Timer is your perfect companion for board games, sport, cooking, meditation or whatever activity that needs a precision and powerful timer.
It can be mainly used for short time delays, defined in hours/minutes and SECONDS.
Unlike the build-in timer, the following useful functionalities are added :
- The time can be defined with a seconds precision.
- The timer can be paused and resumed.
- The timer can be looped.
- Portrait and Landscape visualisation modes are handled in all application screens.
- The timer can be used when silence is needed thanks to a flashing screen.
- When the timer ends, different actions can be performed (popup display, screen flashing, alarm sound, looping alarm sound, vibration)
- When the timer is done, the time is still displayed, allowing to know since how long the timer elapsed.
- Different dedicated alarm sounds can be used (Bell, Cooking timer, Watch, Gong, Danger, ...)
- Custom musics/sounds can be selected from the iPod library to be used as alarms.
- Shepard tones can also be used : those tones creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch.
- Possibility to define multiple special events that will be triggered when the timer is running.
Sounds, vibrations (if supported) and messages can be notified at any time thanks to a complex time scheduling system.
Here are some events you'll be able to create :
"Play a Gong sound 30 seconds before end" "Every 10 seconds during 1 minute, produce a sound with an increasing pitch" "Play a tic tac sound every seconds" "Once One-half the time is elapsed, play an iPod song and show a custom message on the screen"
The Tic Tac sound is generated by default thanks to a special event. To disable it, in the Timer app, go to "Settings"->"Events"->"Every seconds - Play Old tic tac" and set "Enabled" to "NO".
In case, the application quits while a timer is active, the timer will still be active at the application restart.
(Like every OS 3.1 AppStore application, Timer cannot run in background : no notification can be triggered if the application is not active. however, a new free update is planned to be compatible with OS4.0 local notifications)
If you are looking for an much less complex to use Timer application (with less options) check out "Background Timer" application (already compatible with iOS4 local notifications).
What's new in Version 2.3
* Fixes a sporadic crash that appeared while changing some settings.
* Do not leave the application anymore when the About web view is displayed.