NotSoTiny Timer
Because why have less when you can have EVERYTHING?
You asked for features. We delivered ALL of them. NotSoTiny Timer is the gloriously excessive, unapologetically bloated, feature-packed timer that does everything short of making your coffee (that's on the roadmap). Multiple simultaneous timers. Pomodoro sessions with statistics. Custom themes. Sound libraries. Webhook integrations. Keyboard shortcuts for keyboard shortcuts. It's a timer app that went to an all-you-can-eat buffet and came back with chubby cheeks and absolutely zero regrets.
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Every Feature. No Exceptions.
We sat down and asked ourselves: "What if a timer app had no restraint whatsoever?" The answer was NotSoTiny Timer. Below you'll find every lovingly over-engineered category of functionality we crammed into this beautiful, round, chubby-cheeked masterpiece.
Timer Basics
The foundation upon which empires of time-tracking are built. Other apps stop here. We're just warming up.
Custom Durations
Set any duration from 1 second to 99 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds. Because sometimes you need to time a four-day brisket. We don't judge.
Multiple Simultaneous Timers
Run up to 12 timers at once. Each with its own label, color, duration, and personality. Your tea timer doesn't need to know about your meeting timer.
Timer Sequences
Chain timers together. 25 minutes of work, then 5 minutes of break, then 25 more minutes of work. It's like a playlist, but for time.
Loop Mode
Set any timer or sequence to loop infinitely. Perfect for interval training, or for manifesting an eternal recurrence of productive focus blocks.
End-Time Mode
Instead of "count down 25 minutes," tell it "end at 3:30 PM." The timer does the math so you don't have to. Because math is for computers.
Stopwatch + Countdown
Both modes, naturally. Switch between them with a single click. Each timer independently chooses its own direction in life.
Pomodoro Focus Mode
The Pomodoro Technique, elevated to an art form. Francesco Cirillo would weep with pride (or concern).
Configurable Durations
Work session, short break, long break — customize every interval down to the second. The default 25/5/15 is merely a suggestion. A starting point. A whisper.
Session Logging & Stats
Every Pomodoro session is logged with timestamps, labels, and duration. View daily, weekly, and monthly statistics. Know exactly how productive you are (or aren't).
Streak Tracking
Maintain your focus streak. How many consecutive days have you completed at least one Pomodoro? The number goes up. You feel good. Simple psychology, devastating effectiveness.
Auto-Chain Sessions
Work session ends? Break starts automatically. Break ends? Next work session begins. You don't lift a finger. The timer owns your schedule now.
Daily Goals
Set a target number of Pomodoro sessions per day. Watch your progress bar fill up. Feel the dopamine. Become unstoppable. Conquer the concept of time itself.
Session Labels
Tag each Pomodoro with a project or category. "Deep Work," "Email Triage," "Pretending to Work While Actually on Twitter." Full transparency with yourself.
Visual Customization
Your timer, your rules. Make it gorgeous. Make it garish. Make it match your desktop wallpaper from 2008. We support your vision.
Built-In Themes
Choose from 14 handcrafted themes: Sunset, Midnight, Forest, Ocean, Lavender, Neon, Monochrome, Retro, Candy, Nordic, Terracotta, Sakura, Desert, and, of course, "Maximalist."
Custom Color Picker
Every element is individually customizable. Timer ring color. Background color. Text color. Button color. Shadow color. If it has a pixel, you can change its color.
Emoji Labels
Assign any emoji to any timer. Your focus timer gets a brain. Your tea timer gets a teacup. Your existential dread timer gets... well, you choose.
Progress Ring Styles
Classic ring, segmented ring, dotted ring, gradient ring, pulsing ring, double ring. Six distinct ways to watch time disappear. Seven if you count staring into the void.
Resizable Window
Drag to resize from tiny and discreet to absolutely massive and dominating your entire screen. The timer is as big as your ambitions.
Completion Animations
When a timer finishes: confetti, fireworks, gentle pulse, screen flash, or "subtle glow." Because finishing a task deserves a celebration proportional to this app.
Audio & Alerts
A timer that finishes silently is a timer that has abandoned you. NotSoTiny Timer will make absolutely sure you know when time is up.
Sound Library
24 built-in alert sounds. Gentle chimes, assertive bells, playful blips, dramatic gongs. One of them is just a cat meowing. We're not sorry.
Custom Sound Upload
Upload any MP3, WAV, or AAC file as your timer sound. Use your favorite song. Use a foghorn. Use your own voice saying "TIME'S UP." The power is yours.
Per-Timer Volume Control
Each timer has its own volume slider. Your gentle meditation timer whispers while your workout timer SCREAMS. Harmonious coexistence.
Pre-End Warnings
Get a heads-up at 5 minutes, 1 minute, and 30 seconds before a timer ends. Customize each threshold. Never be caught off guard by the passage of time again.
Alert Patterns
Single alert, repeating alert (every 30 seconds until dismissed), escalating alert (gets louder over time). For those who need increasingly urgent reminders that their pizza is done.
Do Not Disturb Respect
Honors macOS Focus modes. When you're in Do Not Disturb, alerts queue silently. When you emerge, they're waiting for you. Patient. Persistent. Slightly ominous.
Scheduling & Automation
Why manually start a timer when the timer can start itself? Welcome to the future. The timers are in charge now.
Recurring Timers
Set timers to auto-start on a schedule. Every weekday at 9 AM: focus timer. Every day at 3 PM: stretch break. Your life, on autopilot.
Webhook Notifications
Fire a webhook when any timer starts, pauses, or completes. Connect to Slack, Zapier, IFTTT, or your own custom endpoint. Your timer is now part of your infrastructure.
