Ampulla · countdown timers

Deadlines that move.

Design a timer once. Put it on your website free, or send it in an email where it keeps counting down in the inbox.

No card required. Unlimited website timers on every plan, including free.

Spring sale
ends Friday 17:00
Website — free, unlimited Email — same design, still moving

One design, two ways to ship it

The same timer, delivered by whichever route the medium allows.

Free forever

Website

Paste one line into any page and the timer counts down for every visitor. Unlimited on every plan, free ones included, however many people see it.

Paid

Email

A countdown that animates in the inbox, which an ordinary website timer cannot do. Give each recipient their own deadline, so one campaign can end at a different moment for every person in it.

How it works

Three steps, and the last one is the reason people buy it.

  1. Design it

    Pick a look, set your colours, choose the moment it ends. You see exactly what your reader will see while you work.

  2. Paste one line

    Copy the line we give you into your page or your campaign. No plugin, no account for your readers, nothing for a developer to wire up.

  3. Everyone sees their own deadline

    Send one campaign and give each person their own ending, 24 hours from when they signed up, or the same Friday for everyone. Your call, per recipient.

Made with Ampulla

Four designs, exactly as they arrive. Every colour is yours to change, and there is no watermark on any plan.

A countdown reading 2 days and 6 hours in a plain sans-serif on white.
Subscriber offer Plain · light
A countdown reading 4 hours and 37 minutes in white on near-black, each unit inside an amber dial.
Flash sale Dials · dark
A countdown reading 11 days and 2 hours in an italic serif on cream, ringed in bronze.
Early-bird tickets Rings · cream
A countdown reading 18 hours and 4 minutes in green pixel type on near-black, ringed with dots.
Doors open Dots · dark

Pricing

You are billed on views — roughly, how many times your countdown was seen. Designs and website timers are unlimited on every plan.

Free

For trying it out and for web-only use.

$0

  • 10,000 email views a month
  • Unlimited web embeds
  • Unlimited designs
Start free

Starter

One list, sending regularly.

$9/mo

  • 250,000 email views a month
  • Per-recipient deadlines
  • Unlimited web embeds and designs
Choose Starter
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Pro

Multiple campaigns in flight.

$29/mo

  • 2,000,000 email views a month
  • Per-recipient deadlines
  • Unlimited web embeds and designs
Choose Pro

Scale

High volume, every month.

$79/mo

  • 10,000,000 email views a month
  • Per-recipient deadlines
  • Unlimited web embeds and designs
Choose Scale

All prices include local tax. What you see is what you pay, wherever you are.

We’ll email you as you approach your limit, and again if you reach it — so it is never a surprise. And nothing breaks silently in an inbox: past your limit a timer becomes a plain image, never a broken one.

Questions

Does it really count down inside an email?

Yes. It is a picture that keeps moving after the mail arrives, so there is nothing for your reader to install and nothing to click.

What happens when the time runs out?

It stops at zero and stays there. It never rolls over and starts again, which is the one thing that would make a late reader think they still had a week.

Can each person get their own deadline?

Yes. That is the point of sending it as an email timer. One campaign can end 24 hours after each person signed up, or at the same moment for everyone. You set it per recipient when you send.

Do I need a developer?

No. You copy one line and paste it where you want the timer. It works in the usual email tools and in any website that lets you paste HTML.

What about Apple Mail?

Apple’s privacy protection fetches images when the mail is delivered rather than when it is read, so those readers see the timer as it looked on arrival. Every email timer works this way, ours included. It is worth writing the date into your copy as well as showing the clock.

Can I have a dark version?

On your website, yes: make two designs, paste both, and show the one that matches your reader’s setting. The timer at the top of this page does exactly that. In email it is one design for everyone, because mail apps do not reliably say which way round the reader is looking at it, so pick colours that hold up either way.

What counts as a view?

One view is one time your timer is loaded to be shown in an email. Website timers are unlimited on every plan and are never counted.

Can I change a design after I have sent it?

An email timer keeps up with your edits, because the picture is made when it is opened. A website timer keeps the design it had when you copied it, so paste it again to pick up a change.

Ready when you are

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