# Talkbeats: Speech Timer — Less Time, Keep the Point

> Less Time, Keep the Point (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/talkbeats-speech-timer/id6776309921 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 35 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-08
- Data updated: 2026-10-06
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/talkbeats-speech-timer/id6776309921/reviews.md

## What is Talkbeats?

Cut Map helps you shorten a rundown while protecting essential material and preserving a reviewed record of each cut decision.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Open Cut Map from Timer. Build an ordered rundown with estimated durations, essential blocks, optional priorities and transition notes, or explore the labeled example.
2. Enter the time still available, or explicitly take a snapshot of the running timer. Find a fitting cut map and review the proposed optional cuts.
3. Apply the reviewed decision, mark delivered blocks as you go and share the saved report. Start a fresh copy for another event while retaining the original decisions.

Silent presenter timers, segmented plans, haptic cues, Live Activities, rehearsal history, Coach, formats and script calculations remain available. Cut Map excludes delivered and previously skipped blocks, rejects stale proposals and preserves original estimates when applying cuts.

WHAT TO KNOW
Up to 30 blocks, including at most 18 optional blocks, per rundown. Durations are entered estimates of 5–3,600 seconds; available time is 0–21,600 seconds. The exact search minimizes summed importance of removed optional blocks, then excess time removed, then cut count. Importance is subjective and additive. It does not rewrite content, assess dependencies or guarantee delivery time. If essentials cannot fit, it says so. Timer snapshots are not live links. Up to 50 rundowns and 100 decisions per rundown.

iPhone and iPad.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.0.1 — 2026-09-30

A clearer App Store name and search details. No other changes in this update.

### 3.0 — 2026-09-14

Cut Map

Cut Map helps you shorten a rundown while protecting essential material and preserving a reviewed record of each cut decision.

1. Open Cut Map from Timer. Build an ordered rundown with estimated durations, essential blocks, optional priorities and transition notes, or explore the labeled example.
2. Enter the time still available, or explicitly take a snapshot of the running timer. Find a fitting cut map and review the proposed optional cuts.
3. Apply the reviewed decision, mark delivered blocks as you go and share the saved report. Start a fresh copy for another event while retaining the original decisions.

Up to 30 blocks, including at most 18 optional blocks, per rundown. Durations are entered estimates of 5–3,600 seconds; available time is 0–21,600 seconds. The exact search minimizes summed importance of removed optional blocks, then excess time removed, then cut count. Importance is subjective and additive. It does not rewrite content, assess dependencies or guarantee delivery time. If essentials cannot fit, it says so. Timer snapshots are not live links. Up to 50 rundowns and 100 decisions per rundown.

### 2.0 — 2026-06-30

Talkbeat 2.0 adds a Rehearsal Brief with script density checks, slide cadence review, risk findings, cue strategy, and a drill ladder. It also bundles 14 offline field-guide cards for pacing, cue load, slide cadence, Q&A buffers, remote rooms, demo resets, handoff cues, recovery lines, and trim passes.

### 1.4 — 2026-06-23

Introducing Stage Glance — a Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity that keeps your talk's pacing and time remaining in view while you present. Plus a refined speaking coach, cue-interval planning, and a full accessibility pass with VoiceOver and Reduce Motion.

### 1.3 — 2026-06-19

Talk Plan: break a talk into named, minute-budgeted segments and get a live ahead/behind pace indicator, current-segment header, a distinct boundary double-tap haptic, and a segment progress bar during the run. Plus the Coach screen is now reachable as its own tab, the Haptic-feedback and Keep-screen-on settings toggles actually take effect, and several timer edge cases (stop-during-finale labeling, stray finale haptics, and a leaked wall-clock timer) are fixed.

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