Advanced simplicity
Hourglass is the most advanced simple countdown timer for Windows. Just enter a time in just nigh any format, and striking Enter.
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Pause and resume
Start, stop, break and resume your timers. Finally an app that tin can do everything your kitchen timer can.
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Smart input
Type a duration similar 5 minutes or a engagement and time like Baronial 11 at 8 pm to start your timer.
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Beep, beep, beep
Cull from 3 dissimilar versions of the aforementioned beeping noise. Or utilise your own notification sound instead.
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Improved interface
Brighten upward your device with the congenital-in color themes. Or tell apart multiple timers by assigning a title to each one.
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Right-click for more
Set advanced options, start mutual timers, resume closed timers, manage custom color themes and sounds, and more…
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Absolutely free
Hourglass is absolutely free to employ, free to share, and free to hack. No ads. No in-app buy. No null.
And now with fifty-fifty more than features…
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Always on top
Optionally keep your timer on height of other windows.
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Full screen fashion
Fill up your screen with your timer, and stay focused on the time left.
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Show in notification area
Hide your timer in the system tray.
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Loop timer
Repeat your timer over and over once more.
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Popular upwardly when expired
Show the timer window when your timer expires if it's subconscious.
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Close when expired
Automatically get out Hourglass when your timer expires.
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Think recent timers
Hands start contempo timers without retyping your timer.
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Resume accidentally closed timers
If you closed your timer accidentally, you can resume it without losing a tick.
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Command line arguments
Avant-garde users can starting time the timer and control any option from the control line.
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Add a title
Continue runway of multiple timers by setting a championship for each one.
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Choose your sound
Pick one of the built-in sounds, or add your own.
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Choose your theme
Run multiple timers with your selection of the built-in colour themes, or create your own.
Download the latest version
Use the installer to install Hourglass on your reckoner, or grab the portable version, put it on a USB thumb bulldoze and take it anywhere.
Often Asked Questions
How do I start, finish, pause or resume a timer?
To start a timer, enter a elapsing or date and time in the big text box in the middle of the timer window and click Get-go or press Enter.
To stop a timer, click Terminate, press Ctrl + S, or only close the timer window.
To break or resume a timer, click Suspension or Resume, or press Ctrl + P.
Annotation that the Interruption and Stop buttons only announced when you movement your mouse cursor onto the timer window.
What formats are supported when entering a duration or date and time?
Minutes – To kickoff a timer for a specified number of minutes, enter the number of minutes:
- ane – count down for 1 minute
- 5 – count downwardly for v minutes
- ten – count down for ten minutes
Specifying units – To showtime a timer specifying the units, enter a number followed by one of the supported units: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years are supported:
- 30 seconds – count downwardly for 30 seconds
- five minutes – count down for v minutes
- 7 hours – count downward for 7 hours
- 3 days – count downwards for 3 days
- 25 weeks – count down for 25 weeks
- vi months – count downwards for 6 months
- 2 years – count downwardly for 2 years
You tin can also use the short class of the supported units: s, thousand, h, d, w, mo, and y:
- 30s – count down for 30 seconds
- 5m – count downwards for five minutes
- 7h – count down for 7 hours
- 3d – count downwardly for 3 days
- 25w – count downwardly for 25 weeks
- 6mo – count down for 6 months
- 2y – count down for 2 years
Combining units – To kickoff a timer using a combination of units, simply concatenate the units:
- 5 minutes 30 seconds – count down for 5 minutes 30 seconds
- 5m30s – count downwards for 5 minutes thirty seconds
- vii hours 15 minutes – count down for seven hours 15 minutes
- 7h15m – count downwards for 7 hours 15 minutes
Decimal notation – To start a timer specifying a duration that is not a whole number, use decimal annotation:
- five.5 minutes – count down for 5 minutes thirty seconds
- ane.v hours – count downwards for 1 hour thirty minutes
- 0.5 years – count down for 6 months
Brusk grade elapsing – To start a timer for a specified elapsing, you can alternatively utilize the short grade g:ss or h:mm:ss formats:
- 5:thirty – count downwardly for 5 minutes 30 seconds
- 7:15:00 – count down for vii hours 15 minutes
You can use . instead of : equally the separator if y'all prefer:
- 5.30 – count down for v minutes 30 seconds
- 7.15.00 – count down for 7 hours 15 minutes
Until fourth dimension of twenty-four hours – To start a timer until a specified time of 24-hour interval, enter the fourth dimension of day in the h am/pm, h:mm am/pm, or h:mm:ss am/pm formats:
- 2 pm – count down until ii:00:00 pm
- ii:30 pm – count down until ii:30:00 pm
- two:30:15 pm – count downward until 2:xxx:15 pm
You can apply . instead of : every bit the separator if yous prefer:
- 2.30 pm – count downwardly until 2:thirty:00 pm
- 2.30.15 pm – count down until ii:30:15 pm
If the specified time of twenty-four hour period has already passed today, the timer will count down until the specified time of day tomorrow.
