Percentime
Spans filling as they pass
From today to the 2020s, a scale that fills as far as time has gone
01
The calendar opens six spans for you
Open the app and today, this week, this month, this quarter and this year are already there. You enter no start and no goal. The moment a span ends, the next one opens.
- Six spans with nothing to enter
- The next span opening after midnight
- Cells behind youTime set in ink
- The cell nowThe one place the accent sits
- Cells aheadLeft open in a pale line
A day24 hours
This year12 months
02
The span is cut into cells
A percentage alone is hard to place. So the span is cut to the unit one step down. A day is 24 hours, this week is 7 days, this quarter is 14 weeks, this year is 12 months. Spans that do not land on calendar units get their units grouped instead.
- Cells cut to the unit one step down
- Decimal places matched to the span
- One ring of cells on the full screen
03
Read it from the Lock Screen
Three Lock Screen widgets, three Home Screen widgets, and a stack widget that holds several spans at once. Every size carries the timer name, so you know which span the percentage belongs to. Touch and hold a timer widget, open Edit Widget and choose Latest timer, and it keeps showing the timer you made most recently. The same widgets come up large in StandBy. Turn the phone sideways and the app itself switches to a black screen with the ring and a large percentage. They redraw at the very moment the number changes, so at noon the day reads exactly 50 percent.
- Lock Screen circular, rectangular and inline
- Home Screen small, medium and large
- Redrawn as the percentage changes
04
Pick how you read it
The same span can be read several ways. Tap the number on the full screen and the readings you picked come round in turn. You set the decimal places on the progress reading with one tap on a row of cells from 0 to 6: one place as it comes, the second onward with Pro.
- Years, months, days and a clock
- One unit as a decimal
- Progress in percent
- Full moons, weekends, springs, birthdays (Pro)
- until 2Until the next 2 o'clock
- 3 hoursFrom now until 3 hours later
- meeting 1 hour 30 minutesTitled meeting, 1 hour 30 minutes long
From now wheel1 min to 23 hr 59 min
05
Say it, and the start and goal fill in
Tap the three-strand icon at the top right of New Timer and the app starts listening at once. Say "until 2", "3 hours" or "meeting 1 hour 30 minutes", stop, and the start, goal and title fill in. You tap Save yourself. The icon is there in every app language except the 11 that have no Apple speech recognizer.
By hand, you choose between "From now" and "Start and goal". With "From now" you turn only an hours and minutes wheel, and the count starts the moment you save. Leave the title blank and it takes a number, as in "Timer 1" and "Timer 2".
Put the Voice Timer button in Control Center, in a control spot at the bottom of the Lock Screen or on the Action button, and one press opens the app on New Timer, already listening. In the Shortcuts app, give the Make a Timer action a phrase such as "until Friday 6pm" and the timer is made without opening the app.
- Start, goal and title from one spoken line
- An hours and minutes wheel for From now
- Numbered titles for timers left unnamed
Percentime Pro
Timers without a count limit, repeating spans, life units
and a notice at the point you choose
- Hours by weekday: nine to six Monday through Thursday, nine to three on Friday. One such timer works without Pro
- Timers without a count limit: three of your own to begin with
- Repeating spans for every day, week, month or year
- Life units: full moons, weekends, springs, birthdays
- Decimal places from the second to the sixth
- Span alerts at 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent
Support
Questions and contact details are on the support page.