A CountdownMail alternative for your email countdown timers

The Kauntodaun team wrote this page, so we'd like you to pick us. That's why every CountdownMail figure comes from its homepage and pricing page, read on October 1, 2026. And the section on what it does better than we do is a long one.

CountdownMail and Kauntodaun side by side

Checked October 1, 2026. Monthly billing. CountdownMail publishes its prices in US dollars with VAT included; Kauntodaun's prices exclude applicable taxes.

We took CountdownMail's prices from the API of Paddle, the payment platform it bills through, because its page renders them with JavaScript.

Where CountdownMail beats Kauntodaun

If the badge doesn't bother you, its free plan does more than ours. Specifically:

• A free API. 60 requests a minute on the free plan, up to 600 on Enterprise. We have no public API.
• Deadline in the URL. Its "Dynamic timer" takes each recipient's date from the image link, so the deadline can come from your store or your CRM. We only store each person's start time.
• Per-recipient evergreen without paying. On Kauntodaun it's a Starter feature.
• Custom fonts. You upload yours on the free plan, so a brand font that isn't on Google Fonts works. We don't accept font files: the free plan has a curated list and Starter gives you any Google Fonts family.
• An image on expiry. We only show a message or make the timer disappear.
• Apple Mail. An option hides the timer from people reading in Apple Mail on iOS 15 or later, so they don't see a cached time. We have nothing like it.
• Teams. Users and permissions from the free plan. Our Starter has one seat and Pro has three.
• Two years of analytics from the free plan.
• Track record. It says it has delivered more than 20 billion timers, and its site comes in 14 languages. Our generator has been running since March 2026.

Where Kauntodaun fits better

• No badge on small and mid-size sends. Up to 25,000 impressions a month per timer, the GIF is unbranded and free. On CountdownMail, removing the badge costs $7 a month.
• Copy the code with no signup. No account, no email address.
• More impressions on the first plan. Our Starter gives 200,000 impressions for $7. CountdownMail's Starter gives 100,000 views for the same $7, though its price includes VAT and ours excludes tax.
• Cheaper overage. $2.50 per extra 100,000 impressions on Starter, against $7 on theirs.

How to move from CountdownMail to Kauntodaun

1. Make a list. Note the scheduled campaigns and flows that use a CountdownMail timer. Emails that already went out can't be changed.

2. Check which timer type you use. A global date timer moves straight to a fixed-date timer. An evergreen timer moves to our evergreen with the same duration. A Dynamic timer, with the date in the URL, has no equivalent: keep it on CountdownMail or create a fixed-date timer per campaign.

3. Recreate the timer. Same date and time zone, or same duration. Copy the design and the expired message too.

4. Copy the code. The HTML tab is for an HTML block; the URL tab, for an image block. In Klaviyo, use the Klaviyo tab.

5. Swap the image. In each email, find the <img> tag whose src points to CountdownMail and put in the Kauntodaun URL, or replace the whole block with our HTML. In a flow, repeat it for every email.

6. Add your ESP's merge tag if you want a deadline per person (Starter plan):

   • Klaviyo: ?rid={{ person.KlaviyoID }}
   • Mailchimp: ?rid=*|UNIQID|*
   • HubSpot: ?rid={{ contact.hs_object_id }} (its docs don't say whether it's replaced inside the HTML module; test it)
   • Shopify Email: ?rid={{ customer.id }} (not yet confirmed inside an image src; test it)
   • ActiveCampaign: ?rid=%SUBSCRIBERID%

   Other platforms are on the evergreen countdown timer page.

7. Test before sending. In your ESP's preview the merge tag usually arrives unreplaced; the engine ignores it and you'll see the full duration. Send yourself a test email, open it, wait a few minutes and open it again. With a per-person deadline, the second open should show less time.

8. Think about emails already sent. They keep loading the GIF from CountdownMail. If you downgrade to its free plan, views are unlimited, but timers carry its badge.

For step-by-step instructions on each platform, see our Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Shopify Email guides.

How we checked

We read CountdownMail's pricing page, homepage and generator on October 1, 2026. The features of each plan come from the included and not-included marks in its table, read from the HTML, and the prices from Paddle's public price API for a US customer. We didn't create a CountdownMail account or test its timers from the inside. Kauntodaun's figures come from our plan and engine documentation.

We review this page every three months. CountdownMail also appears next to six other tools in our comparison of free email countdown timers.