Visual Timer
Watch the time disappear. The coloured disc shrinks until it’s gone — then it rings.
Free from Ticka — the reminder app that rings like an alarm, even on silent. Need it away from the screen? In Ticka the timer sits inside your task and reminds you what’s next. App Store → Google Play → App Store → Google Play →
This timer lives in this tab. On a phone, Ticka shows the same shrinking time on the lock screen while you do the thing — and rings even on silent when it’s done.
Seeing time instead of reading it
“Ten minutes left” is a number you have to translate. A disc that is a sixth full needs no translation: you see how much is gone and how much remains, in one glance, without doing sums. That is the whole idea of a visual timer, and it is why teachers, parents and many adults who lose track of time use one.
The best-known version is a physical one. The Time Timer was made in the 1990s by Jan Rogers for her young daughter, who kept asking “how long until?” — a red disc on a sixty-minute face that she could simply watch shrink. The design has barely changed since, because it does not need to.
Two settings matter more than they look. Hiding the numbers removes the urge to check exactly how many seconds are left, which is its own distraction. And the face is always sixty minutes, even for a five-minute timer: a small wedge on a big face tells you honestly that this is a short stretch.