a visual timer you can also hear

You can't feel time pass.
Now you can watch it go — and hear it run out.

A timer for time blindness. Sixteen ways to perceive a minute — visual and audible — so you stop clock-watching and still know where you are. Built for ADHD brains, and fully usable without sight.

Mac betadirect download

iPhone — App Store review in progress

Unsigned beta — right-click the app and choose Open the first time. A notarized App Store build is coming.

The Mac menu-bar dropdown: a large circular panel on a plain grey ground, wordmarked second sight at the top. Inside it, a pale coin ringed with tick marks, a third of them coloured in. A horizontal teal waterline crosses the coin, labelled 70 per cent beside a small speaker icon — that line is the volume. In the middle of the coin sits a black split button, a teal pause on the left half and a magenta stop on the right, with the digits 17:23 of 25:00 beneath it and 30 per cent under that. Below the coin: the plus-5 to plus-60 chips with minus-1 and plus-1, a progress bar, a row of minute dots, and a whole-day bar reading 17 min and ends 12:43 pm, with a magnified inset of one hour in which a short block is marked your 17 min, done by 5:00 am. — The Mac dropdown, seventeen minutes from the end. Click the eye in your menu bar and this is what opens — no window, no Dock icon, nothing in your Command-Tab. Captured straight out of the running beta, with no desktop staged around it.

An alarm interrupts. Second Sight accompanies.

An alarm tells you one thing, once: time's up. It says nothing during the stretch that actually trips you up — the part where an hour evaporates and you never felt it move.

Second Sight fills that stretch. It turns the minutes into something you can watch draining and hear ticking down, so later stops sneaking up on you.

Clock time is borrowed arithmetic — base-60 laid over a spinning planet. What you actually live is duration: things starting, spreading, arriving. This is a vocabulary for that, in light and sound. Volume One of it.

the whole point

Keep the handful that works for your brain.

There's no one right way to sense time. Second Sight gives you many — visual and audible — each an independent switch. Turn on two, or seven. Change your mind tomorrow.

See time

Big mono digitsthe time, plain and huge
Percentone number — how far in you are
Depleting bar-ringticks emptying around the coin
Progress barfills up, or drains down — your call
Minute dotsone dot per minute, filling left to right
Ambient tintthe whole screen drifts color as time goes
Shrinking bloba soft shape that quietly gets smaller
Your whole dayyour 25 minutes shown inside your waking day, with a zoom-in
Mac menu-bar metertime, live, in the corner of the screen
Floating mini-coinan always-on-top HUD that never leaves

Hear time

Soft landingthe ending resolves instead of jolting — an alarm is there if you want one
Dispersionone narrow tone blooms wider and richer as time goes — entropy you can hear
Interval pingsa chime every minute — or every 5, 10, 15 — each one a step higher, so you know which it was
Milestone chimesa distinct note at 25, 50, 75, 90%
Final-minute pulsea soft beat that quickens as you close in
Second ticka quiet tick, once a second
Ambient dronea low bed of sound that swells as you go
Metronomea click that speeds up and grows near the end
Relaxed jazz beata swung ride-and-kick groove that rises with the clock

Every visual has an audible sibling. If you can't see the screen — or can't feel the minutes — there's a channel for you. The whole experience works with your eyes closed, and every control is labelled for VoiceOver in the Mac and iPhone apps.

screenshots, not mock-ups

Look at the actual thing.

Every image on this page comes straight out of the builds — the iPhone app now in App Store review, and the Mac beta you can download today. Nothing here is a drawing of an intention.

iPhone

One screen and nothing to navigate. The coin in the middle, your day along the bottom, and only the modes you switched on — the same face whether you're twelve minutes early or nineteen seconds late.

The same iPhone timer, nineteen seconds past the end. Every tick on the ring has flipped from teal to magenta, the whole background has drifted to a pale pink, and the digits read plus 00:19 OVER at 100 per cent. The teal volume waterline still crosses the coin with a small speaker badge reading 60 per cent, and the progress bar below the coin is one solid magenta band with a single magenta dot beneath it. The day bar at the foot reads 0 min, ends 11:00 pm, done by 7:31 pm, your 0 min. — Overtime doesn't beep once and stop. Every tick flips magenta and the entire screen washes pink, so you register that you've gone past from across the room — or out of the corner of an eye you weren't aiming at the phone.

The iPhone timer at rest: the coin shows 00:00, zero per cent, and a teal play triangle in the centre, with the volume waterline low across it and a speaker badge reading 15 per cent. Directly under the coin, a wide pill reads NEXT, standup, 09:29, in 12 min. Below that the settings button, then the plus-5, plus-10, plus-15, plus-25, plus-45 and plus-60 chips with minus-1, clear and plus-1 underneath, and a day bar reading 0 min on the left and ends 11:00 pm on the right. — It reads your calendar. “NEXT · standup · 09:29 · in 12 min” sits right under the coin, and it can start itself when the meeting does — which turns the twelve minutes beforehand from a vague cushion into a visible amount.

A sheet titled BENCH covering the lower two-thirds of the iPhone screen, with the dimmed timer coin still visible above it. Left column, headed SEE TIME: digits, percent, bar-ring and prog. bar are switched on, with fill selected over drain; dots and tint are on; blob is off. Right column, headed HEAR TIME: pings is on with 5m selected from the choices 1m, 5m, 10m and 15m; alarm is on; chimes, pulse, tick, drone, metronome and jazz are all off. Centred underneath, a dial labelled ESCALATE 50 per cent with a teal arc filling half its circle. — The bench, open over the timer. Nothing is buried in a preferences window three taps deep.

Every mode is one plain switch.

See on the left, hear on the right, one row each, all in view at once. No profiles, no presets to pick between, no “recommended” default that quietly decides for you.

The dial at the bottom is escalate: how hard the last stretch pushes. Turn it down on a bad day. Turn it up when you genuinely need shoving.

Each row is a real VoiceOver control with a real label — the bench is operable end to end without looking at it.

Mac

Three surfaces, and only one of them is even a window. You met that one at the top of this page. The other two never need a click — which is the whole point, because the moment a timer needs attention to be read, you stop reading it. Both of these are off-screen captures of the same SwiftUI views your Mac draws, shown plainly.

A small round always-on-top window, about the size of a coaster: a pale disc showing 17:23 in heavy black digits, encircled by a ring that is roughly two-thirds olive-green and one-third empty. — The floating mini-coin, at close to actual size.

A coin that floats over everything.

It sits on top of whatever you're working in — over full-screen apps too, if you ask — never takes keyboard focus, and never scrolls away behind a document.

It's for the stretch where the point is that you cannot lose track: the ring drains and the digits move in the corner of your eye, without ever becoming a thing you have to go and check.

A strip of the menu-bar icon at successive stages of a timer, each stage drawn at two sizes. It begins as a narrow, almost shut eye, opens wider as time passes, the pupil swelling until it fills nearly the whole shape, and ends as a solid filled eye with a small spark at its upper right. The same run is shown twice: once on a light menu bar and once, underneath, on a dark one. — **The menu bar itself becomes the glance.** The eye opens as your time runs out — a slit at idle, wide around halfway, all pupil near the end, and a filled eye with a spark once you're over. Left to right: idle, 25%, 50%, 75%, past the end; on a light menu bar above and a dark one below. You read where you are without opening, clicking or focusing anything. Drag the strip sideways to see the later stages.

setting the time

Build it like a microwave.

No tiny scroll wheel. No typing. Tap the chips — +25, +5 — and hit start. The numbers add up; the coin fills in.

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$9.99

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