Try it — type below and watch it build itself

One sentence. A finished timer.

No sign-up. No settings maze. Type what you're counting down to and it just… works. Then Create timer opens the full studio with everything already loaded.

Draft tick.to/t/ Saved locally
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Our wedding
Goa · 14 June 2027
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How it goes

Type a line. Get a timer. Open the studio if you want more.

The homepage asks one question. The studio has no ceiling — and sixty percent of people never open a single Advanced panel, which is the design working.

STEP 1 · ~8 SECONDS

Say it in a sentence

"our wedding on 14 june in goa." We read the date, the place and the occasion, then tell you exactly how we read them rather than guessing quietly. No four dropdowns to express one moment.

STEP 2 · NO CEILING

Open the studio

Six sections down the left, your timer live on the right. Each leads with three to five things that matter and keeps the rest behind Advanced — with the count shown, so you know it's there.

ON A PHONE

Controls up, preview down

The studio inverts rather than compressing. Sections become tabs at the top, the preview pins to the bottom, and it grows while you're dragging something so you can see what you're doing.

The studio

Organised by what you're doing — not what you're pointing at.

Most editors group controls by object — Digits, Labels, Boxes, Colors — so making one thing red means visiting four panels. Ours splits at the top by task, then by element inside.

  • 01The preview never leaves the screen. Not on any tab, not at any width, not on a phone.
  • 02Nothing has an Apply button. Every change is live, and undo works everywhere.
  • 03Colour lives on the element that has it. No global colour panel that splits one decision across two places.
  • 04Contrast is checked as you type. A combination that fails accessibility warns before it can be published.
  • 05Timezones are stored properly. Asia/Kolkata, not GMT+5 — so a timer set past a daylight-saving change is still right.
  • 06The editor learns you. A control you open once gets promoted into your six-control strip next time.
One timer, many outputs

One timer. Everywhere it needs to be.

Set it once and it renders everywhere — from the same brand kit, reaching zero at the same instant. Preview any format before you publish.

Full pageTop bannerBottom banner Inline blockCustom pixel sizeResponsive Transparent overlay for OBSSocial cardAnimated GIF for email 9:16 videoPDF posterQR codeCalendar feed Slack unfurlREST APIMCP for agents

The six in colour are the placements you pick in the editor. The rest come free, from the same document — which is why nobody else can offer this preview toggle.

The part everyone forgets

00:00 isn't the end. It's the whole point.

Every other builder stops at zero and leaves you with a dead page on the most important day. Here, it's a first-class step in the flow.

Reveal

Swap in the thing you were hiding — the address, the link, the code, the announcement.

Redirect

Send everyone to the live page, after a grace period you choose.

Count up

Turn around and start counting since. Anniversaries write themselves.

Next occurrence

Roll forward to next year, next Friday, next episode. Set once, runs forever.

Webhook

Call your endpoint at exactly that instant, exactly once. A deadline you can build on.

Just a message

Or say something nice and stop. That's a valid answer too.

Pricing

Ticking is free. Forever.

Unlimited timers and unlimited views on the free plan, permanently. We charge for domains, email timers, automation and seats — things that actually cost us to run.

Free
$0
  • Unlimited timers & views
  • Every placement, incl. custom pixel size
  • Gradients, animations, all layouts
  • Hosted link + embed with a small badge
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$6/mo
  • Badge removed
  • Full font library, images & video backgrounds
  • Logo, CTA button, analytics
  • Private & password-protected timers
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Event Pass
$19once
  • 90 days of everything in Plus
  • Your own web address for the day
  • Printable poster and QR
  • The link stays online forever
For one occasion
Questions

Things people actually ask.

Do I have to make an account?

Not to make a timer, not to get a link, not to embed it. An account is what you create to keep a timer and come back to it later. Anything you build before signing in is claimed automatically when you do — it is never lost.

Will the timer still be right after the clocks change?

Yes. We store real timezones — Asia/Kolkata, not a fixed GMT+5 offset — and re-resolve against the current timezone database, so daylight saving and government timezone changes are handled. We also keep the original local time you typed, so nothing has to be guessed later.

What does "6 September 2027" actually count to?

A day, not a midnight. A bare date is a calendar day and we say so — "6 September begins in…" before, "it's 6 September" during. If you want a specific moment, say the time and we'll ask which timezone you mean.

Will it slow my site down?

One async script, no dependencies, under 12KB compressed. It renders in a shadow root so your CSS can't leak in and ours can't leak out. If you'd rather not run scripts at all, take the iframe instead.

What happens if I stop paying?

Your timers stay online and your links keep working. The paid presentation pauses and the page falls back to free-tier styling — we don't delete your work or break a URL you've already shared with people.

Still ticking

That timer up top? It's already yours.

Give it a title, pick a date, hit the button. That's it. That's the whole product.

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