Countdown Timer

The countdown timer runs an activity for a fixed length of time and tells you when it's up — a 20-minute nap, a 45-minute study block, 15 minutes of tidying up. Unlike Pomodoro there is no work/break cycle: you choose a duration, it counts down, it ends.

Countdown is a premium feature.

Starting a countdown

Open the Activities tab and select Countdown in the mode selector
Set the hours and minutes on the wheel. It starts at the duration you picked last time
Tap Start and pick the activity type

While it runs

The countdown fills the screen: the big number is the time left, the small one under it the time gone. The activity is tracked normally the whole time, so it lands in History like any other record.

Quit ends the countdown but not the activity: it keeps running as a usual timer on the Activities tab, where you stop it when you are done.

45 minutes of Study: 27:30 left, 17:30 gone

When the time is up

An alert sounds, the screen shows 00:00 and asks Need more time?

Set the minutes on the wheel and tap Add more to carry on
Tap Quit to end the countdown. The activity keeps running as a usual timer

Settings

Settings → Countdown:

Countdown — turn the mode on or off
Timers — the durations offered as presets, and the activity types the countdown can be used with
Alert sound — what plays when the time is up

Permissions

To fire the alert exactly on time even when the app isn't open, Android needs permission to schedule exact alarms. The app asks for it the first time you start a countdown; if you decline, the alert may arrive late.

Leaving the mode

Switching away from Countdown while a timer is running asks for confirmation, so you don't lose the countdown by tapping the wrong tab.