A MotionMail alternative for your email countdown timers

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

MotionMail and Kauntodaun side by side

Checked October 1, 2026. Monthly billing. MotionMail doesn't say whether its prices include tax; Kauntodaun's prices exclude applicable taxes.

The evergreen, URL deadline and repeat details come from help center articles last modified in June 2024. Its pricing page doesn't mention them.

Where MotionMail beats Kauntodaun

• Language per recipient. On its paid plans, labels translate themselves to each person's language. On Kauntodaun each timer has fixed labels.
• Deadline in the URL, on every plan. With the endDateTime parameter, each email can carry its own end time, worked out by your store or your ESP. We don't support that.
• Repeating for free. The Rep parameter restarts the timer every 24 or 48 hours on any plan. Our recurring timers are a Starter feature.
• API. It has a token-based API for generating dates from your server. We have no public API.
• Rollover. From Startup, views you don't use carry over to the next month.
• Mailchimp. It has a listing in Mailchimp's integrations directory. We don't.

Where Kauntodaun fits better

• No branding on the free plan. Up to 25,000 impressions a month per timer, the GIF stays clean. On MotionMail, the free plan is branded from the first view.
• No signup. You copy the code with no account and no email address.
• Per-recipient evergreen on the entry plan. On Kauntodaun it's on Starter, at $7 a month. On MotionMail, according to its help center, it starts at Startup, $60.
• More impressions for less. Our Starter gives 200,000 impressions for $7; Bootstrap gives 100,000 views for $10.
• More styles. Five free styles and six more on Pro, against its four designs.
• In Spanish too. The site, the generator and the timer's default labels also come in Spanish. MotionMail's site is English only.

How to move from MotionMail to Kauntodaun

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

2. Check the parameters on each URL. A timer with no parameters moves to a fixed-date timer. One with CusID and Hr moves to our evergreen timer: the Hr duration is set when you create the timer, and CusID becomes ?rid= with your ESP's merge tag. One with Rep=24 moves to a daily recurring timer. For endDateTime we have no equivalent: keep it on MotionMail 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 or code block; the URL tab, for an image block.

5. Swap the image. In each email, find the <img> tag whose src points to MotionMail 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):

   • Mailchimp: ?rid=*|UNIQID|*
   • Klaviyo: ?rid={{ person.KlaviyoID }}
   • HubSpot: ?rid={{ contact.hs_object_id }} (its docs don't say whether it's replaced inside the HTML module; test it)
   • Mailjet: ?rid={{mj:contact.ID}}
   • 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. Don't close MotionMail yet. Emails already sent keep loading the GIF from MotionMail. Keep the account until those timers expire.

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

How we checked

We read MotionMail's homepage, where its plans are listed, and seven articles in its help center on October 1, 2026. The included and not-included marks for each plan come from the HTML. We didn't create a MotionMail 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. MotionMail also appears next to six other tools in our comparison of free email countdown timers.