over automatically, and Dayception tells you when someone's hitting a milestone.
Can I import from Calendar or Reminders?
Yes, and it's free — pick calendars, lists and a date range, preview what's coming in, and import. Re-importing never creates duplicates, and nothing is ever written back to your calendars.
What's new?
Every release is written up in plain English on the changelog.
Start counting down.
Five countdowns free. Pay once for the rest. On every Apple screen.