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A clean, easy to use, customisable Timer with text to speech (TTS) interval alerts
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This app was born out of necessity for a simple timer that would notify me at various intervals during a countdown. I developed this app specifically for use while creating digital paintings as part of a Daily Spitpaint challenge (time-limited to 30mins) . Feeling that this app could be useful to others, I decided to make it customisable for all purposes.
FEATURES
• Clean and easy to use
• Customisable timer duration
• Customisable Text to Speech (TTS) alerts at specific intervals
• Can be easily "pinned" to the Taskbar (Windows) or Dock area (Mac)
• Option to keep application always on top of other windows
How to "Pin" Talking Timer to Taskbar/Dock
The Talking Timer was created as a Chrome App so to that it could be easily "pinned" to the Taskbar (Windows)/Dock (Mac) for quick access, without the need to open Chrome. To "pin" Talking Timer for quick access, perform the following steps:
• Click to [Open Apps] in Chrome
• Click on the Talking Timer to run it
• Now Right-click the Talking Timer icon in the Taskbar/Dock area
• ...and select "Pin to Taskbar"/"Keep in Dock" option
Now you can quickly load and view the Talking Timer, without needing Chrome open!
Latest reviews
- (2023-08-06) David: I am reviewing my review yet again, Over many years, I have had various problems with this otherwise excellent app so I deleted it. In 2020 I re-installed it and it was perfect. In late 2022, it stopped working again. It just didn't do anything. Since then, it quite simply sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
- (2023-07-24) Lyss: Doesn't seem to work anymore. Doesn't even start and can't find an alternative. 😭
- (2023-03-27) Pikachu Ryan: Good for pomodoro with countdown voice with me who is ADHD & highly distractable!
- (2022-03-14) Brent Reed: Updated. See the end:::::I've been using this app for a few months and it was great. Then the window size for the app seemed to be shrinking over time. Now when I open the app the frame is so small I can't even seen the numbers or anything. It's just a tiny window frame. What happened? I tried deleting and reinstalling but that didn't fix it. Such a shame because it was very useful. Apparently I had the app running in the background when I tried to delete it before. I finally deleted it and then reinstalled it and the shrinking window problem was finally resolved. Thanks for making this app!
- (2021-09-22) Alex James: Great app
- (2020-09-22) Conor K: Excellent feature to add to the browser
- (2019-03-20) Mica Maik: i love it. Had been searching for sth like this for a long time.
- (2017-12-21) The Chalk Hills Academy: Really useful classroom resource!
- (2017-01-30) Егор Горыныч: Looks like everybody is looking for Timer extensions and not the apps... This is the only reason I can find this app is not in the top. Thank you, Paul!
- (2016-11-25) Mehtab Husain Arastu: Superb app ! Thanks Paul for making this. I constantly have to be reminded in life to focus on my priorities and this is a perfect tool for me to be reminded when my time is up while browsing and using the computer.
- (2015-12-24) Heber Cloward: For some reason it keeps taking the "Timer Start" value and thinking that THAT is how long it needs to count down from. So I put in start at 12.01 PM I typed it in at 11.45AM But for some reason the count down timer is counting DOWN from 12:00:59 12:00:58 12:00:57 12:00:56..... So only 12 more hours left until the next alarm that I set? Something went wrong here
- (2015-12-02) Ambient: Brilliant app. Easy to use and setup. Love the separate time announcements.
- (2015-06-30) Alexander K.: Good idea. Really like the spoken interval options. to me this is better then listening to a pomodoro ticking in the background.
- (2015-06-28) Anita Lee: I think this is just the type of thing I need for my home yoga practice! I would LOVE it if I could have more than 10 spaces, since I am working at 1 minute intervals, and want to do up to 90 minutes sometimes.
Statistics
Installs
2,000
history
Category
Rating
3.8571 (21 votes)
Last update / version
2017-09-20 / 1.2.0
Listing languages
en