Flash sales
Put the deadline inside the email. The clock does the nagging for you.
CountdownGIF
The email countdown timer that makes “later” mean now.
Paste one image tag. Every open shows the real time left. Free up to 25,000 views a month.
Live on this page
Deadlines sell. Make yours impossible to ignore.
--DaysDays
--HrsHours
--MinMinutes
--SecSeconds
Every timer image above and below is counting to this same moment. That is exactly what your subscribers see when they open.
Any deadline. Any send.
Deal of the day
?d=2026-11-27One tag for every daily send. Change the date in the URL and it runs to 11:59:59 PM.
Product launches
Count down to the drop so your list is ready the second it goes live.
Holiday sales
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the last day to ship before Christmas. Every date that sells.
Webinars and events
Show exactly how long until doors open, so nobody misses the start.
Shipping cut-offs
Order in the next 3 hours, it ships today. Make the cut-off impossible to miss.
Five styles. All of them live.
Every one below is the real GIF your subscribers get. Show days, or hide them for short sales.
Live in minutes.
- Design.
Pick a style, set the end date and time, and watch the live preview update as you go.
- Copy.
One click copies the image tag. That tag is the whole integration.
<img src="https://countdowngif.com/t/your-timer" alt="Sale ends soon"> - Paste.
Drop it into any email platform that takes HTML or an image URL. Send. It counts down on every open.
Built for the inbox.
Works in every inbox
Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Yahoo
A plain image tag. Nothing to break.
Right in Outlook desktop
Outlook shows only the first frame, so our first frame is always the correct time.
Never a broken image
Ended timers show zeros. Archived timers turn into an invisible pixel.
Small, fast GIFs
About 10 to 18 KB each, so the email loads before the reader scrolls.
Built for the send
Five styles
Classic circles, soft circles, blue boxes, red boxes, black flip. Days on or off.
Live preview, one-click copy
See the timer as you build it, then copy the tag.
Your time zone
Set it once per account. Every timer ends at your local date and time.
Daily timers
One tag counts to midnight on whatever date sits in the URL.
Built for the team
Open counts
Opens per timer per day. No personal data collected.
Teammates
Invite your team into one account.
Your own image domain
Serve timers from timer.yourbrand.com on Growth and Scale.
Coming soon
- Personal deadlines per recipient (coming soon)
- Brand colors and fonts (coming soon)
- Expired image or message (coming soon)
- Click-through link (coming soon)
- Klaviyo and Mailchimp guides (coming soon)
- API (coming soon)
Same job. Fraction of the price.
Motion Mail
$200
a month for 2.8M views
About 7.1¢ per 1,000 views
CountdownGIF Scale
$69
a month for 5M views
About 1.4¢ per 1,000 views
$131 less every month, with 2.2M more views. Need fewer? Growth is $29 for 1M.
Pay for views. Nothing else.
Free
Try it on a real send.
$0forever
25,000 views a month
- Unlimited timers
- All five styles
- Small countdowngif.com credit under the timer
Starter
For a steady weekly list.
$9/month
150,000 views a month
- Unlimited timers
- No credit line
- Open counts per timer
Most popular
Growth
For brands that send daily.
$29/month
1,000,000 views a month
- Everything in Starter
- Custom image domain
- 5 team seats
Scale
For big lists and big days.
$69/month
5,000,000 views a month
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited seats
- Priority support
A view is one load of a timer image. Timers are unlimited on every plan.
Questions, answered.
Does it work in Outlook?
Yes. Outlook desktop shows only the first frame of any GIF, so we make the first frame the correct time at the moment the email is opened. Readers never see a wrong number.
Does it work in Gmail?
Yes. Gmail plays the GIF and the timer counts down live, just like Apple Mail and Yahoo.
Which email platforms can I use?
Any platform that lets you paste HTML or add an image by URL. That covers Klaviyo, Mailchimp and nearly every other email service. Step-by-step guides are coming soon.
What counts as a view?
One view is one load of a timer image. If a subscriber opens the same email twice, that is two views. Timers themselves are unlimited.
What happens after the timer ends?
It shows zeros, cleanly. No broken image, no error. If you archive a timer, it turns into an invisible 1x1 pixel.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on Growth and Scale. Your timers load from an address like timer.yourbrand.com instead of ours.
Start the clock.
Get started free
Your first 25,000 views every month are free. No setup beyond one image tag.