second sight

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.

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.

get the apps

One price. Both apps. No subscription.

$9.99

one purchase · Mac + iPhone · no subscription

  • macOS menu-bar app + floating HUD
  • iPhone app App Store review in progress
  • Every visual and audible mode, unlocked
  • Free updates — Live Activity lock-screen glance in development

The Mac beta is unsigned — right-click → Open the first time. The iPhone app is with App Store review; one purchase will cover both.

Source on GitHub under the PolyForm Noncommercial license — you can read exactly what runs your timer. The official signed builds are what you're buying.