Comparison
tikio vs CountdownShare
CountdownShare is a low-cost countdown tool that started from shareable countdown pages and website embeds, with email timers on top. Its prices are among the lowest in the niche. tikio is built email-first: personal and recurring timers, a link that stores the timer, and the same design on the web.
| Feature | tikio | CountdownShare |
|---|---|---|
| Price today | Free during early access (no credit card) | Free with branding; Basic $4/mo removes it; Pro $15/mo or $399 lifetime |
| Watermark on free plan | None during early access | CountdownShare branding |
| Email timers | Animated GIF on every plan | A basic animated email timer on free; full animated email GIFs on Pro |
| Evergreen (per-recipient) timers | Yes — a personal timer per subscriber, keyed on your ESP’s merge tag — on the free plan | On the Pro plan |
| Custom font upload | Upload your own fonts or use Google Fonts, at no extra cost | Not listed on its site |
| Recurring (local time, DST) | Daily, weekday or weekly reset at a local time, following daylight saving | Not listed on its site |
| Count-up | Yes, set up through the REST API | Not listed on its site |
| Edit after sending | Yes — change the deadline any time; emails already sent pick it up within minutes | Not listed on its site |
| At-zero action and smart link | Show zeros, hide the timer or swap in an image; a smart link sends clicks elsewhere after zero — also in sent emails | Not listed on its site |
| Same timer on your website | The same link embeds on your site as an iframe, in sync with the email | Website embeds and shareable countdown pages |
| REST API / MCP | REST API and an MCP server for AI assistants | A countdown timer API with separate pricing |
The honest verdict
CountdownShare is hard to beat on price, and its shareable countdown pages are a nice extra if you want a public event page. If email is where your countdowns live, tikio gives you more for free: personal evergreen and recurring timers, your own fonts, no watermark, and a deadline you can fix after the campaign is out.
Weighing more options? See the best CountdownShare alternatives or our setup guides for every ESP.
Last updated: 2026-09-30. Competitor details come from public pricing and feature pages — spotted something outdated? Tell us.
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