A countdown widget for your Windows desktop
Spacedash's Countdown shows the time left until a date you choose, on your Windows desktop, as a big number or a row of blocks. It's free and works offline.
Use it for a release, a trip, an exam or a birthday. When the day comes it can show a message, start counting up, or hide.
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What it shows
Two designs
Big number, or Blocks with one block per unit.
The units you choose
Start from years, months, weeks or days and show one to seven units. Smaller units can appear as the date gets close.
Totals and progress
Optional totals, such as the time left in years as one decimal number, and a progress bar.
A title and the date
The event's title and date sit with the count; on a long, low tile they move beside it.
Setting the date
Pick the date and time in the widget's options, in your PC's time. A new Countdown starts out pointing at the next New Year.
Switch on “Repeat every year” for birthdays and holidays, and the countdown starts again after the day passes.
At zero, choose what happens: show a message (“Today!” by default), count up from the date, or hide the tile.
Setups that use it
Launch day
A wide Countdown across the top of the screen with the calendar and your task list underneath.
Dates to look forward to
A countdown to the next holiday beside the Upcoming list and the weather.
Short timers are a different widget
Countdown aims at a calendar date. For minutes, a stopwatch or Pomodoro, use Timer.
What you can set
- Date and time
- In this PC's time.
- Repeat every year
- For birthdays and holidays: once the day is over, it counts to the same date next year.
- When the date comes
- Show a message · Count up · Hide
- Count up shows the time since. Hide empties the tile on the Edge. With Repeat every year, for the rest of that day.
- More dates
- Spacedash Premium: up to seven more dates in the same Countdown, each with its own title.
- With more dates, show
- One at a time · The next one · All, as a list
- One at a time takes turns (tap the tile for the next one). The next one shows whichever date comes first. The list puts the soonest first.
- Design
- Big number · Blocks
- Largest unit
- Years · Months · Weeks · Days
- Months are calendar months. Years and months: 1y 2mo 3w 4d.
- Units to show
- 1 (98 days) · 2 (98d 07h) · 3 (98d 07h 12m) · 4 · 5 · 6 · All of them
- Counted from the largest unit down to seconds.
- Smaller units as it gets close
- Units in front that reach zero drop off and smaller ones take their place: 3d 05h, then 5h 12m, then 12m 40s. With one unit: 3 days, then 5 hours, then 12 minutes.
- Alignment
- Centre · Left
- Date format
- Fri, Dec 25 · Friday, December 25, 2026 · Fri 25 Dec 2026 · 2026-12-25 · 25/12/2026 · 12/25/2026
- 24-hour time
- When the date has a time other than midnight.
- Totals
- The whole time left in each unit, a line each: 0.5612 years, 6.7345 months … 17,710,261 seconds. Looks best on a tile two rows high or more.
- Decimals
- Seconds are always whole.
- Counting from
- Where the bar starts. Left empty with Repeat every year, it starts the last time the date came round.
- Title font
- Widget font · Display · Thin · DIN · Condensed · Monospace · Serif · Heavy · Handwritten
- Font for the rest
- Widget font · Display · Thin · DIN · Condensed · Monospace · Serif · Heavy · Handwritten
- The count, totals, date and progress bar. The count and totals resize to fit whatever the font.
- Totals colour
- Unset, the totals take the number colour.
- Accent colour
- The progress bar and the message. Unset, they take the widget's accent.
- Title
- Message
- Change every
- Show the date
- Lines
- Thousands separators
- Progress bar
- Title colour
- Number colour
- Progress bar background
Parts you can restyle
Resize, recolour, change the font of, or hide each part under Customize → Layout.
- Title
- Countdown
- Unit names
- Totals
- Date
- Progress bar
Good to know
- Free shows one date per widget. With Premium a Countdown holds up to eight dates, and tapping it moves to the next one.
- The count is fitted to the tile: on one line, on two, or as a grid of blocks. On a long, low tile the title and date sit beside it.
- Totals read best on a tile two rows high or more.
- It needs no internet connection.
Questions
Is the Spacedash Countdown widget free?
Yes. One date per Countdown widget is free. Premium adds up to seven more dates in the same widget.
Can it count down to a birthday every year?
Yes. Turn on “Repeat every year” and it counts down to the next one each time.
What happens when the countdown reaches zero?
You choose: it shows a message, counts up from the date, or hides.
Can I show seconds?
The Countdown shows up to seven units, starting from the largest one you pick, and can bring in smaller units as the date gets close.