--- title: "New Year Countdown for Digital Signage | EasySignage" description: "Add a New Year countdown to your digital signage. It counts to midnight on 1 January, shows a greeting, then starts counting to the next New Year." url: https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-new-year-countdown/ --- # New Year Countdown App - [Open in Claude Ask questions about this page](https://claude.ai/new?q=Read+https%3A%2F%2Feasysignage.com%2Fhelp%2Fapps%2Fdigital-signage-new-year-countdown%2F+so+I+can+ask+questions+about+it.) - [Open in ChatGPT Ask questions about this page](https://chatgpt.com/?hints=search&q=Read+https%3A%2F%2Feasysignage.com%2Fhelp%2Fapps%2Fdigital-signage-new-year-countdown%2F+so+I+can+ask+questions+about+it.) The New Year Countdown app shows how long is left until midnight on 1 January, with the coming year in large digits. You don’t type a date: the app works out the next New Year itself. At midnight it shows your greeting, and after that it starts counting down to the following New Year, so you can leave it in a playlist. The app runs on the screen without an internet connection, in landscape and portrait, and in any layer size. _Note: The New Year Countdown app isn’t offered in video wall playlists._ ## Add the New Year Countdown 1. Open the playlist, then click the layer. See [Playlist Media Management](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-media/). 2. If the layer is empty, the content apps open. If it already has media, click **Add New**. 3. Click **Date and Time Apps**, then **New Year Countdown**. You can also find it under **Templates** and **General Apps**, or by typing its name in **Search Apps**. 4. Choose your settings. Every setting has a ready-to-use default, so you can click **Save** straight away and change things later. ![New Year Countdown settings](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/countdown/new-year-countdown-setup.webp) 5. Click **Save**. The countdown appears in the layer. 6. Click **Publish changes of this playlist** to send it to your screens. ![New Year Countdown playing in a playlist layer](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/countdown/new-year-countdown-preview.webp) To change the settings later, click **Edit** next to the item in the layer. ## Choose the date - **Show the coming year large**: shows the year you are counting to, for example “2027”, in large digits above the timer. It is on by default. - **Hours to show the end message**: how long the greeting stays on screen after midnight before the next countdown starts. The default, 24 hours, covers the whole of 1 January. Set it to 0 to start the next countdown straight away. - **Use my own date**, **Date** and **Time**: count down to a date and time you choose instead. With your own date, the countdown doesn’t move on to the next year by itself. ## Choose the text - **Countdown text**: the headline. The default is “Countdown to {year}”. The app replaces `{year}` with the year you are counting to. You can also use `{days}` and `{date}`. - **Countdown message**: the greeting shown at midnight. The default is “Happy New Year {year}!”. - **Units**, **Show weeks**, **Show the date**, **Language** and **Numerals** work the same way as in the [Christmas Countdown App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-christmas-countdown/#choose-the-text). If you keep the default English headline and greeting and choose another **Language**, the screen shows the local greeting for that language. Text you type yourself is shown as you typed it. ## Choose the look - **Theme**: **Midnight gold** (deep navy with gold confetti), **Fireworks** (near-black with firework bursts), **Champagne** (a light theme with bubbles, for daytime venues) or **Minimal** (no decorations). - **Animated decorations**: gentle movement that matches the theme, such as falling confetti on **Midnight gold**. It is on by default. It isn’t shown with a transparent background or with the **Strip** and **Badge** layouts. The countdown digits never move. - **Layout**, **Position**, **Timer style**, **Background**, **Background opacity (%)**, **Readability on a transparent background**, **Use my own colors** and **Size (%)** work the same way as in the [Christmas Countdown App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-christmas-countdown/#choose-the-look). The **Badge** layout doesn’t show the large year. ## Choose what happens at midnight - **Highlight the last 24 hours and 60 seconds**: in the last 24 hours the tiles change to the accent colour. In the last 60 seconds one large seconds number (10, 9, 8…) replaces the timer and the large year. - **At zero**: **Show the message**, **Count up**, **Hide** or **Stay at zero**. - **Time zone**: **The screen’s time zone** (the default), or **A fixed time zone** that you pick in **Timezone**. Use a fixed time zone to count down to midnight in another city, for example in a hotel lobby, and say so in the headline, such as “Midnight in Dubai in”. > **Note:** The countdown uses the screen’s own clock. If a screen shows the wrong countdown, check the date, time and time zone on that screen. ## Related articles - [Christmas Countdown App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-christmas-countdown/) - [Date and Time Apps](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-datetimeapps/) - [Playlist Media Management](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-media/) [Previous ##### Christmas Countdown App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-christmas-countdown/) [Next ##### Door Label App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-door-label/)