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Visual timer: see how much time is left
Ten minutes is hard to feel, and numbers that tick down do not help everyone. This page shows time as a shape: a colored disc that gets smaller as the time runs, until nothing is left. For homework, a shower, a turn on the game, a break, getting out the door, or a job you only have to do for five minutes. You can hide the numbers and watch only the disc.
Good to know
How to read the disc
The whole disc is the whole time you set, whether that is 2 minutes or 2 hours. It empties clockwise from the top, the way the hand of a clock moves. Half a disc is half the time. The four small marks around it show the quarters.
At the end the disc is empty, the words “Time is up” show, and the frame takes the color of the disc. Nothing flashes.
- Pause stops the time, and Go on picks it up where it stopped.
- Add 1 minute makes the whole time one minute longer, so the disc grows a little.
- Fill the screen shows only the disc, to stand a phone or a tablet where everyone can see it.
- A few words above the disc say what the time is for.
How the page counts
The page takes the time from the clock of your device. When you press Start it works out the moment the time ends, and four times a second it compares that moment with the clock. So if the page was behind another one, or the screen went dark, the disc shows the right time when you come back to it.
The sound is another matter. A page that is not on the screen may be held back by the browser, and then the sound comes late or does not come. Use this page as something to look at, not as an alarm.
A time in the address. Add #10 to the address of this page and it opens set to 10 minutes; #2:30 is 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It does not start by itself: you press Start.
Every time the page is built, a program checks 42 examples worked by hand and then makes 2,000 made-up times. A second program reads each drawn disc back into a share of the circle, and the numbers back into seconds, and both have to match what went in.
What this page does not do
- It does not ring like an alarm clock. The sound is off unless you tick it. It is three soft notes, played once.
- It does not wake a sleeping phone, and it is not for anything where being late could hurt, like medicine or a pot on the stove.
- It does not keep the screen on unless you tick that box and the browser agrees. When the browser says no, the page tells you.
- It counts one time, from 1 second to 180 minutes. No list of times, and no repeating.
- It keeps nothing. Open the page again and it is back at 5 minutes.
- It has no opinion on how long anything ought to take. The time is yours to pick.
Tools that go with this
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- My day: a plan for the day in pictures and words.
- When to leave: work back from the time you have to be there.
- Energy budget: plan a day around the energy you have.
- Steady sound: a soft noise to cover other noise.
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- All the free tools, and how to save them on your phone.
The tool and the wording around it were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). There is no AI inside this tool: it only compares two times and draws a disc. It has been checked by a program in one browser (Chromium): the disc, the pause, the added minute, the full screen and the end. The test browser refused to keep the screen on, so that box has only been seen being told no. The program saw the page start its three notes, but no person has listened to them, and nobody has tried the page on a real phone or with a screen reader yet. The Spanish has not been read by a native speaker. It keeps nothing, so it has no line on My data on this device. Also in Spanish: Temporizador visual. Found a mistake? Email [email protected].