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LCD timer for iOS

Read at a glance.

iPhone in landscape, the Countdown display filling the whole screen: amber theme, seven-segment digits glowing on black, 12:46.

Countdown shows the time remaining, large enough to read from across a room.

Download on the App Store

€0.99 · one-time purchase · iOS

01 — Features

From the lectern to the back row

LCD display

Seven bevelled segments

Unlit segments stay visible in the background, and a drop shadow marks the glass. It looks like a device sitting on the table.

On stage

The lectern timer

Countdown takes over from the conference timers placed by the stage monitor, the ones that tell the speaker how much time is left. An iPad on the lectern is enough.

Lock Screen

No need to keep the app open

The countdown keeps running on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. You can follow the time remaining without reopening Countdown.

Reliability

A countdown that doesn’t drift

The screen stays on during the countdown, and the calculation runs off a fixed end time, not a loop. Lock the phone, switch apps, relaunch Countdown: the time shown stays exact.

AirPlay

The lectern drives it, the room displays it

The display goes out over AirPlay to an Apple TV or any compatible screen: full-frame at 1920×1080, with no on-screen controls or chrome. The phone stays in control, and since a single countdown drives both screens, they can't drift apart.

Target time

Aim for a time, not a duration

Alongside the quick durations you set up in Settings, the "Ends at" control opens a date-and-time picker: the countdown targets a precise moment. Past 24 hours the display switches to days, hours and minutes, then back to seconds on the final day. This mode has no pause: the +1:00 button pushes the target time back.

Countdown's home screen on iPhone: amber display reading 05:00 on black, a row of quick durations — 1m, 5m, 10m, 25m, 1h — a Custom button, a Start button and the settings gear.

Home screen — quick durations and an immediate start

A television connected to an Apple TV, with its Siri Remote beside it: the Countdown display fills the screen over AirPlay, amber seven-segment digits on black reading 12:45, with no controls.

AirPlay — the display at 1920×1080, with no controls or chrome

Countdown in target-time mode on iPhone: 'ENDS 20:00' at the top, the display reading 03:06:27 with DAYS, HRS and MIN captions, a +1:00 button at the bottom, and no Pause button.

Target-time mode — days, hours, minutes

02 — Themes

Six panels

Four backlit displays, two reflective panels. This one is running: it is the same segment geometry the app itself draws.

Demonstration display

03 — Privacy

Nothing leaves the device

Countdown creates no account and asks for no network access. Your timers and settings stay on your device, and nowhere else.

  • No account
  • No trackers
  • No ads
  • No server

04 — Price

€0.99, once and for all

  • One-time purchase, no subscription.
  • For iPhone and iPad.
Download on the App Store