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Countdown
The time left to a date you pick, with a title. Totals in years to seconds, several dates, repeats every year for birthdays and holidays.
A built-in widget in EdgeOS, the desktop widget app for Windows 10 and 11. Put it on any monitor or on the CORSAIR XENEON EDGE, at any size, next to your other widgets. It's free, like EdgeOS itself.
What you can set
- Title
- 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.
- Message
- More dates
- EdgeOS 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.
- Change every
- 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
- Show the date
- 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.
- Lines
- Decimals
- Seconds are always whole.
- Thousands separators
- Progress bar
- 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.
- Title colour
- Number colour
- Totals colour
- Unset, the totals take the number colour.
- Accent colour
- The progress bar and the message. Unset, they take the widget's accent.
- Progress bar background
Parts you can restyle
Each part can be resized, given its own colour, font and background, or hidden, under Customize → Layout.
- Title
- Countdown
- Unit names
- Totals
- Date
- Progress bar
Common questions
- Is the EdgeOS Countdown widget free?
- Yes. Countdown is one of the widgets in EdgeOS Free, with no account and no time limit.
- Do I need a XENEON EDGE to use the Countdown widget?
- No. EdgeOS runs on any monitor on Windows 10 or 11, and on the CORSAIR XENEON EDGE in Desktop Mode or, inside iCUE, in Widget Mode.
- What can I change on the Countdown widget?
- 29 options, such as title, date and time, repeat every year and when the date comes. They're grouped as event, more dates, design, totals, progress, fonts and colours. Every widget also takes your own font, text size and look.
- Can I move or hide parts of the Countdown widget?
- Yes. Its parts (title, countdown, unit names, totals, date and progress bar) can each be resized, restyled or hidden under Customize → Layout.