Until engagement – To start a timer until a specified date, enter the date in the month day, day calendar month, month mean solar day, yr, or twenty-four hours month year formats:
- January 1 – count downwardly until midnight Jan i
- 1 January – count down until midnight January 1
- Jan 1, 2019 – count down until midnight January one, 2019
- ane Jan, 2019 – count downwardly until midnight January 1, 2019
Y'all tin can use the total calendar month name: Jan, February, March, April, May, June, July, Baronial, September, Oct, November, or December. Or you can apply the short form of the month name: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, October, Nov, or Dec:
- Jan ane – count down until midnight January 1
- 1 January – count downward until midnight January ane
- Jan ane, 2019 – count downwardly until midnight January i, 2019
- 1 Jan, 2019 – count down until midnight January 1, 2019
Or you tin use the calendar month number instead, or a ii-digit year, if you prefer:
- one/1 – count down until midnight January 1
- 01/01 – count down until midnight Jan 1
- 1/1/19 – count down until midnight January ane, 2019
- 01/01/xix – count down until midnight Jan i, 2019
- i/1/2019 – count downwards until midnight Jan 1, 2019
- 01/01/2019 – count downwards until midnight January 1, 2019
Note that the club of the 24-hour interval, month, and twelvemonth depends on your system settings in some cases.
Until weekday – To start a timer until a specified weekday, enter Mon, Tuesday, Wednesday, Th, Friday, Sat, or Lord's day:
- Mon – count down until midnight Monday
- Wednesday – count down until midnight Wednesday
- Sabbatum – count down until midnight Saturday
Yous tin also apply the short class of the weekday: Monday, Tue, Wed, Thu, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday:
- Mon – count down until midnight Mon
- Wednesday – count down until midnight Midweek
- Sabbatum – count downwardly until midnight Saturday
To specify a day adjacent week rather than this week, append next week. To specify the weekday after next, suspend next or afterward next:
- Wednesday side by side week – count downwards until midnight Wednesday next week
- Wednesday next – count down until midnight the Wednesday after next Wednesday
- Wednesday after side by side – count down until midnight the Wednesday after adjacent Wednesday
- Thu next week – count down until midnight Th next week
- Thu next – count down until midnight the Th later next Th
- Thu afterward next – count downwards until midnight the Thursday after next Thursday
Tomorrow – To start a timer until the adjacent twenty-four hours, enter tomorrow:
- tomorrow – count down until midnight tomorrow
Combining date and time – To start a timer until a specified date, specified weekday, or tomorrow and specified time of day, join the engagement, weekday, or tomorrow and the time of day and separate them with at or on every bit appropriate:
- January 1, 2019 at 2 pm – count downwards until 2 pm on January 1, 2019
- 2 pm on January ane, 2019 – count downwards until 2 pm on Jan 1, 2019
- 01/01/2019 at two pm – count down until 2 pm on January 1, 2019
- 2 pm on 01/01/2019 – count down until two pm on January 1, 2019
- Wednesday at ii pm – count down until two pm on Wednesday
- 2 pm on Wed – count down until 2 pm on Wednesday
- tomorrow at ii pm – count down until two pm tomorrow
- ii pm tomorrow – count downward until ii pm tomorrow
You can omit the at or on separating the date, weekday, or tomorrow and the time of mean solar day in most cases:
- January one, 2019 two pm – count downward until 2 pm on January 1, 2019
- 2 pm January 1, 2019 – count downward until two pm on Jan ane, 2019
- 01/01/2019 2 pm – count downward until 2 pm on January 1, 2019
- 2 pm 01/01/2019 – count downwardly until 2 pm on January 1, 2019
- Wednesday two pm – count downwards until 2 pm on Wednesday
- 2 pm Wednesday – count downwards until 2 pm on Wednesday
- tomorrow two pm – count down until ii pm tomorrow
- 2 pm tomorrow – count down until 2 pm tomorrow
How exercise I start a 2nd timer with Hourglass?
