Interval timer that gets out of the way
Every interval timer on the App Store either drowns you in configuration or nags you with subscription paywalls mid-workout. Timer|Interval opens to the timer you used last, plays your voice cues, holds landscape, and lets you buy the Pro tier once — no subscription. It's the timer I wanted for my own HYROX and rugby-conditioning blocks.
The work was less about adding features and more about deciding what the user needed to see, understand and do first.
The category was full of capable timers, but most created friction at the worst moment: before or during training.
Released a focused training timer with 17 ready-made formats, landscape support, haptics, voice cues and a 5.0 early rating.
The countdown fills the screen. You should be able to check remaining seconds mid-rep from the far end of a sled push. Font weight, contrast and colour shifts on the last three seconds are all tuned for peripheral vision, not up-close reading.
No mid-workout upsells, no notification interruptions, no 'rate us' popups between rounds. The Pro upgrade lives one tap deep from Settings — invisible to anyone who never asks for it. Athletes who need the free tier get the free tier, indefinitely.
Lifetime Pro instead of a subscription. Interval timers should not be a recurring revenue stream. Users hate it, and the trust cost is bigger than the LTV gain.
A walk through Timer | Interval, one screen at a time. Each screen names the specific design call it makes and the reasoning behind it.
The featured session is your last one, ready to start. Discipline chips sit below for a category jump. Everything else — search, filters, deep menus — is one level deeper. Athletes want to tap Start, not navigate.
The countdown fills the screen. Font weight, contrast and the last-three-seconds colour shift are tuned for peripheral vision from the far end of a sled push — not up-close reading. The upcoming intervals sit outside the ring so you never lose your place.
Work is blue, rest is teal, ring colour redraws to match. You never have to read "WORK" or "REST" — the colour is the label. The current interval highlights below so you can see what's next without pausing.
Turn the phone sideways and the ring expands, controls dock to the bottom bar. For the shelf-propped gym phone, or the one hanging off a monitor mount during rounds. Not an afterthought orientation.
Drag to reorder, +/− to trim seconds, tap Save & Start. The Builder never asks you to pick an "interval type" from a dropdown — the timeline strip at the foot shows the whole session as a bar so you can feel the shape before you save.
Themes are free. Pro lives one tap deep in Settings, invisible to anyone who never asks for it. And the audio setting explains itself in plain English — "the timer just ducks them briefly" — so you don't have to guess whether your playlist will stop.
Released a focused training timer with 17 ready-made formats, landscape support, haptics, voice cues and a 5.0 early rating.
Next iteration: Improve saved-session organisation for serious athletes with larger timer libraries and recurring training blocks.