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Dayrift uses Apple's CloudKit to mirror your events into your private iCloud — the same iCloud that backs up Photos and Notes. As long as you're signed into iCloud on your iPhone, sync happens automatically in the background.

We never see your data. CloudKit stores everything in your iCloud account, not ours.

Long-press your Home Screen until the icons jiggle, then tap the + in the top-left corner. Search for Dayrift, choose a size (small, medium, or large), and tap Add Widget.

To pin the widget to a specific event, long-press the widget after adding it, choose Edit Widget, and pick which event to feature.

Widgets are part of Dayrift Plus (see What is Dayrift Plus? below) — a placed widget shows Unlock in Dayrift until Plus is unlocked.

Dayrift is free. Dayrift Plus is one optional, one-time purchase — no subscription — that unlocks Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and creating new pictures with Image Playground. Photos from your library stay free, and pictures you've already made keep showing.

If you first downloaded Dayrift before the end of September 28, 2026 (Pacific time), Plus is yours free — nothing to buy.

Bought it on another device, or reinstalled? Open Settings → Dayrift Plus and tap Restore Purchases.

Set an event to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Once the event date passes, Dayrift advances the date automatically to the next occurrence, so a birthday set in 2024 will keep ticking forward year after year without you doing anything.

The "original date" is preserved, so a 30th birthday in 2055 will still show that the event has been recurring since the original year.

Open Settings inside Dayrift and turn on Notifications, then Reminders & milestones. You'll get a heads-up before your upcoming events, plus a cheer when a count-up event hits a milestone — like 100 days. The first time you turn it on, iOS will ask for notification permission.

Use the Time picker just below the toggle to choose what hour of the day reminders arrive. Pick something that suits you — 9 in the morning is the default.

Don't want reminders for one particular event? Mute it individually when you add or edit that event, and it will stay silent while everything else keeps reminding you.

Open Settings inside Dayrift and tap Export Events. You'll get a CSV file with one row per event (name, type, date both readable and ISO 8601, days until or since, when a birthday or repeating event began, emoji, recurrence, notes, and whether it's archived) that opens in Numbers, Excel, or any spreadsheet tool.

The CSV is a snapshot for viewing — not a backup. It doesn't include colors, images, recurrence anchors, reminder settings, or birthday details, so it can't restore your events. Clear All Events removes your events from every device signed into your iCloud, so neither a CSV export nor iCloud sync can bring them back.

Open Settings inside the app and tap Clear All Events. You'll be asked to confirm, and the deletion will propagate through your iCloud as well if sync is enabled.

Uninstalling the app removes the local copy. To also clear the iCloud copy, go to iOS Settings → your Apple ID → iCloud → Manage Storage → Dayrift → Delete Data.

It moved to the Archive. A new countdown has Keep after it passes turned off, so once its date passes it leaves your list. Open Settings and tap Archive to find it, then tap Restore to bring it back.

To keep a countdown in your list after its date, turn on Keep after it passes when you add or edit it. It then keeps counting up from the day it passed.

Open the event and choose Archive from its menu. That moves it out of your list, your widgets and your reminders. To remove it for good, open Settings, tap Archive, and delete it there. Deleting from the Archive also removes it from your other devices through iCloud.

Dayrift can add holidays as events, with their dates already filled in through 2040. In the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore you get that country's holidays, based on your device's region setting. Everywhere else you get the US list. Dayrift offers them the first time you open the app, and you can switch them on or off at any time in Settings. Turning the switch off moves the holidays to the Archive, and turning it on again restores them.

Dayrift requires iOS 26.2 or later. Widgets and iCloud sync use features introduced in recent iOS releases.

Dayrift is made for iPhone and iPad, with widgets on both; there are no plans for a Mac version.

Just ask — “Hey Siri, how long until my Japan Trip in Dayrift?” Siri answers from the events on your device. Your events also appear in Spotlight search, and the Shortcuts app can use them in automations. No setup needed; it works as soon as you've added an event.

When adding or editing an event, tap Create with Image Playground. Dayrift opens Apple’s Image Playground seeded with your event’s name; pick a style, generate, and the image appears on your event’s card and widgets. Requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence, and Dayrift Plus to make a new image (photos from your library stay free).

Email Dayrift@crimson-io.com with:

— what you were doing when it happened
— what you expected to happen
— what actually happened
— the iOS version (Settings → General → About)
— the Dayrift version (Settings → Version inside the app)

A screenshot or screen recording is a huge help if you can include one.