If your church live streams its services, you know the pain: manually resetting a countdown timer every single week, or worse, visitors landing on your site and seeing a "We're Live" banner when you're not. Cowntdown solves this with a recurring, auto-resetting countdown widget built specifically for churches.^1
Set up your service schedule — one time slot or a hundred across multiple days — choose a service duration, and Cowntdown takes it from there. When one service ends, the widget automatically starts counting down to the next one. Styling is fully customizable (fonts, colors, messages, links) so the widget feels native to your site, and embedding takes just two lines of copy-paste code. It works on WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Churchly, Subsplash, Nucleus, and virtually any other website platform.^1
Cowntdown was created by David Crowson, a worship pastor and SAGU alumnus who also founded Churchly, a church website platform. Churchly was acquired by Ministry Pass in late 2023, where Crowson now serves as Creative Director & Churchly Lead, and he also runs Sons of Crow, a freelance design agency serving churches. He built Cowntdown after repeatedly being asked if a self-resetting church livestream countdown existed — and the answer was always "no."^2
Why Churches Love It"Our live stream increased 5x after putting the Cowntdown widget on our website!"^1
"Cowntdown helps us create anticipation for our upcoming online services, as well as keeps accurate information on our site automatically." — Michael M., Lead Pastor^1
"We've been searching for months for a solution to automatically resetting our countdown widget... then we found Cowntdown!! It's PERFECT!" — Sara K., Executive Pastor^1
Notable- Created by David Crowson, Worship & Creative Director at Real Church in Pinehurst, TX and founder of Churchly^2
- Churchly was acquired by Ministry Pass (Justin Trapp) in late 2023; Crowson continues as Creative Director & Churchly Lead^4
- Crowson also runs Sons of Crow, a freelance design agency for churches, and co-hosts the Hello Church! podcast^4
- Offers a free trial with monthly and annual subscription options^8
- Churches using a countdown widget report 2x as many people joining their live streams on average^1
- Web-based SaaS — no app download required; works entirely through embeddable code
