A countdown that’s never a copy.

Every live countdown is: each time an inbox asks for the image, Flash Render draws it for that request and sends it marked no-store, so inboxes and browsers are told not to keep it. What can't change isn't drawn again: once the sale has ended, your ended message or fallback image is the same for everyone, so that one is kept and handed out.

Apple Mail Privacy Protection can fetch an email's images when it arrives rather than when it's read, and no timer tool can stop that. What you choose is what those readers get: a live frame from when Apple fetched it, or on Pro and up a message or your own fallback image instead. Every other inbox gets a countdown drawn when it asks.

Yes. A flashtimer timer is an animated GIF, so it works in every email client that shows images, which is all of them. Outlook on Windows shows the first frame rather than the animation, and Apple Mail Privacy Protection can fetch images early; you choose what those readers see, from a live frame to a message or a fallback image.

Flash Render runs across Cloudflare's global network, not on one server of ours, so a send that opens all at once is drawn in the data centres nearest whoever's asking. There's no single machine for your readers to queue behind. Your plan's views cover the opens, and paid plans can top up in a busy month.

A timer is one image, drawn close to whoever asks for it and sent straight back, so it loads like the other images in your email. Nothing runs in the email itself.

A timer is an ordinary image, like the product photos already in your email: no script, no attachment. On Pro and up you can serve timers from your own domain, so the timer images in your email carry your brand's address rather than ours.

The timer stops counting and shows the expiry message you wrote, or the fallback image you uploaded. Readers who open the email later never see a countdown to a deal that is over.

You don't have to take our word for anything on this page. Reload the demo, run the test on any timer you like, then try flashtimer on the Free plan, with no card, on a real send before you pay for anything.

There's little to move: a timer is one image link. Describe the sale and AI drafts the new timer, or design it in the editor, then swap the link in your template. Emails you've already sent keep pointing at the old tool, so keep it until those sales end. You gain Flash Render, a countdown drawn at every open rather than from a cache, analytics by device, client and country, click-tracked links and, on Pro and up, your own domain.

Only to give you view statistics, and only on your behalf, under our data processing agreement. When an email opens, we record the device, email client and approximate country; IP addresses and any subscriber identifier you add are stored only as one-way hashes. We don't build profiles of readers, and we don't use their data for anything of our own, advertising included.