Introducing Sendtric
Sendtric allows you to create customizable widgets that enhance email marketing performance. By adding dynamic timers to emails and landing pages, you can give your marketing emails urgency, and improve conversions [1].
We’re best known for our countdown timers, but Sendtric also includes interactive polls, personalized images, and local weather widgets, giving email marketers a wide range of tools. Sendtric gives you full customization over labels, colors, backgrounds, and fonts – for a seamless fit with your brand identity.
Sendtric’s email widgets and timers are optimized for fast loading and smooth user experience. Countdown timers have no watermarks – even on the free plan (up to 10,000 views with no watermark per month).
With a generous free tier, 99.99% uptime, fair and transparent pricing, and total customization on offer, Sendtric gives email marketers the best overall experience.
What about CountdownMail?
Like Sendtric, CountdownMail adds animated countdown timers to email campaigns, with a selection of 22 customizable templates. It’s also a no code solution, compatible with all major email marketing software – just like Sendtric. It supports evergreen timers and personalizable timers for each recipient [2], but this is where the similarities end.
Unlike Sendtirc, CountdownMail offers no other widgets other than timers. The pricing structure is also highly incremental and confusing, and the free tier lacks essential features that would otherwise encourage email marketers to start using countdown timers in their campaigns. At the other end of the scale, it may be too simplistic for advanced users.
Sendtric Versus CountdownMail: Compare Features
Here’s a rundown of what each platform offers. It looks like a pretty level playing field on the surface, but there’s more than meets the eye. We’ll cover this in the key differences section.
| Features ↓ | Sendtric | CountdownMail |
|---|---|---|
| 99.99% uptime guarantee* | ✔ | ✔ |
| No watermark on free plan | ✔ | ✘ |
| Built-in evergreen & event-based timers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mobile-friendly | ✔ | ✔ |
| Professional templates & styles | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Apple Mail Fallback Options | ✔ | ✘ |
| Runs on secure SSL | ✔ | ✔ |
| No code | ✔ | ✔ |
| Multi-language timers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom colours and branding | ✔ | ✔ |
| Widgets: polls, personalized images, etc. | ✔ | ✘ |
| Add images & backgrounds | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unlimited views option | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unlimited timers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Free trial | ✔ | ✔ |
| Free tier | ✔ | ✔ |
| Subscription tiers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Premium support | ✔ | ✔ |
| Features ↓ | Sendtric | CountdownMail |
|---|---|---|
| 99.99% uptime guarantee* | ✔ | ✔ |
| No watermark on free plan | ✔ | ✘ |
| Built-in evergreen & event-based timers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Mobile-friendly | ✔ | ✔ |
| Professional templates & styles | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Apple Mail Fallback Options | ✔ | ✘ |
| Runs on secure SSL | ✔ | ✔ |
| No code | ✔ | ✔ |
| Multi-language timers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Custom colours and branding | ✔ | ✔ |
| Widgets: polls, personalized images, etc. | ✔ | ✘ |
| Add images & backgrounds | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unlimited views option | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unlimited timers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Free trial | ✔ | ✔ |
| Free tier | ✔ | ✔ |
| Subscription tiers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Premium support | ✔ | ✔ |
Unique features
Sendtric offers unlimited views on the free plan – 10,000 of which will carry no watermark each month – as well as access to all the other widgets in the Sendtric ecosystem. Unlike CountdownMail, Sendtric’s entry-level paid plan offers full custom colors, many different timer styles and 900+ font options.
Sendtric also offers powerful Apple Mail Cache fallback options including creating your own fallback GIF. You can read more about Apple Mail caching by clicking here.
