Settings
What Days Until does for you: Home, reminders, dates, events, sharing, privacy and your data. How it looks is in Customize; your name and account are in Profile.
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Home and start
What opens first and what Home shows.
When you open the site or the app. The logo still takes you Home.
Drag by the dots, or use the arrows.
Accessibility and language
Make it easier to read, calmer, or in your language.
Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed for low vision readers.
Countdowns, dates, numbers and the main menus. Translations still need checking by native speakers. Reload after changing.
Sound, confetti and how long the big numbers show are in Customize › Motion and celebration.
New countdowns
What a new countdown starts with. You can still change each one.
Hours and minutes count back from the time you set (midnight if there isn’t one).
Links and pages (3)
How links open and what a page does when you arrive.
On this device (3)
Screen, touch, typing and printing on this device.
Dates and time
How dates and times are written.
Countdowns to a set time use this zone. Friends see them in theirs.
For the Calendar.
For the weather on trip countdowns.
Events
Which events you see.
Your public holidays (for workday counts and Home), and days that differ by country, like Mother's Day.
Their events are starred for you automatically, every year.
Reminders
A nudge before the day arrives.
Calendar subscription
One link for Google, Apple or Outlook calendar that always has your latest countdowns, friends’ birthdays and followed holidays.
In your calendar app, choose “Subscribe” or “From URL” and paste it. Local build: only calendar apps on this computer can reach it until Days Until is online.
Bring your calendar in
Paste your calendar’s secret iCal address. In Google Calendar: Settings, your calendar, then “Secret address in iCal format”. Apple and Outlook have a “Publish” or “Share” link.
Two-way sync
Your countdowns go into a “Days Until” calendar, and changes you make there come back. Events in your main calendar with ⏳ or #countdown in the name become countdowns.
Sign in to get your calendar link.
Paydays and school terms
For counting in paydays or school terms on any countdown.
If it falls on a weekend, we use the Friday before.
No emails or notifications in between. Leave empty for none.
Used when a countdown counts in school terms.
Every device
Settings live on this device unless you choose to keep them on your account.
Sign in to keep settings on every device.
Switches to the dark theme in the evening, whatever your theme choice.
No photos, no downloaded fonts and no motion. Automatic turns it on when your phone or browser asks to save data.
Privacy and cookies
What’s kept, and the two optional extras. Needed storage (signing in, your settings) is always on.
Read Privacy for everything we keep and who else is involved.
Your data
Signed in, your countdowns are backed up to your account and come back on any device.
Export makes a file you can keep, or open in another browser.
Advanced
Copy your settings to another browser, edit them directly, and see what’s stored here.
Your settings as one line of text. Paste it into Days Until on another browser to set it up the same way. It holds no account details.
Edit the settings as text (JSON)
Only known settings with the right kind of value are kept; anything else is ignored.
Working it out…
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