# Await - Menu Bar Countdown

Await is a native macOS countdown app that pins your next event to the menu bar and to a desktop widget, counts down in the event's own time zone, and celebrates full-screen on every display when it arrives.

- URL: https://swiftfox.studio/apps/await
- Price: Pay what you want (suggested $3.99)
- Category: utility (Event Countdown)
- Platform: macOS 14.0 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel
- Version: 1.1.9
- Publisher: Swiftfox Studio (https://swiftfox.studio)

## The big day, at a glance.

Await is a countdown for the dates and events you actually care about - a flight home, a release date, a kid's birthday. Add them yourself or let it read your calendar; the next one stays pinned to the menu bar and sits on your desktop as a widget, while the rest wait their turn in the popover.

### How it works

1. Add an event by hand, or let Await read your calendar - read-only, so meetings and birthdays show up without being typed in twice.
2. Give any countdown a note and a link. For a meeting Await finds the link in the invite itself, so joining is one click from the row - or from the notification when it arrives.
3. Pin the one you want up front; Await counts it down in the menu bar and on the desktop widget, and recurring events roll forward on their own.
4. When it arrives, each countdown does what you asked - a calm full-screen celebration on every display, a notification, or nothing at all.

## Features

- Every countdown in one list, with a note and a link
- The next countdown stays pinned to the menu bar
- Desktop widgets in three sizes, each set to any event
- Warns you ahead, then celebrates, notifies or stays quiet
- Repeats roll forward - daily, weekly, monthly or yearly
- Time-zone aware - counts down in the event's own zone
- Pin a calendar event, and join its meeting in one click
- Works entirely offline - nothing leaves your Mac

## When to use it

### A flight, a trip, a move

Time-zone aware counting means a departure in another zone counts down correctly rather than being quietly off by hours.

### A launch or a deadline

Pin it to the menu bar and the remaining time is visible without opening anything, down to the minute if that is the resolution you need.

### Birthdays and anniversaries

Recurring events roll forward on their own - daily, weekly, monthly or yearly - so the list does not need maintaining.

### What is already in your calendar

Meetings, appointments and birthdays are read on the device, read-only, so the thing you are waiting for never has to be typed in twice.

### You want it without the menu bar

A desktop widget in three sizes carries the same countdown the menu bar holds - the medium one adds the three queued behind it and the large one stacks four under a full-width countdown, which the menu bar can never show.

### You want it to work with nothing attached

Everything runs offline and stays on your Mac. Your calendar is read on the device, and nothing is uploaded.

## Frequently asked questions

### How many countdowns can I track?

As many as you like. They live in a single list, and the one you pin stays in the menu bar while the rest wait in the popover.

### Does it handle time zones?

Yes. Each event carries its own zone, so a countdown to something happening elsewhere is correct rather than silently shifted.

### Can events repeat?

Yes - daily, weekly, monthly or yearly repeats roll forward automatically once the date passes. A repeat can also skip, as in every two weeks, and end on a date or after a set number of times.

### What happens when a countdown reaches zero?

A calm full-screen animation plays on every connected display, then gets out of the way. Each countdown decides for itself whether to celebrate, notify, or stay quiet, and can also remind you ahead of time, from five minutes to a week before.

### Does it read my calendar?

Yes, read-only, if you let it. Nothing is added, edited or deleted, and nothing is uploaded. It reads the calendars macOS already syncs, so Google, Outlook and Exchange work too.

### Is there a desktop widget?

Yes, in small, medium and large. Left on automatic it follows the menu bar - the countdown you pinned, or whatever is next - or each card can be set to an event of its own, and the medium and large sizes list what is queued behind it. When a meeting is minutes away, the card offers to join it.

### How much does Await cost?

It is pay what you want with a suggested price of $3.99, which includes paying nothing at all.