Turn the Year - Countdown

One screen. One number. The whole year, closing. Turn the Year counts down to New Year - and unlike a countdown that just sits there, it changes character as the year runs out. For most of the year it shows months, days, hours and minutes, with a small seconds figure ticking underneath. From 18 November the seconds take the stage. Switch on the Seconds ring and, through the final hour, a thin ring sweeps around the numerals once every second. In the last ten seconds the digits come apart into drifting motes and reassemble, and your phone taps ten times. Then midnight. The year turns with fireworks, and a celebration that is synthesised in the app from scratch - no two years sound the same. Or switch on Calm midnight and let the numeral simply resolve, in silence. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Two widgets: the countdown, which ticks on its own through the final day, and Year Progress. Nothing to configure. ON THE EVENING OF 31 DECEMBER If you ask for it, one notification in the final hour, with a live countdown in the shade; on Android 16 it can stay pinned as a Live Update until the year has turned. And with Wake for midnight on, the app opens itself on the stroke. FREE, AND PRIVATE No ads. No in-app purchases. No account. No tracking, no analytics, no data collected, and no servers of ours - there is nothing for this app to send anywhere, because there is nowhere to send it. It does not even ask Android for network access. The countdown needs your device's clock and nothing else, so it works offline, on a device that has never been online. IT DOESN'T GO DEAD IN FEBRUARY Swipe once for Year Progress - how much of this year has gone, as a percentage and as a day count. And through January the app holds the new year's numerals rather than immediately starting an eleven-month countdown nobody asked for. It begins counting again on 1 February. MAKE IT YOURS Five colour themes, from Midnight to Champagne. Seven countdown formats, from months-and-days down to bare seconds, or Automatic to let it follow the year. Bring an audio file of your own for midnight - an MP3, M4A, WAV or FLAC - with a head start and a fade so it is already playing as the year turns. Tune the motes and the waves of the celebration yourself. And a demo mode, so you can watch midnight happen in August. MADE TO BE USED BY EVERYONE The countdown is a single TalkBack element that speaks a whole sentence rather than a jumble of digits, with spoken milestones as the year closes. Every animation respects "Remove animations" and battery saver. The fireworks are capped for photosensitivity in the generator itself, not judged by eye. ONE HONEST NOTE If music or a podcast is already playing at midnight, the celebration stays quiet and lets it be. If you want it to play regardless, there is one switch in Settings for that. Eighteen languages. Phones and tablets, one download.

Turn the Year 1.0.2. A countdown to New Year that changes as the year closes: minutes most of the year, seconds from 18 November, a ring in the final hour, and fireworks with a synthesised celebration at midnight. New - balance your own song against the fireworks, and the screen says when battery saver keeps the fireworks off. Works offline - no ads, no account, no network access.