Retirement Countdown+ Workdays

Retirement Countdown+ tells you exactly how long you have left — and unlike a plain countdown, it knows the difference between days and days at work.

HOW MANY WORKING DAYS UNTIL YOU RETIRE?

Most countdown apps subtract one date from another and stop there. This one works out how many working days you actually have left: your weekends come off, your public holidays come off, and so does every vacation day and PTO day you have already booked. What remains is the number of times you still have to show up.

It also totals the hours you have left at work, based on the length of your working day. That is usually the figure people end up quoting to each other.

BUILT FOR SHIFT WORKERS AND ROTATING SCHEDULES

Not everyone works Monday to Friday, and most countdown apps assume you do.

Set a repeating shift pattern of any length from 2 to 28 days, check off the days you are on, and tell the app which date the cycle starts from. A 9/80 schedule, four on four off, three on three off, rotating weeks — if it repeats, the workday count handles it.

Part-time weeks and compressed schedules work the same way. The app shows the pattern it has understood in plain English, so you can check it matches your real week before you trust the number.

HOLIDAYS AND PTO, PROPERLY COUNTED

Public holiday presets are included for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and Europe. Add your own company shutdown days, and enter the vacation and PTO you have taken or planned. All of it comes off the workday count.

A HOME SCREEN WIDGET

Put the number on your home screen and see it without opening the app. The widget is free and stays free.

YOURS TO LOOK AT

Six themes, each one a different world with its own typeface and its own horizon behind the countdown: Coast, Night Shift, Golf Course, Garden, Last Light and Quiet Library. Three are dark. Or use a photo of your own as the background. No paying per wallpaper.

A REASON TO CHECK IT

A different quote every morning, a check-in streak, and the milestones worth marking on the way out — one year, one hundred days, your last full week, and your last working Christmas.

SOMETHING WORTH SHARING

Turn your countdown or the day's quote into a card and send it to whoever keeps asking when you are finishing.

IT DOES NOT END AT ZERO

On the day, the app says congratulations. After it, it counts up, so you can see how long you have been free.

ALSO INCLUDED

- A bucket list for the things retirement is actually for

- A daily reminder, if you want one

- Backup and restore, so a new phone does not cost you your countdown

- Works in your own language and date format

NO ADS. EVER.

Not during the free trial, not after. No banners, no video, nothing to pay to remove.

WHAT IT COSTS

Seven days free with everything unlocked. After that the day count stays free forever, in the app and on your home screen. Everything else — the workday math, your shift schedule, holidays and PTO, hours left at work, themes, the bucket list, milestones, share cards and backup — is one payment that never renews.

No subscription. Retirement is expensive enough.

COUNTING DOWN TO THE RIGHT DATE

Set your retirement date and the app does the rest: the days until retirement, the working days left, and the hours still to do. Not sure exactly when you are going? Change the date whenever you like and your countdown to retirement updates right away.

Whether you are counting down to your last day at work, your last working day on the schedule, or the date your retirement finally starts, the number you see matches the way you actually work.

WHO IT IS FOR

Anyone counting down to retirement: nurses and hospital staff, teachers, police officers, firefighters, factory and warehouse shifts, truck drivers, federal and state employees, and everyone else on a rotating schedule who wants to know how many working days are really left.