Free reading timerTwenty minutes.
One book. Every day.

Set a reading session, read until the alarm, and stop there if you want to. The point is the daily habit, not the marathon.

20 minutes remaining of 20 minutes

Want to read every day? Make it a daily habit.

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

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Why a timer for reading.

Most people who want to read more do not need more time; they need a reason to start. Twenty minutes is small enough to fit into almost any day and adds up to a lot of books over a year. A timer turns "I should read" into a session with a beginning and an end, which is much easier to keep doing.

✦ What it is for

What people use a reading timer for.

A daily reading habit

Twenty minutes at the same time each day, most often before bed or on the commute.

Children's reading practice

Ten or fifteen minutes of reading aloud, with a visible end they can see coming.

Reading for study

A session with the book and a notebook, then a break.

Replacing the scroll

The same twenty minutes that would have gone to the phone.

✦ How to

How to use the reading 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.

Every day

A reading session is nice. A reading streak is a year of books.

Make reading a daily habit in EvyOS and it tracks the streak for you, forgives the odd missed day rather than resetting to zero, and shows a year of reading at a glance.

✦ Other timers

Timing something else?

Questions

The reading timer, answered.

Whatever you will actually keep doing. Twenty minutes a day is a common target because it fits into most days and adds up; ten is fine to start. Consistency matters more than length.
Yes. Set ten or fifteen minutes and put it in full screen, so they can see the ring empty. It is free, needs no account and has no ads.
Yes. It keeps time in a background tab or on a locked phone, and sounds an alarm at zero.
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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