Timer - Instant Timer
howeaj
Watchapp
Description
Stopwatch / Alarm / Timer combo designed for quick launch. For everyday use for cooking, reminders and alarms. Touch controls; set with two swipes! Packed with unique, detailed behaviour to optimise easy frequent use.
!NEW! Touch controls (PT2/PR2): Set a timer or alarm with just two swipes!
- Touch, hold and drag to select hours then minutes
- Start touching from the middle to set a timer duration, or from the edge to set an alarm time
- To cancel, finish touching in the middle or don't select any minutes
Specifically, this does 3 things I couldn't find anywhere else:
- Start counting immediately on launch
- Show all 4 relevant values (alarm time, duration, remaining, elapsed) at all times
- Modify the duration at any point without any pause or confirmation
Other features:
- Timer modification controls optimised for speed (1h, 5m, 1m increments)
- Configuration options:
- Colours / themes
- Touch enable/disable and timeout
- Battery saving:
- Auto switch between seconds/minutes update rate, synced with backlight and/or remaining time
- Zero background power use
- Auto-cancel alarm vibe after 1m
- Runs in background, auto-opens for alarm
- Counts overtime after alarm vibe
- After expiry, set a new alarm from the same base just by increasing the duration again
- Short vibe on start/stop for blind operation
- Glance info in system app launcher
- Pause, resume, restart, reset
- Round and rect, black, white and colour pebbles
Controls:
- Select/Back to choose modification digits (15/30 seconds available while under 2/5mins)
- Up/Down to increment/decrement. Hold to repeat. Down at 0 wraps up.
- Select Long-press (or Press at lowest digit)
to toggle pause/resume and enter "control mode":
- Up (rewind icon) to restart the timer (i.e. set elapsed time to 0)
while retaining the timer/alarm duration
- Up Long-press to reset the entire app to 0
- Select (play/pause icon) to pause/resume counting
- Down (X icon) to discard timer/alarm and exit the app
- Back to return to timer modification
- Back while at the largest digit to exit with options:
- Up/Back (save icon) to save and exit
- Down (X icon) to discard timer/alarm and exit the app
- Select (> icon) to return to timer modification
- Back Long-press to save and exit
- Any button to dismiss alarm bell
This app is great if you want to:
- Set a generic egg timer running fast without looking in the middle of cooking,
and then change it as you go along
- Often quickly set an alarm clock to remind you about something in the near future
- Set a wakeup alarm quick at a varying time just before you go to sleep
- Do all of the above with a single app using one quick-launch slot
Use (a) different app(s) if you want:
- More than one alarm/timer/stopwatch at once i.e. multi timers
- To slowly set a timer/alarm to a long but precise time
- Automatically repeat alarms daily/weekly
- Millisecond precision
- Sports-stopwatch split times / lap times
- A history of previously set times
- Voice control
Suggestions for further improvements welcome, open source btw.
Thanks for checking this out! Let me know if you end up using it :)
- Developerhoweaj
- CategoryTools & Utilities
- PlatformsOG Pebble, Steel, Time/Time Steel, Time Round, 2, 2 Duo, Time 2, Round 2
- Updated2026-05-08
- Version2.3.0




