How long until you retire, down to the minute
Set the date you finish and the app does the rest. You get the days, hours and minutes remaining, and a progress bar that starts moving from the day you set it up rather than sitting empty for months.
You can turn the seconds off if watching them tick is too much, or turn hours and minutes off as well and keep it to a single number.
The day count and the home screen widget are free forever.
Working days left, not calendar days
There is a large difference between 1,587 days and the number of times you actually have to go to work. Switch to workdays and the count drops to the days you are genuinely rostered on, with weekends, public holidays and booked leave already removed.
It also totals the hours you have left at work, based on the length of your working day. That is usually the number people end up quoting to each other.
Public holiday presets are included for the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and Europe, and you can add your own company shutdown days.
Your actual working pattern, including shifts
Not everyone works Monday to Friday. If you do a nine-day fortnight, four-on-four-off, or any repeating shift rota, set the length of the cycle, tick the days you are on, and tell it the date the cycle starts from. The count updates immediately.
The app shows the pattern it has understood in plain words, so you can see at a glance whether it matches your real week before you trust the number.
Part-time patterns, compressed hours and term-time working are all just cycles, so they work too.
A bucket list for what retirement is actually for
A countdown on its own only tells you what you are leaving. The bucket list is where you keep what you are going towards — the trips, the projects, the things you have been putting off — and tick them off as you go.
It sits alongside the number rather than in a separate app, so the two things stay connected.
Milestones worth marking
The app works out the moments on the way down that are worth noticing: your last working Christmas, your last Monday, your final payday, the point where you drop under a hundred days.
They arrive on their own rather than needing to be set up, which is what makes them worth opening the app for.
Make it look like yours
Six themes, each with its own colour palette and its own set of quotes — coast, golf, garden, cruise, library — or use a photograph of your own as the background, so the thing you are counting towards is the thing you see.
There is a different quote every morning, which is free whether you buy the unlock or not.
One payment. No subscription.
The day count is free forever. Everything else unlocks once, for good.
£6.99 once
- Workday and hours counting
- Hours, minutes and seconds under the number
- A new quote every morning
- Shift rotas and nine-day fortnights
- Public holidays and booked leave
- Six themes, or your own photo
- Bucket list and milestones
- Share cards and backup
- No ads, ever
Try everything free for seven days. After that the day count and the home screen widget stay free whether you buy or not, so you never lose your countdown.
Questions people ask
How many working days do I have left until I retire?
That depends on your working pattern, not just the date. The app counts only the days you are actually due in, taking off weekends, public holidays and booked leave, and it understands shift rotas and nine-day fortnights.
Does it work with shift patterns and rotas?
Yes. As well as an ordinary week you can set a repeating cycle of any length — four-on-four-off, a nine-day fortnight, or anything else — with the date the cycle starts from.
Is my information private?
Everything is stored on your own phone. There is no account, no sign-in, and nothing is uploaded. See the privacy policy for the detail.
Is it a subscription?
No. One payment of £6.99 that never renews.
What do I get without paying?
The number of days until you retire, on the home screen and in the widget, for as long as you keep the app. That part never expires and never asks for anything. The depth — workdays, your rota, holidays and leave, hours left at work, themes, the bucket list, milestones and the daily quote — is what the £6.99 buys. For the first seven days you get all of it, so you can decide with the whole app in front of you rather than a description of it.
Is there a home screen widget?
Yes, and it is free. The number sits on your home screen so you can see it without opening anything.
What happens when I change phone?
Use Save a backup before you leave the old phone, then Restore on the new one. Your unlock comes back with the Restore option, since it belongs to your store account rather than the handset.