About

A timer built by someone who needed one.

Untimer is made by one person who has used a focus timer every working day for years. The browser timer he used forgot his session every time he refreshed the page, so he built this one.

The story

Thousands of sessions, and one setting he never changed.

The founder edits video and produces music videos. That work takes twenty minutes to get into and every interruption costs him. He kept time in sessions of twenty five minutes, with a break between them and a longer break after every four, and he recorded every one. Over the years that record grew to several thousand sessions. The session length was a setting he could change the whole time, and he never did.

The timer that kept those records was a browser tab, and it had three problems. Refreshing the page cancelled the session. Leaving the page cancelled the session. And it did not work on a phone, because the phone put the tab to sleep and the countdown stopped with it. It also got slower every month, because every screen downloaded the entire history every time.

Untimer started as the fix for those problems. Along the way it became its own thing: one timer, one session length, a beginning you wind, and a record that tells you what happened. It was built for the founder first and tested on his own history.

What it does

A session, a break, and a record.

It records every session. How long you planned, how long you worked, how it ended, and what interrupted you.

It notices interruptions. One tap, inside or outside, and one line about what it was that meets you when you come back.

It keeps the task optional. You can make a task, with a guess at how many sessions it will take, and your sessions register against it. You never have to.

It gives the day an end. Set the end of your working day and it is drawn on the timeline.

It keeps twenty five minutes fixed. Every session is the same length, so there is nothing to decide before you start.

It records interruptions without punishing them. An interrupted session that ran its length still counts in full.

What it leaves out

It is a timer, and it stays one.

No points, levels, streaks or leaderboards. Untimer shows you what you did. It does not pay you for it.

No projects, calendar or integrations. Your work lives where it lives. Untimer sits beside it.

No settings labyrinth. You choose when your working day ends. Nothing else, because a screen of numbers to adjust is somewhere to go instead of starting.

No coaching. Untimer does not diagnose, treat or manage anything.

No trackers, analytics or ads. This site sets no cookies. The app stores what you record and nothing about how you behave. Plus is $1.99 a month or $19 a year, and that is how it is paid for.

No feature just because another app has it. Everything in Untimer is there for a reason that is written down.

How it looks

Peach is the time ahead. Sage is the time spent.

Everything visual in Untimer rests on one idea, taken from its own mark: sand falling from the upper chamber into the lower. That meaning holds everywhere time is shown, in the glass, in the mark that stands for one session, and in every chart. There is no red anywhere in it, and nothing flashes or shouts.

It is meant to feel like a well made object on a paper desk. The app has two themes: paper light, and a warm dark for late nights. The type is rounded, the corners are soft, and the motion is slow. If your system asks for less motion, there is none.

Contact

One person answers.

Questions, problems, or a sentence in the app that felt bad to read after a bad day: support@untimer.com. Anything about your data: privacy@untimer.com. Everything else: hello@untimer.com. Replies come from a person and sometimes take a day.