Free nap timerA short nap,
and an alarm that means it.

Set a power nap, put the phone face down, and get an alarm that keeps going until you stop it. No app to install and no account.

20 minutes remaining of 20 minutes

Needing a nap every day? Start with the night.

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Keeps time in a background tab. Works on a phone. No account, no ads.

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Why twenty minutes.

A short nap of ten to twenty minutes tends to leave you more alert without the heavy, groggy feeling that can follow a longer one. Longer naps take you into deeper sleep, which is harder to wake from. If you want the longer rest, around ninety minutes is roughly one full sleep cycle. Add a few minutes to whichever you pick to account for falling asleep.

✦ What it is for

What people use a nap timer for.

An afternoon power nap

Twenty minutes after lunch, instead of a third coffee.

Before a late night

A short nap before an evening shift or a long drive.

A full cycle

Ninety minutes when there is time for proper rest rather than a top-up.

Rest without sleep

Ten minutes with your eyes closed still counts as a break.

✦ How to

How to use the nap timer.

1

Pick a length

It starts at 20 minutes. The presets underneath switch to another length in one click, and the custom field takes any number of minutes.

2

Press start

The ring starts emptying and the tab title counts down, so you can see the time left from another tab.

3

Leave it running

Switch tabs, lock the phone, let the laptop sleep. It counts to a fixed end time, so it stays correct.

4

Get the alarm at zero

A chime repeats until you stop it, and a browser notification arrives if you allowed one. Reset to go again.

At night

If you need a nap every day, look at the night.

Regular daytime sleepiness is often a sign that the night is not working. The fix-your-sleep plan sets a fixed wake time and a wind-down that starts before you are tired, then gives it four weeks to judge. It installs in one click.

✦ Other timers

Timing something else?

Questions

The nap timer, answered.

Ten to twenty minutes is the usual advice for a power nap, because it is short enough to wake from easily. Set a few minutes longer than that to allow for falling asleep.
It repeats rather than sounding once, for up to a minute, and a browser notification arrives too if you allow one. Keep the volume up and do not mute the timer. For anything important, set your phone's own alarm as a backup.
It keeps correct time on a locked phone or in a background tab. Whether the sound plays with the screen locked depends on the phone and the browser, so check once before relying on it.
Yes. No account, no ads, and nothing to install.

The timer is the easy part.
Doing it again tomorrow is not.

EvyOS holds the goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills the timer is in service of, and keeps the streak of the sessions you actually did.

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