Countdown — Visual Timer

A visual countdown timer you can read from across the room. Pick a time and a ring empties like a kitchen timer, ticking once a second, until your chosen sound says time is up. No ads, no account, works offline.

Countdown shows the time left as a ring rather than a number, so anyone can see how long is left at a glance — including children who cannot read a clock yet. The colour carries the urgency: calm while there is time, amber under a minute, red under ten seconds.


GREAT FOR

• Kids' routines: getting ready, brushing teeth, tidying up, screen time, homework
• Cooking and baking: a kitchen timer you can see from the stove
• Workouts: rest intervals, planks and stretches
• Study and focus sessions
• Classrooms, presentations and speaking time
• Board games, turns, and anything else that needs a fair countdown

Visual timers are widely used by people with ADHD or autism, and by the parents and teachers who support them: seeing time pass is easier than being told about it.


SOUNDS YOU CHOOSE

Hear it running without looking. Pick the tick — a real wall clock or tick-tock, a wind-up, wood block, soft tap, digital or water drop — or turn it off for a quiet room. When time is up, choose a chime, alarm bell, fanfare, marimba, music box or beeps. Tap any sound in settings to hear it first.


WHAT YOU GET

• A large ring that empties clockwise, with the time left in the middle
• 1, 3, 5, 10 and 20 minute timers one tap away, plus any duration you choose
• Save the times you use most as one-tap chips, and remove the ones you don't
• Pause, resume, reset, and add a minute mid-timer
• A steady tick every second, kept in step with the clock — or none at all
• Fifteen seconds of your chosen sound at full alarm volume when time is up
• Vibration, with a short cue shortly before the end
• The countdown on your lock screen, ticking accurately while the app does nothing
• Counting up after zero, so you can see how long ago it finished
• Light, dark, or follow your phone
• Keeps the screen on while a timer is running


WHY IT DOESN'T DRIFT

Most timers count down by subtracting a second, once a second. That quietly loses time whenever the phone is busy, and stops altogether when Android suspends the app to save battery.

Countdown never counts. It records the instant your timer will finish, then works out the time left from the phone's clock — every frame, from scratch. Leave it running in your pocket for an hour, let the screen sleep, or restart the phone halfway through: it comes back showing the right number.

The alert is scheduled through Android's alarm clock, the one kind of alarm exempt from battery saving, so it goes off on the second it is due rather than whenever the phone next wakes up.


PRIVACY, PLAINLY

Countdown does not request the internet permission. Android will not open a network connection for an app that has not asked for one — so this app cannot send your information anywhere, by design or by accident.

No account. No sign-in. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. Your presets and settings stay on your phone.


SMALL AND QUIET

Under 1 MB to download, and nothing running at all when no timer is set.

Requires Android 8.0 or later.