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at the same second for every team.

The quizmaster starts the round; every team holds the link and watches the same countdown on their own phone. Nobody gets to argue about whether time was up.

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Free for any number of people. Or run a timer just for yourself.

✦ The problem

Two timers are not one timer.

Every quiz has the same argument at the end of every round: one table was still writing. A clock that every team can see on its own phone ends that argument, and it lets the quizmaster get on with marking instead of watching the room.

✦ How it works

Three steps, no account.

1

Pick a length and press create

Give it a name if the room needs to know what the clock is for. Add a lead-in of a minute or two if people still have to open the link.

2

Send the link

It is copied for you. Paste it in the chat, the calendar invite, the slide, or open it on the screen at the front of the room. There is no room code and nothing for anyone to join.

3

Everyone finishes together

Every browser on the link reads the same countdown rather than keeping its own, so somebody who opens it late sees the time that is genuinely left. Pause it and the whole room stops; add five minutes and the whole room gets them.

✦ Where it earns its keep

What people share a timer for.

Pub and bar quizzes

Put the link on the screen by the bar and let teams open it too.

Classroom quizzes

A round of ten questions with the time visible on the board and on every device.

Online and hybrid quizzes

Everyone on the call opens the same link, so remote teams are not a few seconds behind.

Games nights

Timed rounds for anything, from drawing games to picture rounds.

✦ Plainly

One clock, not thirty copies.

The countdown is kept by the server, and every screen in the room is reading it rather than running its own. That is what makes the next three true at once.

A pause everybody sees

Pause, resume, add time or reset, and it lands on every screen within a couple of seconds. Not your copy of the timer, the timer.

A wrong clock cannot break it

Every reply carries the server’s own time, and each browser corrects for the gap. A laptop set four minutes fast still finishes with the room.

Only you can change it

The controls belong to the browser that created the timer, never to the link. Thirty people can hold the link and none of them can stop the lesson.

And still: nobody signs in, there is no room to join and no code to type, no limit on how many people open it, and the only thing stored is a length and whatever you called it — deleted a day after the countdown ends.

✦ Also useful

Other ways to use a shared clock.

Or a plain timer, just for you

✦ When the meeting ends

A shared clock is easy.
Shared work is the hard part.

The timer is free and always will be. What it cannot do is remember what the twenty minutes decided, or whose job the outcome became.

That is a shared workspace: goals, projects and tasks that belong to the group rather than to whoever created them, assignable to a person, with habits that keep a separate streak for everybody so nobody breaks anyone else’s. One subscription covers five people, and it is on your bill rather than theirs.

Questions

Shared timers, answered.

Yes. Create the timer, share the link, and each phone counts down to the same second. There is no limit on how many people open it and nothing to install.
No. Only the quizmaster's browser holds the control, so the teams can watch the time but not change it.
Yes. Reset it for the next round, or name each round when you create it so the screen says which one is running.
The shared timer counts in whole minutes. For quick-fire questions, run one timer for the whole round instead, which is how most quizzes are paced anyway.
No. Free, no account, no ads.

The clock is the easy half.
Keep the other half somewhere.

EvyOS holds the goals, projects, tasks and habits a shared workspace actually runs on. The timer stays free regardless.

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