About

Untimer is built from 8 years of studying focus.

Untimer is a focus timer for people who do not feel time passing. Its founder studied focus for over 8 years and recorded thousands of his own sessions.

He worked in 25 minute sessions with a break after each one. Along the way he took a dozen productivity apps apart. Each one helped with one thing and got in the way of another.

Untimer keeps what worked and leaves out the rest. It was built for the founder first and tested on his own record.

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Principles

How Untimer is made.

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Set for you

A session is 25 minutes and a set is 4 sessions. You only choose when your working day ends.

A reason for each part

Each feature in Untimer has a written reason. A feature stays only if it helps you start or keep going.

Beside your work

Untimer fits in a narrow window next to your other tools. The time stays in view while you work.

Your sessions stay private

The app uses your sessions only to show them to you. This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

Paid for by Plus

Plus is $1.99 a month or $19 a year. Plus pays for Untimer and keeps the timer free.

How it looks

Peach is the time left. Sage is the time used.

Untimer draws with 2 colours and each one means one thing. They keep that meaning on each screen of the app.

The app has a light theme and a warm dark one for late nights. If your system asks for less motion, the hourglass holds still.

The Timer screen in the warm dark theme while a session runs: the hourglass with peach sand pouring into sage, and 24:52 under it.

Contact

Write to Untimer.

Send questions and problems to support@untimer.com. A person reads each message. A reply can take a day.

Write to privacy@untimer.com about your data. Write to hello@untimer.com about anything else.

Untimer is made and operated by Kristaq Kola. He is a sole trader registered in Albania and trades as Argyro Labs.

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The photographs that do not show the app come from Pexels. They are by Ivan S, cottonbro studio, RDNE Stock project, Karola G, Hassan OUAJBIR, Cup of Couple, Gordon Plant, Mikhail Nilov, Dinara Guseinova, Kampus Production, Vitaly Gariev, Cemrecan Yurtman, olia danilevich, Michael Burrows, Steppe Walker, Anna Tarazevich, Anete Lusina, Julio Lopez, Melanie Brumble, i.am.anatolia, Roman Odintsov, Erik A van Dijk, Mizuno K, MART PRODUCTION, Arina Krasnikova and Angela Roma. None of them shows a customer or the founder.