![]() While you work, your phone needs to be face down or the timer won’t run. BFT (Bear Focus Timer) helps get you in the zone by way of work/break sprint timers.īy default, focus sessions last 25 minutes breaks last for five. Productivity sometimes isn’t so much about a looming deadline as ensuring you’re in the moment, focusing on the right things. Premium nets heavy users iCloud sync, lists, custom notification sounds and directional indicators. This app lets you add highly customizable timers that countdown to key events (or up from those you want to remember), which can be placed on your Home Screen or Apple Watch. ![]() But for really important stuff, an ongoing reminder is a better way to get your mind in gear – hence, Countdowns. If you want more – or fancy iCloud sync and data export – the one-off IAP represents good value.ĭropping events into your calendar is great, and it’s possible to manually add alerts. On iPhone, this comfortably holds six timers. It’s also generous – the free incarnation merely limiting you to a single board. Multiple timers can run simultaneously.ĭespite its wealth of options, the app is clean and efficient. You can add all kinds of timers to the board – countdown interval Pomodoro – and give each its own color, label and icon. The polar opposite to Apple’s single timer, MultiTimer is all about deep customization. ![]() Get McClockface MultiTimer (free or $8/£8) Recommended if you want something beyond a visually basic clock. Styles include memes, old-school Mac windows, blueprints and a panel that appears to have escaped from the time machine in Back to the Future. But when you add its widgets to your Home Screen, the app drops any pretense at minimalism, becoming a design playground. In its app incarnation, McClockface is a smart-looking flip clock with a simple calendar – adding a year progress indicator on iPad. Get Living Earth McClockface ($5.99/£4.99) In all, the result feels more desk toy than traditional clock – which makes Living Earth a good bet if your iPhone spends its day propped up in a stand. You can further explore weather conditions or replace the clouds with wind and temperature. Where night’s fallen, those parts of the globe are shrouded in darkness – all faint continent outlines and amber lights. If visual clout is your thing, Living Earth combines a world clock with a virtual planet you spin beneath a finger. Get Time Zone Pro Living Earth ($4.99/£4.49) This makes it a cinch to figure out optimal moments where you’ll all be awake for video chats. You can also drag a bar to simultaneously change the time of every clock. If you’ve friends and colleagues around the globe, you’ll see the benefit. These can be assigned to custom groups and have avatars too. Time Zone Pro is more concerned with who lives in those places, having you associate a name with each clock. The two previous apps display the time in various locations. Get The Clocks Time Zone Pro ($3.99/£3.49) Otherwise, The Clocks is a superb full-screen display clock, generously given away for free. Those are a weak spot – stick with Apple’s. Tap the bottom of the screen to access alarms. In the settings, you can turn off any of these, and opt for 12- or 24-hour modes.ĭouble-tap the top half of the screen and you’ll discover the world clock, with six user-definable time zones. Presumably, no-one at Apple HQ has ever cooked a complex meal.īlissfully free from ads and junk – unlike most third-party iPhone clocks – The Clocks kicks off with you swiping between analog, flip clock and 1980s-style LED faces. The stopwatch is solid, but the timer is a joke, bafflingly being limited to just the one. Sadly, there’s no full-screen clock for a docked device.Įlsewhere, you get an alarm system, which integrates with Apple’s Bedtime feature, to help you build a routine. On iPhone, clocks are presented as a list on iPad, you get a world map, with a visual day/night cycle. More world clock than desktop clock, Apple’s app lets you track the time in multiple locations. This round-up looks at what Clock has to offer, and what’s available on the App Store to take things further. Chances are you spend your life doing tasks at specific times – and your iPhone is in part to blame, given that it has the Clock app baked in.īut Apple’s app is far from the only option to help you keep good time, set alarms and trigger timers. Think you’re not beholden to clocks? Sure.
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