A Mailtimers alternative for your email countdown timers

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

Mailtimers and Kauntodaun side by side

Checked October 1, 2026. Monthly billing. Mailtimers says its prices include taxes; Kauntodaun's exclude applicable taxes.

The Mailtimers FAQ still says "starting at just $7.99." The $9.95 figure comes from the price API of Paddle, the payment platform it bills through, queried with the product IDs on its own pricing page.

Where Mailtimers beats Kauntodaun

• Free volume. 100,000 views a month without paying. If you're fine with its branding on the GIF, that covers a large campaign that would go past 25,000 impressions on Kauntodaun and show our line of text.
• Klaviyo. Klaviyo's help article on countdown timers walks through Mailtimers step by step as its example. We're not mentioned there.
• Your own font. Uploading a TTF file is a Startup feature, so a brand font that isn't on Google Fonts works. Kauntodaun doesn't accept font files: Starter gives you any Google Fonts family.
• Evergreen from the send. Its site describes an evergreen timer that counts from the open or from when the email was sent. Ours only counts from the open.
• More languages. Timer labels come in more than 30 languages and the site in 11. We ship default labels in 7, though you can type your own.
• Higher-tier features. Photoshop-built timers and views that roll over month to month from Business, and local time zone detection from Corporation.
• Track record. Its site says more than 50,000 companies use it. Our generator has been running since March 2026.

Where Kauntodaun fits better

• No branding on mid-size sends. Up to 25,000 impressions a month per timer, the GIF stays clean. On Mailtimers, the free plan is branded from the first view.
• Far-off dates without paying. A countdown to an event two months away goes past the 30-day cap on its free plan. On ours, it doesn't.
• No signup. You copy the code with no account and no email address.
• The basics, for free. Transparent backgrounds and evergreen timers that count from each open are on our free plan. On Mailtimers they're paid.
• Cheaper per-recipient evergreen. Starter costs $7 for 200,000 impressions. On Mailtimers, evergreen starts at Startup, $9.95 for 150,000 views.
• Background images on the entry plan. They're on Starter. On Mailtimers they start at Startup+, $19.95.

How to move from Mailtimers to Kauntodaun

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

2. Recreate the timer. For a fixed date, use the same date and time zone. For an evergreen timer, create one with the same duration. Copy the design and the expired message too.

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

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

5. 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)
   • Brevo: ?rid={{ contact.EMAIL }}
   • MailerLite: ?rid={$email}
   • Omnisend: ?rid=[[contact.email]]

   Other platforms are on the evergreen countdown timer page.

6. 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.

7. Don't close Mailtimers yet. Emails already sent keep loading the GIF from Mailtimers. Keep the account until those timers expire.

Step-by-step instructions for each platform are in our Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Brevo guides.

How we checked

We read the Mailtimers homepage and pricing page on October 1, 2026, taking the included and not-included marks in its table from the HTML. Its page renders prices with JavaScript, so we queried Paddle's public price API with its product IDs, for a US customer. We didn't create a Mailtimers 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. Mailtimers also appears next to six other tools in our comparison of free email countdown timers.