Crews vs Time Blind Timer

Crews is body doubling that doesn't stop at the timer. Join a live session, say what you're working on, and work next to people who show up at the same times you do. Camera on or off, voice or chat only. When the fifty minutes are up, the room doesn't empty out – and neither does the crew you found in it. WHAT A SESSION IS A timed room with real people in it. Check in with what you're doing, focus together, check out with what you finished. The phases are marked, so a change of pace is something you feel rather than discover. • Live video and mic, both optional – a chat-only session is a real choice, not a fallback • Session goals come from your own task list; tick one off and it posts as a win • Observer seats: when the verbal seats are gone, slip in quietly and still work alongside familiar faces. Never a hard no. • A short reflection at the end – how the room felt, what helped – that adds up into a picture of how you actually work CREWS, NOT STRANGERS This is the part that never got better anywhere else. You meet someone who makes your Tuesday work, and then you never see them again. • Crews are groups that persist: chat, members, a schedule, pages worth reading • The conversation outlives the timer — crew chat between sessions, session chat open after it • Regulars you recognize, follows, profiles, and a feed of what your people finished • Boost a crew you're part of and the whole crew gets more: its own banner and color, more pages, more seats YOUR WORK, IN THE ROOM • Projects and tasks that live where the sessions are, not in a second app • Every list in one view, or one list at a time — fold away what isn't today • Unfinished work carries into the next session instead of quietly disappearing MUSIC AND PRESENCE • Hear the room's music, with the level in your hands — voices always come first • A status your crew can see: what you're working on, what you're listening to, whether you're heads-down ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR LOCK SCREEN • Apple Watch: the timer, mute, and leave, without picking up your phone • Live Activities: the session phase on your lock screen • Minimize the app and the audio keeps running WHY IT EXISTS Crews came out of 15,000 hours spent inside body-doubling tools by someone who loved them and watched them stay frozen: the chat that died with the timer, the great co-worker you never saw again, the "room full" wall in front of a host worth showing up for. Free to join, with five sessions a month. Membership adds unlimited sessions, hosting your own, bigger task lists, and boosts to spend on your crews. Crews runs on the web and the Mac too, and your sessions, crews and tasks stay in sync wherever you sign in. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.withcrews.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://withcrews.com/privacy

A timer that talks you through time. Built for the brains that lose track of it. For brains that lose time, a countdown that speaks so you do not have to look. Most timers are silent rectangles. For an ADHD brain that experiences time-blindness, that is the same as not having a timer at all. Time Blind Timer talks to you. It speaks check-ins at the pace you choose, in your own iPhone voice, while the screen stays dark and the world keeps going. Why people stay: - Audio first. Every cue is spoken aloud, not a tiny number on a screen you have to unlock. - Locked screen friendly. Confirmed background-audio behavior. Designed to work while you are doing literally anything else. - Your voice. Pick any iOS voice (Samantha, Daniel, Karen, Moira, and the high-quality Enhanced voices) with rate and pitch tuned per persona. - Your cadence. Adjustable announcement frequency from every 30 seconds to every 15 minutes, plus a Natural countdown that mirrors how humans warn each other (10m, 5m, 2m, 1m, 30s, 10s). - Elapsed-time mode. Optional toggle to announce 'You are 18 minutes in, 7 left' instead of only 'remaining'. The time-blindness receptor responds better to elapsed than to remaining alone. - Routines, not just timers. Start a morning anchor, a bedtime wind-down, a Pomodoro block, a study session, a leave-the-house countdown, or build your own. Each step has its own spoken cue. - No shame. No streaks. No 'you failed' copy. No gamification guilt. Just a calm narrator that keeps you company. - Real-time interruption handling. The clock keeps running through Siri, phone calls, YouTube. The next scheduled cue plays fresh, never an awkward stale announcement. - Local first. No account. No cloud sync. No tracking. No analytics. Your timer state lives on your phone only. Built for ADHD by people who have it, with line-editing input from an ADHD-PCC therapist. Made by Nice Notions LLC. Privacy policy: https://timeblindtimer.com/privacy Support: https://timeblindtimer.com/support Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/