About

About Untimer

Untimer is made and operated by Kristaq Kola, a sole trader registered in Albania and trading as Argyro Labs. He has used a focus timer every working day for years. The browser timer he used forgot his session whenever he refreshed the page, so he built this one.

The story

Why Untimer was built

The founder edits video and produces music videos. That work takes twenty minutes to get into and every interruption costs him. He kept time in sessions of twenty five minutes, with a break between them and a longer break after every four, and he recorded every one. Over the years that record grew to several thousand sessions. The session length was a setting he could change the whole time, and he left it where it was.

The timer that kept those records was a browser tab. Refreshing the page cancelled the session, and so did leaving the page. On a phone the tab went to sleep and the countdown stopped with it. The timer also got slower every month, because every screen downloaded the entire history.

Untimer started as the fix for those problems. Along the way it became its own thing. It has one timer and one session length, a beginning you wind up, and a record that tells you what happened. It was built for the founder first and tested on his own history.

What it does

What Untimer does

It records every session. How long you planned it and how long you worked, how it ended and the interruptions you noticed.

It notes interruptions. One tap says whether it came from inside or outside, and one line about what it was shows when you return.

It has tasks. You can name a task and guess how many sessions it will take, and your sessions count against it. A session can also start without a task.

It marks the end of your working day. Set the time in Settings and the day strip draws a flag there.

Every session is twenty five minutes. Every session is the same length, so you can start straight away.

It records interruptions without punishing them. An interrupted session that ran its length still counts in full.

How it is built

How Untimer is built and paid for

It shows you what you did. A record of your own work, held plainly.

It sits beside your work. Untimer fits in a narrow window next to the tools that hold your projects and your calendar.

It asks you for one timer setting. You choose when your working day ends. A screen of numbers to adjust is somewhere to go instead of starting.

Every part has a written reason. A feature earns its place here by doing something, and the reason is on the record.

Your subscription pays for it. Plus is $1.99 a month or $19 a year, and it adds eight more panels in Insights and shows the next level of each milestone and how far along you are. That is how Untimer is paid for.

It stores what you record. This site sets no cookies and runs no trackers or analytics, and the app leaves your behaviour alone.

How it looks

Peach shows the time left and sage shows the time used.

Untimer draws with two colours, and each one means one thing. Peach, a warm orange pink, shows the time left. Sage, a soft grey green, shows the time used. That meaning holds everywhere time is shown: in the hourglass, in the small hourglass that stands for one session and in every chart.

Everything visual follows one idea taken from the logo, which is sand falling from the upper chamber into the lower. The type is rounded, the corners are soft and the motion is slow.

The app has two themes: paper light, and a warm dark for late nights. If your system asks for less motion, the hourglass holds still.

Contact

How to reach Untimer

Write to support@untimer.com with questions and problems, and with any sentence in the app that felt bad to read after a bad day. Write to privacy@untimer.com about your data, and to hello@untimer.com about anything else. A person replies, and a reply can take a day.