Free meeting timer
A meeting timer that floats over your screen share.
Set a countdown, an agenda with a timer for every item, or a standup where everyone gets a turn. Pop it out and it stays on top of your slides, your code and the call, where everyone can see it. It turns amber when time runs low, red when it's up, and looks the way you want.
Design review
25 min
Open it as a window and share just that window from the call, or go full screen on a second display. In Chrome or Edge on a computer it can also float on top of everything you share.
SpaceStart or pause+ / −A minute more or lessRResetPPop outFFull screen
What are you timing?
Make it yours
Aurora
Digits
Progress
Floating window
When time runs low
Turn amber with this much left
So whoever is talking knows to wrap up. Turns shorter than that warn at a third of their time.
How to put a timer on your shared screen.
- 1Set it upPick what you're timing: one countdown, an agenda, a standup round or a stopwatch. Give it a label, then pick a look and a typeface.
- 2Float itPress Float over my screen. A small window opens on top of everything else. Drag it to a corner where it covers nothing important, and resize it from its edges.
- 3Share your entire screenIn Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, share your entire screen, not a single window. The floating timer is on your screen, so it's in the share, on top of whatever you show.
- 4Start itPress Start, or Space. Everyone sees the minutes go down, then amber when time runs low and red when it's up, without anyone saying a word.
Four timers, one floating window.
Switch between them at the top of the timer. Each one remembers its own minutes, names and items.
Countdown
One block of time: a focus session, a workshop exercise, a break, a talk. Amber near the end, red past zero.
Agenda
A timer for every item, with what's next on screen. Press Next when an item ends early; the rail shows what's done.
Standup
Names in speaking order, shuffled every round if you like. Everyone gets the same turn, and the next name is always showing.
Stopwatch
Counts up with no limit, for open-ended sessions: you'll know exactly how long that brainstorm took.
Make it look like it's yours.
It's on everyone's screen for the whole meeting, so it might as well look good. Pick a look, a typeface and how it shows progress.
- Design review24:59
Bold
- Ava01:12
Serif
- Lightning talk04:30
Thin
- Retro09:41
Mono
- 1:115:00
Paper
- Your gradient30:00
Your colors
Floats over everything
Pop it out and it stays on top of your slides, your editor and the call, in Chrome and Edge. Drag it anywhere, resize it from the edges.
Ten looks, or your own
Gradients, Forgot blue, Midnight, Paper, Terminal, or pick your own color or gradient. The text color adjusts so it stays readable.
Four typefaces
Bold, thin, mono or serif digits, sized to fill whatever window it's in, from a corner of your screen to a wall display.
Progress your way
A bar along the bottom, a wash that drains behind the digits, a ring next to them, or nothing at all.
Buttons that get out of the way
While it runs, the controls fade until you move the mouse, so the shared screen shows only the time.
Keyboard first
Space starts and pauses, N moves on, plus and minus add or take a minute, R resets, P pops it out, F goes full screen.
Shows when it ends
“Ends 10:45 AM” in the corner, worked out from what's left of every item, so the room knows when it's free.
A link for the team
Copy a link with every setting in it, so whoever runs tomorrow's meeting opens the same timer, names and look.
Why a timer everyone can see keeps meetings short.
A clock only the host can see turns the host into the timekeeper: they watch it, they interrupt, they apologize for interrupting. A timer on the shared screen does that job for them. Whoever is talking sees two minutes left and wraps up on their own.
It changes what people ask, too. When the next agenda item is on screen with its own countdown, nobody has to ask whether there's time for one more question: the timer answers it, and the item that runs over shows how far over in red.
Timeboxes work best when they're agreed before the meeting starts. Put the agenda with a time for every item in the invite, open the call with the timer already shared, and let it move the meeting along.
The meeting that runs best is the one everyone can make.
Forgot shows the whole team's time off, public holidays and on-call on one board, so you book the meeting on a day people are in, not the week half the team is away.
Try it free for 14 daysMore for meetings: the meeting cost calculator has a live ticker that floats over your screen share the same way, the retrospective games come with timed agendas, and the 1:1 questions fill the time you saved.
Questions
How do I show a timer on my screen during a meeting?
Set the timer up on this page and press Float over my screen. In Chrome or Edge it opens a small window that stays on top of every other window. Share your entire screen from the call and the timer is in the share. In other browsers, open the timer as a window and share that window, or put it full screen on a second display.
Will everyone on the call see the timer?
Yes, when the timer is part of what you share. Sharing your entire screen includes the floating window. Sharing a single window or browser tab leaves it out: switch to sharing the whole screen, or share the timer's own window instead.
Which browsers can float the timer?
Chrome and Edge on Windows, Mac and Linux, version 116 or newer. Other browsers built on Chromium usually work too. Safari and Firefox can't float it yet: open the timer as a window there and share that window, or use full screen.
Can I give each agenda item its own time?
Yes. Pick Agenda, start from a template like sprint planning or a retro, or type your own items with a time for each. Press Next (or N) when an item ends early, or turn on Move on by itself. At the end it tells you whether the meeting ran over, and by how much.
Does it make a sound when time is up?
A soft chime plays at the warning, at zero and between agenda items while Chime is on. It plays on your computer, so the call hears it only if you share your computer's sound along with your screen.
Do I need to sign up?
No. The timer is free, runs in your browser and remembers your setup in this browser. Copy a link to share the exact timer with someone else, or to open it on another computer.
Does the timer keep running if I switch tabs or apps?
Yes. It counts from the clock rather than from ticks, so it stays right even when the browser slows down a background tab. While it floats, it runs in the floating window, which stays visible and awake.