Countdown
The Countdown widget counts down to a fixed calendar date and time — a product launch, an event start, a deadline. Unlike the Timer, which is built for operator-controlled durations and stopwatches, Countdown is anchored to one specific moment.
Adding a Countdown
Click Countdown in the Widgets panel in the sidebar — it's placed immediately at the centre of the canvas, already selected.
Configuration
Select the Countdown and open its Design tab to configure it.
Name (for operator)
A label shown in the control app, so an operator can identify this countdown among others. Defaults to "Countdown."
Target
The exact date and time the countdown counts toward, picked with a date/time input. Interpreted using the timezone setting below.
Timezone
A searchable dropdown grouped by region — start typing a city or region name to filter. Choose local to always show the viewer's own local time.
For an event airing across multiple regions, set an explicit timezone rather than local — otherwise viewers in different time zones see different countdowns.
Format
Three presets, or a custom format string:
| Preset | Output example |
|---|---|
| Days + H:M:S | 01:04:35:02 |
| Total hours + M:S | 04:35:02 |
| Total minutes + S | 35:02 |
Choose Custom to build your own format from individual tokens (%D days, %H/%h hours padded/unpadded, %M/%m minutes, %S/%s seconds, %T as %H:%M:%S, %R as %H:%M, %E total hours including days, %F total minutes including everything).
Segment styling
Override the color, font size, weight, family, or style of individual segments — Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, or Separators — independently of the widget's base text style. Useful for making the separators more subdued than the numbers, for example.
Blink separators
Toggle the : (or other separator characters) to blink once per second.
When expired
The text shown once the target time has passed. Defaults to 00:00:00 — change it to something like LIVE or STARTED.
Prefix and suffix
Static text before or after the countdown value — for example, a prefix of Starts in or a suffix of remaining.
Bind
From the Bind tab, a Countdown can expose Target time, Format, Expired text, Prefix, Suffix, and Name as operator controls or data bindings — plus the fields shared with other objects (Font family, Font size, Background, Fill color, Stroke color, Stroke width). The displayed text itself isn't exposable directly, since it's derived from Format, Prefix, and Suffix rather than being its own value. See Bind for how exposing, locking, and control types work.