Correct-click on any empty space in the timer window and select New timer.
How do I keep the timer window on top of other windows?
Right-click on whatever empty space in the timer window and bank check Ever on height.
How do I run a timer in full screen mode?
To enter full-screen mode, press Alt + Enter, double-click on any empty infinite in the timer window, or correct-click on any empty infinite in the Hourglass window and check Full screen.
To go out full-screen fashion, press Alt + Enter again, double-click on any empty space in the timer window, or right-click on whatever empty infinite in the timer window and uncheck Total screen.
How do I stop the timer from prompting me when I close the window?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and uncheck Prompt on exit.
How practise I minimize the timer window to the notification area (system tray)?
Right-click on any empty infinite in the timer window and cheque Show in notification area. Now when y'all minimize the timer window, it volition be subconscious in the notification area (system tray). To restore a hidden timer window, click on the Hourglass icon in the notification area (system tray).
To remove the Hourglass icon from the notification area (organization tray) and restore any hidden timer windows, right-click on any empty space in the timer window and uncheck Show in notification area.
How do I do I repeat the timer automatically when it expires?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and check Loop timer.
How do I stop the timer from popping upwards on top of other windows when it expires?
Right-click on any empty infinite in the timer window and uncheck Pop up when expired.
How exercise I automatically close the timer window when the timer expires?
Correct-click on any empty space in the timer window and check Close when expired. Note that the timer window volition not close until the notification audio has finished playing.
How do I automatically shut down Windows when the timer expires?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and bank check Shut downward when expired in the Advanced options submenu. Annotation that Windows will not shut down until the notification sound has finished playing.
How practise I start a timer for a duration or until a engagement and time that I recently entered?
When y'all relaunch Hourglass, the last duration or appointment and time that you entered will be automatically populated in the input text field. To kickoff a inaugural for that duration or until that engagement and time, just press Enter.
To commencement a timer for another duration or until another date and time that yous recently entered, right-click on any empty space in the timer window and select the duration or date and time from the Recent inputs submenu.
How do I articulate recently entered durations and dates and times?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and select Clear recent inputs from the Recent inputs submenu.
How exercise I resume a timer that I accidentally airtight?
Hourglass keeps track of running timers that you close. To resume a saved timer, right-click on any empty infinite in the timer window and select the timer from the Saved timers submenu.
You can also resume all saved timers past checking Open all saved timers in the Saved timers submenu.
And yous can set Hourglass to automatically open saved timers when it starts upwardly past checking Open saved timers on startup in the Advanced options submenu.
How do I clear saved timers?
Correct-click on any empty infinite in the timer window and select Clear saved timers from the Saved timers submenu.
How do I set a title for a timer?
Click in the text field that says Click to enter title, enter a championship, and press Enter.
To clear a title that you entered, click the title text field, delete the title text, and press Enter.
How do I alter what is displayed in the timer window title?
By default, the timer window title displays the application name, Hourglass. You can change it to display the time left, the time elapsed, or the timer title instead.
Right-click on whatever empty space in the timer window, select Advanced options, and so select the advisable pick from the Window title submenu.
How do I alter the timer window color theme?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and select a color theme from the Theme submenu.
Is there a night colour theme available?
Yes. Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and select Dark theme from the Theme submenu.
How do I add a custom color theme?
Right-click on whatever empty space in the timer window, select Manage themes… from the Theme submenu. Pick a colour theme from the drib-down card to base the new theme on, and click New.
Click on each color your want to change, and select a color using the color picker. Type the theme name in the textbox at the top of the dialog, and click Save to save your changes.
How do I rename a custom color theme?
