There are certain events where I would like to know, at a glance, how many days from the current date until the event. I don’t need to know anything more granular than the number of days for my purposes, but it’s fine if it has the hours and/hour minutes as well.
Think of events like an anniversary, a holiday, closing date for a home, a wedding day, an annual sale like the Steam Summer sale ( which I missed ) or Amazon Prime Day ( I also missed ), something that is important enough to you that you want the “day until event” value readily available.
I’ve found a few candidates , but not enough reviews or other feedback to distinguish any one of them as “the right one”
From the app store
Moment
Countdowns
Countdown timer Plus
Just to clarify, here is an example
You are getting married in 61 days.
You set up countdown timer for getting married in the app
In the macOS menu bar, you see the number “61”.
Every day that number decrements by 1.
Updates:
Disqualifiers:
Subscription Apps. I don’t use apps that require a subscription.
Requirements
I’m on the fence on the menu bar requirement. I found out that the Countdowns app has a “Today” widget which is just as good as a menu bar for my usage. The iOS app doesn’t an iOS widget which is a downer, though.
I have Moment. I haven’t tried Countdowns or WaitingList, but at least at a glance, I don’t see the latter two advertising the ability to put the actual number of days in the menu bar like you requested. I.e., they appear like they may be dropdown-only. Moment does have the option to add individual events to the menu bar.
It’s odd that the app Web page says See countdowns right on your home screen (iOS 14/macOS Big Sur)
But when I edit my widgets screen and search for “countdown” there aren’t any results. I wonder if I need the premium version for that. It doesn’t say that in the Mac app store page or the web page you linked. I’ll check the iOS app store page.
