Countdown Timer

A countdown timer is one of those tools everyone needs at random moments — timing a workout rest, a cooking step, a Pomodoro focus block, a presentation, a kid's screen time — and hunting for one shouldn't mean wading through app-store installs or ad-choked sites. This one is instant, visual, and runs entirely in your browser tab.

Set any duration with the hour/minute/second fields, or tap a preset: the 25-minute Pomodoro block for focused work, 5 and 10 minutes for breaks and cooking, an hour for longer sessions. A large circular progress ring drains as time counts down, so you can read the remaining time at a glance from across the room, and a pleasant three-note chime plays when it reaches zero — generated by the browser's audio engine, so there's no file to load and nothing to enable.

The timer uses wall-clock time rather than counting ticks, which means it stays accurate even if the browser throttles the background tab — a common failing of naive timers that drift or pause when you switch away. Start, pause and reset are all one click. No signup, no ads, nothing uploaded — just a reliable timer when you need one.