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Simple

Hi, I use this app to time rests between sets, whether they be complex sets or single set sets. If you vary your sets like I do the three large button timers are convenient.
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Great design, one major flaw

The simplicity of this app is perfect. But I needed to be able to do more than 30 minutes. That's the max you can set a countdown. I'm studying for the bar and need 30 min, 90 min and 3 hr intervals.

Not what I was looking for

This seems to be a fine app but it is not the type I wanted.

Too Simple

This app works fine but I wish it had more timing choices and some choices for the alarm. It's too loud for use in the library and much more insistent than is necessary.

Needs volume

Great little app except that the alarm is too soft to make it practical. Allow the volume to be adjustable and it will be five stars.

Great design and easy on the eyes

I use this app constantly, after trying a bunch.

For icing (I'm recovering from surgery)
For exercise - timing planks or bridges, etc.
For cooking, too.

Why is it SO much better than the native iOS timer?
1. Provides smaller increments(<1min)
2. Three customizable pre-sets for frequent use
3. Alert sound is 3 chimes and it does not require a touch to subdue it (unlike iOS). Perhaps a stove timer should keep buzzing, to keep you from burning your food. But for many other applications, you want your music or TV show to resume after you've had a chance to hear the chimes.
4. Doesn't have infinite number of increments. It has 1, 2, 3 minutes, but eventually skips to 20, 25, 30 min. This makes it easier to find a desired duration

It's also visually clean, instead of being like an airplane cockpit.
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Almost great

For the love of usability, please let us have as many circles on the screen as we want, set to whatever interval we want (ideally inputed with a keypad instead of a list).

Great for meditation

Perfect as a meditation timer - gently beeps four times and does not require hitting any buttons to make it stop, like the stock timer app does.

Love it! No ads, no clutter, straightforward!

I love this app! A big thank you to the developer. The app is straightforward, easy to read, easy to use. Screens are simple. Perhaps best of all, there are no ads or nags to buy anything.

Great timer

Simple and easy to use. I use this time on board games especially when you loose the sand timer or it clogs. Would have given it 5 stars if you could choose other alarm noises and increase the volume. One more thing it would be great if you could choose a countdown noise. For instance if you wanted the last 5-10 secs to make a noise for each of the remaining seconds as it can add intensity to a game. Apart from that, very happy.
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