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.
Unsigned beta — right-click the app and choose Open the first time. A notarized App Store build is coming.
iPhone — App Store review in progress.
A live 5-minute loop. The ring empties and drifts teal → ochre → magenta as it goes.
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.
the real app
This is what you'll actually see.
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 web demo is free forever. The Mac beta is unsigned — right-click → Open the first time.
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.