Free speech timerPractise the talk
at the length you will give it.

Set the real length, rehearse against it, and find out now whether it runs long. Full screen turns a laptop into a clock you can read from the lectern.

5 minutes remaining of 5 minutes

Giving talks regularly? Follow a plan to get better at it.

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

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Why rehearse against a clock.

Almost every talk runs long, because time moves differently when you are the one speaking. Rehearsing against the real length is the only reliable way to find out before the day, and it tells you what to cut: the section you always rush is the one that does not fit.

✦ What it is for

What people use a speech timer for.

Rehearsing a talk

Run it against the real length at least twice before the day.

Pitches

Two minutes means two minutes. Most decks find this out too late.

Speech clubs

Timed speeches for Toastmasters-style meetings and practice evenings.

Wedding speeches

Five minutes is plenty; this is how you check.

✦ How to

How to use the speech timer.

1

Pick a length

It starts at 5 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.

Getting better

One rehearsal helps. Twenty short talks change how you speak.

The public-speaking plan is built on repetition: short talks given often, recorded and watched back, until standing up in front of people feels ordinary. It installs in one click.

✦ Other timers

Timing something else?

Questions

The speech timer, answered.

Yes. Put the timer in full screen on a laptop or tablet in front of you. The ring empties as you go, which you can read at a glance mid-sentence. To share one clock with a chair or a room, use the presentation timer, which gives everyone the same link.
The ring is the warning: it empties visibly through the final minutes. The alarm sounds at zero, and you can mute it for a real talk.
As long as it is scheduled for, and no longer. If there is no limit, shorter is almost always better: five minutes for a wedding toast, two for a pitch, ten to twenty for most talks.
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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