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Something to
look forward to.

A countdown for every trip, concert and birthday, on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island as the moment gets close. Free, with no ads and no subscription.

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Free
Always
$0
Subscriptions
iOS · Android
Both platforms
Offline
Works anywhere
What it does

Every countdown, beautifully yours.

Create a countdown for anything worth waiting for. Give it a photo, a font, a color. Watch it count down right on your Home Screen.

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Count down to anything

Trips, concerts, birthdays, holidays, or something only you would think of. Days, weeks, months, or years and months. Your call.

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Home Screen and Lock Screen

Small, medium or large on the Home Screen, with your photo, font and color. Lock Screen widgets too, on iPhone. It moves to the next event on its own.

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The final hours

Inside the last stretch, open the app and the countdown moves to your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island, ticking down by the minute. (iPhone, iOS 16.1+)

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Every font, every color, free

Five fonts, any accent color, a photo from your library or from Unsplash, framed exactly how you want it with the crop editor.

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Share the wait

Send a countdown as an image to the group chat or your story, in one tap. Every December, a year-in-review deck worth sharing too.

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Import from your calendar

Anticipāt smart-filters your device calendar (iCloud, Google, Outlook) for trips, flights, birthdays and concerts. Add them in a couple of taps.

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Birthdays and holidays repeat

Set them once and they roll forward every year, including the holidays that move. A bundled holiday picker fills the date in for you.

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Reminders that make sense

A nudge at 30 days, 7 days, the day before, and the day itself, plus an hour before if the event has a time. Nothing else.

On your wrist

A watch app and a complication, so the next one is on your watch face. (Apple Watch)

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On all your devices

Your countdowns sync through your own iCloud. No account, and nothing on our servers. (iPhone and iPad)

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Yours to keep

Export a backup file any time, and restore it just as easily. Your events ride your normal device backup too.

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Light and dark mode

Follows your system setting, or set it manually. A calendar month view shows all your events at a glance.

Widgets

The wait, visible from anywhere.

Anticipāt's widgets keep your next countdown on your Home Screen and, on iPhone, your Lock Screen. No app to open. No tapping around. Just the days remaining, in your colors, with your photo.

  • Home Screen widget in small, medium, and large
  • Lock Screen widgets: circular, rectangular, inline (iPhone)
  • Your font and accent color, exactly as you set them
  • Advances automatically as events pass, and recurring events roll forward
  • Native widgets, no battery drain
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Your data, your devices.

Your countdowns live on your phone. There's no account to create, no analytics, and no HYTimes server holding anything. Turn on sync and your events travel through your own iCloud, the same place your photos and notes already go. We can't see them, because there's nowhere for us to look. Photo search and calendar import use the network when it's there and step aside quietly when it isn't.

No accountYour own iCloudWorks offlineNo trackingExport any time
The catch

Why it's free.

Anticipāt is free and stays free. No ads, no subscription, nothing held back behind an unlock. The studio makes its money on the paid apps in the Āpex Suite, and those are pay once, own forever. This one is just the good part.

Before you ask

Fair questions.

Is it really free?
Yes. No ads, no subscription, no in-app purchases, and nothing gated. Every font, color and photo option is included.
Do I need an account?
No. There's no sign-up and no login anywhere in the app.
Where do my countdowns live?
On your phone. If you turn on sync, they also travel through your own iCloud so your iPad sees them. Nothing is stored on our servers.
Does it work offline?
Yes, all of it. Photo search and calendar import need the network, and they step aside quietly when it isn't there.
Is there an Android version?
Yes, on Google Play, with the Home Screen widget. Lock Screen widgets, the Dynamic Island countdown, the Apple Watch app and sync are iPhone features.
Which iPhones does it run on?
Anything on iOS 16 or later. The Live Activity and Dynamic Island need iOS 16.1 and an iPhone that supports them.
What happens when the day arrives?
The countdown says TODAY, and afterwards the event moves to your past events, where you can still look at it.
Can I get my events out?
Yes. Settings has an export that writes a backup file you can keep or move, and an import to restore it.
Who makes it?
HYTimes App Studio, a one-person studio. Anticipāt is the first app in the Āpex Suite.

Part of the Āpex Suite

Pay once. Own forever. No subscriptions anywhere in the suite.

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