Timer & Stopwatch
Set a timer by typing how long, as 5, 1:30 or 1h 20m, or until when, as until 17:30, and run as many as you need at once. Each counts down from its own deadline, so a hidden tab, a reload or a computer waking from sleep still shows the right time, and it rings after its window is closed. A stopwatch with laps sits beside them.
What it does
- Timers typed as you would say them: 5 is five minutes, 1:30 a minute and a half, until 17:30 a time of day.
- Several timers at once, each named, paused, given a minute more or reset on its own.
- Quick timers from one minute to an hour, each started with one click.
- The alarm is put on the audio clock as a timer starts, so a tab in the background rings on time.
- A timer still rings after its window is closed, and opens the window again so it can be stopped.
- A timer past its end counts on, as −0:42, and says when it ended.
- A chime, a bell or a beep at the volume you set, and a notification if you want one.
- A stopwatch to the hundredth, with laps, the fastest and slowest marked, copied as a table.
How to use it
- Type how long, or until when, and press Start; or pick a quick timer.
- Name it, if more than one is running.
- Stop the alarm when it rings, or give it another minute.
- For the stopwatch, press Start and then Lap, or use Space and L.
What it does not do
- Ringing with the page closed: a web page cannot play a sound or wake the computer once its tab is gone.
- A full-screen timer for a wall or a stream: pixeltimer.com is made for that, and each timer links to it.
- Alarms that repeat at a time each day: a page closed overnight cannot ring, which is a phone clock’s job.
Questions
Will it ring if the tab is in the background?
Yes. The alarm is handed to the browser’s audio clock the moment a timer starts, and hidden tabs do not slow that clock down, where an ordinary page timer can be held back by up to a minute. The tab has to stay open.
Why does it ask for a click after a reload?
Browsers keep a page silent until someone clicks or taps in it. A timer brought back by a reload is still running, but its alarm can sound only after that first click; the window says so and offers a button.
What does a number on its own mean?
Minutes, as on a kitchen timer: 5 is five minutes and 1.5 a minute and a half. Write 90s for seconds, 1:30 for a minute and thirty seconds, and until 17:30 or 5pm for a time of day.
Does closing the window stop my timers?
No. They keep running while the page is open, ring when they end, and open the window again so the alarm can be stopped. Remove a timer to be rid of it.
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