Correct-click on whatsoever empty infinite in the timer window, select Manage themes… from the Theme submenu. Pick the color theme that yous desire to rename from the drop-down menu, type the theme name in the textbox at the top of the dialog, and click Save.
The built-in colour themes cannot exist renamed.
How practice I delete a custom color theme?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window, select Manage themes… from the Theme submenu. Option the color theme that you want to delete from the drib-down carte du jour, and click Delete.
The built-in colour themes cannot exist deleted.
How practice I change the notification audio?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and select a sound from the Sound submenu.
How do I add a custom notification audio?
Save the audio file to the folder where you installed Hourglass – typically, C:\Program Files (x86)\Hourglass.
Your sound file should then appear when you lot correct-click on any empty space in the Hourglass window and select the Audio submenu.
The supported formats are .aac, .m4a, .mid, .midi, .mp3, .wav, and .wma. If your sound file is not in i of the supported formats, y'all will need to catechumen it outset.
How do I remove a custom notification sound?
Delete the audio file from the folder where you installed Hourglass – typically, C:\Program Files (x86)\Hourglass. Be conscientious not to delete any other files.
How do I loop the notification sound?
Right-click on any empty infinite in the timer window and check Loop sound from the Sound submenu.
How exercise I stop the timer keeping the figurer from going to sleep?
By default, Hourglass keeps the computer from going to sleep and then that progress can be displayed and the notification sound tin can be played.
To terminate Hourglass keeping the figurer from going to slumber, right-click on any empty space in the timer window and cheque Do non keep computer awake in the Advanced options submenu.
If the computer goes to slumber while a timer is running, Hourglass volition try to wake the reckoner around the time the timer will expire so the notification sound can be played.
How do I show the time elapsed rather than the time left?
Right-click on any empty space in the timer window and check Bear witness time elapsed instead of fourth dimension left in the Advanced options submenu.
How exercise I create a shortcut that automatically starts a timer with Hourglass?
To create a shortcut, correct-click on your Desktop or the folder where you desire to create the shortcut and select Shortcut from the New submenu. Enter the location where you installed Hourglass.exe – typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Hourglass\Hourglass.exe – followed by the duration or date and time for your countdown in quotes.
Then click Next, give your shortcut a name, and click Finish to create the shortcut.
You can also specify additional command line arguments to prepare other options for the timer. See "What command line arguments does Hourglass accept?" beneath.
What control line arguments does Hourglass accept?
You can launch Hourglass and immediately start a timer by running Hourglass.exe "<duration or date and time>". For example, to launch Hourglass and offset a five-minute timer, run Hourglass.exe "5 minutes".
You can too gear up any pick that you tin can set using the user interface by specifying additional command line arguments. To view a total list of control line arguments, run Hourglass.exe --help or click beneath.
Usage: Hourglass.exe [OPTIONS] [<input>] A elementary countdown timer for Windows. <input> The input used to start the timer. For instance: "5" count down for 5 minutes "five:xxx" count downwards for 5 minutes 30 seconds "7:30:00" count down for 7 hours 30 minutes "5 minutes" count downward for 5 minutes "5 minutes 30 seconds" count down for 5 minutes 30 seconds "vii hours 30 minutes" count downward for vii hours 30 minutes "01/01/20"* count downwardly until Jan 1, 2020 "01/01/2020"* count down until January 1, 2020 "January 1, 2020"* count downwards until January ane, 2020 "January 1"* count down until January 1 "two pm" count downward until ii pm "2:xxx pm" count down until 2:30 pm "noon" count downwards until noon "midnight" count downwards until midnight "Friday" count downwards until midnight Fri * The order of the day, month, and yr depends on your system settings. Variations of some of these formats are too supported. Options: --championship <title> Sets the championship for the timer. Required no Default value (none) Allonym -t --ever-on-meridian on|off|last Displays the timer window on pinnacle of other windows. Required no Default value last Alias -a --full-screen on|off|last Displays the timer window in full-screen mode. Required no Default value last Allonym -f --prompt-on-exit on|off|final Displays a prompt earlier endmost the timer window. Required no Default value concluding Alias -o --testify-progress-in-taskbar on|off|last Shows progress in taskbar. Required no Default value last Alias -y --practice-not-continue-awake on|off|last Practise not keep the computer awake while the timer is running. Required no Default value last Alias -chiliad --show-in-notification-area on|off|last Shows an icon for the app in the notification area (system tray). Required no Default value terminal Alias -north --reverse-progress-bar on|off|last Reverses the direction of the progress bar, causing it to run backwards. Required no Default value last Allonym -g --show-time-elapsed on|off|last Shows the time elapsed since the timer was started, rather than the fourth dimension left until the timer expires. Required no Default value terminal Alias -u --loop-timer on|off|final Loops the timer when information technology expires. Required no Default value concluding Alias -l --pop-up-when-expired on|off|last Pops upward the timer window when the timer expires. Required no Default value last Alias -p --close-when-expired on|off|last Closes the timer window when the timer expires. Required no Default value terminal Allonym -e --shut-down-when-expired on|off Shuts down windows when the timer expires. Required no Default value off Allonym -10 --theme last|<theme> Sets the theme of the timer window. You tin specify the proper name of ane of the built-in themes, or the proper name of one of the themes that yous have defined yourself. The built-in themes are: crimson red-night orangish orangish-night yellow xanthous-dark greenish light-green-dark blue blue-dark majestic purple-dark gray greyness-dark black blackness-dark Required no Default value last Alias -m --sound none|last|<audio> Plays a sound when the timer expires. Required no Default value last Alias -s --loop-audio on|off|final Loops the sound that plays when the timer expires. Required no Default value last Alias -r --open-saved-timers on|off|last Opens all saved timers on starting time upward. Required no Default value last Alias -5 --adopt-24h-time on|off|last When the input used to start the timer contains a time of day that does not explicitly specify "am" or "pm", prefer interpreting the input every bit a 24-60 minutes time rather than the closest 12-hr time to the electric current time. For instance, if the current time is 3:00 pm (15:00) and the input is "until 05:00" the timer will -- - if this setting is on, count downwards until five:00 am (05:00); or - if this setting is off, count downwards until 5:00 pm (17:00). Required no Default value concluding Allonym -j --window-title none|app|left|elapsed|title|last Sets the timer window title. The options are: none Hides the timer window title bar. app Application name left Time remaining elapsed Time elapsed title Timer championship left+title Time remaining · Timer title elapsed+title Fourth dimension elapsed · Timer title championship+left Timer title · Time remaining title+elapsed Timer title · Time elapsed Required no Default value last Allonym -i --window-state normal|maximized|minimized|last Sets the state of the timer window. Required no Default value terminal Alias -w --window-bounds <left>,<pinnacle>,<width>,<elevation> Sets the size and position of the timer window. <left> and <top> specify the position of the window's left and top edges respectively in relation to the desktop in device-contained pixels. If you specify auto for either of the <left> or <superlative> values, the window volition exist positioned automatically. <width> and <height> specify the width and height of the window respectively in device-contained pixels. If yous specify auto for either of the <width> or <elevation> values, the window will be sized automatically. Required no Default value last Alias -b --lock-interface on|off Prevents the user from starting, pausing, stopping, or restarting the timer, changing the timer options, or closing the timer window until the timer expires. This option is never remembered. It must exist specified as a command-line argument each time the timer is started. Timers that are started with this option turned on never appear in the "Saved timers" list. Required no Default value off Alias -z --employ-mill-defaults If specified, any options that are not explicitly set with another switch are set to their factory default setting rather than the last used setting. The factory default settings are: --title (none) --always-on-elevation off --full-screen off --prompt-on-leave on --show-progress-in-taskbar on --do-non-keep-awake off --evidence-in-notification-area off --opposite-progress-bar off --testify-time-elapsed off --loop-timer off --pop-up-when-expired on --shut-when-expired off --shut-down-when-expired off --theme blueish --sound normal beep --loop-sound off --open-saved-timers off --adopt-24h-time off --window-title app --window-land normal --window-bounds automobile,car,350,150 --lock-interface off Required no Alias -d --assist Shows this message. Required no Alias -h, -?
What are the Hourglass system requirements?
Processor: 1 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
Disk space: 600 MB (32-bit), 1.five GB (64-fleck)
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or x
Runtime: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.viii
Other software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later on, Windows Installer 3.ane or after
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