URL Scheme Control
Control timers via notsotiny:// URLs. Start, stop, create, and query timers from Alfred, Shortcuts, scripts, or sheer determination.
Snooze
Timer went off but you're not ready? Snooze it for 1, 5, or 10 minutes. Or set a custom snooze duration because even your procrastination deserves precision.
Shortcuts Integration
Full Shortcuts app support. Build automations that start timers, check status, log sessions. Your timer is now a first-class citizen of your automation empire.
AppleScript Support
For the power users who still write AppleScript (we see you, we respect you, we fear you slightly). Full scriptable dictionary included.
Persistence & Sync
Your timers are precious. They deserve to survive anything. Power outages. Kernel panics. Accidental force quits. The heat death of the universe (working on it).
Save Everything
Every timer configuration, every Pomodoro session, every custom theme, every sound assignment. Saved. Persistently. Obsessively. It's all there when you come back.
Crash Recovery
If NotSoTiny Timer crashes (it won't, but hypothetically), your running timers resume exactly where they left off. Time doesn't stop for crashes, and neither do we.
Remember Last Timer
Launch the app and your most recent timer configuration is already loaded. No re-entering "25 minutes" for the 47th time. We remember, even if you don't.
Export & Import
Export your entire configuration as a JSON file. Import it on another machine. Share your meticulously crafted timer setup with friends, colleagues, or internet strangers.
Keyboard Shortcuts & Accessibility
A timer for everyone. Every hand. Every eye. Every workflow. No exceptions, no compromises, no excuses.
Comprehensive Shortcuts
Global hotkey to toggle window. Per-timer start/stop/reset shortcuts. Navigation shortcuts. There's a shortcut for the shortcut settings. We're not kidding.
High Contrast Mode
Bold colors, thick borders, maximum legibility. Automatically activates with macOS Increase Contrast setting, or toggle it manually because you like the aesthetic.
Screen Reader Support
Full VoiceOver support. Every timer, every button, every status update is announced clearly. The timer talks to you, and you talk to it. A beautiful relationship.
Distraction-Free Mode
Strip away everything except the countdown. No buttons, no labels, no decorations. Just time. Pure, unadorned, relentless time. It's minimalist within maximalism. Very meta.
Dynamic Type Support
Respects your preferred text size. Make the timer text enormous. Make it microscopic. Make it exactly the size that brings you peace.
Reduced Motion
All animations respect macOS Reduce Motion settings. Progress rings fill without spinning. Alerts appear without bouncing. Calm and dignified, even at this scale.
The Inevitable Comparison
One is a haiku. The other is an epic novel. Both are beautiful in their own way.
| Feature | Tiny Timer | NotSoTiny Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Simultaneous timers | 1 | 12 |
| Modes | Countdown & Stopwatch | Countdown, Stopwatch, Pomodoro, Sequences, End-Time, Loop |
| Themes | 1 (it's perfect) | 14 + custom colors |
| Alert sounds | macOS Purr | 24 built-in + custom upload |
| Webhook support | No | Obviously yes |
| Pomodoro stats | No | Daily, weekly, monthly, all-time, exportable |
| Scheduling | No | Recurring timers, cron-style |
| Emoji labels | No | Every emoji in Unicode 15.1 |
| Progress ring styles | No ring needed | 6 styles + custom gradients |
| Settings panels | 3 toggle switches | We lost count |
| Sparks joy | Gentle warmth | Blazing inferno of joy |
| Cheeks | None | Chubby and rosy |
| Price | Free | Also free (we can't be stopped) |
Requirements
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Apple Silicon or Intel Mac
- An appreciation for excess
- Room in your heart for a chubby timer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this too much timer?
There's no such thing. NotSoTiny Timer is exactly the right amount of timer. In fact, we're still adding features. The timer grows. The timer provides. The timer knows what you need before you do.
Is NotSoTiny Timer free?
Yes. All 847 features, zero dollars. We refuse to charge money for something this gloriously unhinged. No ads, no subscriptions, no "premium tier." Just pure, unfiltered timer maximalism.
Do I really need webhooks in a timer app?
Need? No. Deserve? Absolutely. Your timer completing is an EVENT. Your infrastructure should KNOW about it. Your Slack channel should celebrate it. Your CI/CD pipeline should... okay, maybe not that. But maybe?
Why does NotSoTiny Timer have chubby cheeks?
Because it ate all the features. Every single one. It's very full and very happy about it. Those rosy cheeks are the glow of satisfaction that comes from having literally everything.
What's the difference between this and Tiny Timer?
Tiny Timer is a beautiful, minimal timer that does one thing perfectly. NotSoTiny Timer is a beautiful, maximal timer that does everything excessively. They're siblings. One went to art school, the other went to buffet school.
Can I run both Tiny Timer and NotSoTiny Timer at the same time?
Yes! They coexist peacefully in your menu bar. Use Tiny Timer for when you want simplicity. Use NotSoTiny Timer for when you want the complete opposite of simplicity. Balance in all things.
My timer has more features than my IDE. Is that normal?
Perfectly normal. Expected, even. Your IDE wishes it had webhook support, 14 themes, and Pomodoro statistics. Your IDE is jealous of your timer, and that's a sign you've made the right choice.
Can I go back to Tiny Timer after using this?
You can try. But once you've experienced 12 simultaneous timers with emoji labels, custom sounds, and webhook notifications, a single timer will feel... lonely. Quiet. Too much whitespace. You'll be back.
Ready for ALL the Timer?
Download NotSoTiny Timer and experience what happens when a timer app has absolutely no chill.
Download for Mac (It's Free, Obviously) Too much? Try Tiny Timer instead.