Key differences
| Sendtric | CountdownMail | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | A platform for advanced email engagement. A full suite of interactive email widgets (countdown timers, polls, personalized images, weather). | Countdown timer tool with a strong focus on simplicity, A/B test results, and driving sales. |
| Key strength | Features and customization. Great for enterprises, SMEs and professional marketers. Gives deep control over branding and advanced timer types. | Simplicity. Best for users who want a straightforward, effective timer backed by a compelling case study, with a user-friendly builder. |
| Free plan | Unlimited free views. No watermark until you reach 10,000 monthly views. | Unlimited free views, but all free timers are watermarked. |
| Pricing | Starts at $8.25/month (billed annually for 1.8M views/year). Tiers go up to Enterprise with up to unlimited views. | Starts at $7/month (billed annually for 1.2M views/month). Tiers go up to $199/month for 10M views. |
| Timer types | Standard, evergreen/perpetual, unique user, dynamic (via URL), recurring. | Standard, evergreen, dynamic. |
| Apple Mail caching fallback options | Advanced fallback options including hiding the timer, showing a fallback image or GIF or creating your own fallback GIF. | Option to hide the timer. |
| Other widgets | Interactive polls, personalized images, and weather widgets. | None. |
| Customization (entry-level paid plan) | Full customization. 900+ fonts, any colors, background images. Higher tiers unlock expiration images, transparent backgrounds, vertical timers, and more. | Limited until higher tiers. 22 templates included. Full customization only available at highest tiers (Pro, Enterprise). |
| Ease of use | Very simple, even with high customization. Intuitive builders and copy-paste embed codes. | Simple. Designed for a “2-minute setup” with a focused builder. |
| Users | 200,000+ companies trust Sendtric – enterprise clients like Google, HP, Walmart. | 150,000+ companies use CountdownMail. |
| Target audience | Entrepreneur to enterprise. Companies needing high scalability, a variety of engagement tools, and detailed control. | Ecommerce and SMBs. Marketers who want a tool to boost sales. |
Key differences
Pricing
At first, pricing looks pretty similar – and CountdownMail [3] seems like a better offer. But look closer at things like monthly allowances, and you’ll see that Sendtric offers more at every level, including the free tier [4]. For the most advanced users, Sendtric offers organizational and enterprise-class solutions with sub-accounts, multiple users, and standalone API access.
| Tier | Sendtric | CountdownMail |
|---|---|---|
| Free | ✔ | ✔ |
| Starting price | $8.25/month | $7/month |
| Business price | $35/month | $39/month |
| Enterprise tier | Custom | $199/month |
| API | ✔ From $149/month | ✘ No API-only pricing |
| Tier | Sendtric | CountdownMail |
|---|---|---|
| Free | ✔ | ✔ |
| Starting price | $8.25/month | $7/month |
| Business price | $35/month | $39/month |
| Enterprise tier | Custom | $199/month |
| API | ✔ From $149/month | ✘ No API-only pricing |
Sendtric – Email Engagement Powerhouse
Sendtric is a fully featured platform solution for making your emails interactive.
If your email marketing extends beyond urgency, Sendtric offers powerful tools. Gather feedback with polls, personalize images based on user data, and show live weather. It’s a powerful hub for so many email engagement tactics.
For example, event organizers can use timers to count down to a major music festival, give live weather updates to attendees, and take polls on the artists they’re most excited to see. This data can feed into future events, and remarketing for popular acts. This is just one of the countless ways Sendtric’s email widgets can be used.
Even on their own, Sendtric’s timers are powerful, and highly customizable for specific automated campaigns.
Built by two PhD students, our platform is enterprise-class – serving clients like Google, HP, and Walmart. Our 99.99% uptime means that reliability and scalability are things you’ll never have to worry about.
We built our platform around the principle of simplicity and ease of use. You can create a custom email widget in just a few clicks – without any technical or design skills.
Choose Sendtric If:
- You need more than just countdown timers – you’re interested in using polls, personalized images, or weather widgets in your emails.
- You don’t want watermarks on your emails when you’re testing timers and widgets. Sendtric applies no watermarks on the free tier until you reach 10,000 monthly views.
- You require advanced timer types. Features like perpetual, recurring, or dynamic timers (via URL) are important for your automated campaigns.
- You are a large enterprise or high-volume sender. You need enterprise-grade reliability, sub-account management, and the assurance that major global companies use the platform.
- You want extensive design control. Even on entry-level plans, users can access 900+ fonts and options like custom or transparent backgrounds – essential for brand recognition.
Use Cases for Sendtric [6]
| Create recurring event reminders for webinars, online sales, or special events. | Enhance seasonal campaign effectiveness with visual, dynamic timers. | Run A/B tests on email campaigns to analyze the impact of widgets. |
| Boost urgency for limited-time email promotions to increase conversions. | Remind users about abandoned carts or expiring offers in transactional emails. | Integrate countdown timers into marketing automation workflows. |
| Announce product launches with countdowns, to generate pre-launch excitement. | Personalize emails for global audiences, with timers in multiple languages. | Deliver dynamic, time-limited links and personalized offers to email subscribers. |
- Create recurring event reminders for webinars, online sales, or special events.
- Enhance seasonal campaign effectiveness with visual, dynamic timers.
- Run A/B tests on email campaigns to analyze the impact of widgets.
- Boost urgency for limited-time email promotions to increase conversions.
- Remind users about abandoned carts or expiring offers in transactional emails.
- Integrate countdown timers into marketing automation workflows.
- Announce product launches with countdowns, to generate pre-launch excitement.
- Personalize emails for global audiences, with timers in multiple languages.
- Deliver dynamic, time-limited links and personalized offers to email subscribers.
CountdownMail – A Simple Timer Platform
CountdownMail’s entire value proposition is built around simple countdown timers.
The platform’s simplicity and speed are its greatest assets, and is ideal for users who want results without complexity. The free plan offers unlimited views, but it does carry a watermark, which Sendtric removes on the free tier up to 10k monthly views. This means that for testing and for low-volume senders, CountdownMail might be too restrictive at the entry level.
Paid plans are priced per month, with a specific view/month limit. This is a simpler model for many users – but the tiers are very incremental (six in total)[3], which can make knowing what you need confusing at first glance.
Use Cases for CountdownMail [5]
| Driving urgency for flash sales and limited-time offers in marketing emails. | Delivering dynamic, time-limited links and personalized offers to email subscribers. | Enhancing abandoned cart recovery emails to encourage checkout completion. |
| Increasing attendance rates for webinars, workshops, or events through countdown-enabled invitations. | Building excitement and anticipation for product launches with time-to-release countdowns. |
- Driving urgency for flash sales and limited-time offers in marketing emails.
- Delivering dynamic, time-limited links and personalized offers to email subscribers.
- Enhancing abandoned cart recovery emails to encourage checkout completion.
- Increasing attendance rates for webinars, workshops, or events through countdown-enabled invitations.
- Building excitement and anticipation for product launches with time-to-release countdowns.
Ready to Switch to Sendtric?
Sendtric may offer a step up from CountdownMail in a few ways. All Sendtric’s tiers offer more views and/or features than CountdownMail, with more tools and customization on offer.
Sendtric has the best reliability for enterprise, with 99.99% uptime and 10s of billions of views each year – so your email campaign won’t be ruined by a timer that doesn’t load and shows a broken image.
Try Sendtric now, for free – with no watermarks – to test if it’s the right platform for you.
Create your free email countdown timer
- Fill out the form with your desired countdown options
- Click Generate
- Confirm your email address
- Copy and paste the provided HTML code into your email template
- Enjoy your free email countdown timer from Sendtric with 10,000 free monthly views.*
No watermark – Up to 10,000 monthly views* on our FREE Plan
*If you exceed 10,000 free views in a month, a watermark will appear until the limit resets. Upgrade to remove it at any time. Paid plans never show a watermark, even if the limit is exceeded.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an email countdown timer?
An email countdown timer is just like the timer on your phone – only it in an email. Email marketers send them to customers, to build a sense of urgency to take action.
How do email countdown timers work?
A GIF is generated in real-time by the email countdown timer provider. You just paste a simple line of code into your ESP, which shows it in the recipient’s email app.
Can I customize Sendtric’s appearance?
Yes. You can fully personalize labels, colors, backgrounds, fonts, and more – to align with your brand.
How do I put a countdown timer in my emails?
Adding a Sendtric countdown timer to your emails is easy. Simply create your timer, copy & paste the code, and hit send! Follow our simple integration guides for each email platform.
Which email platforms does Sendtric support?
Sendtric timers and widgets are compatible with all major email service providers and marketing automation platforms.
Is there a limit to the number of timers I can create?
All plans provide unlimited timer creation without watermarks. Watermarks are only added on the free plan after 10,000 views per month.
Does Sendtric offer different languages?
Yes – Sendtric supports over 30 languages for global campaigns.
Who uses Sendtric?
More than 200,000 companies trust Sendtric for email widgets – including Google, HP, Walmart, and Hilton Hotels. Ecommerce brands, creators, marketers, event organizers, and agencies all use Sendtric to boost email engagement and sales.