Hourglass is easy-to-use, customizable, and feature-rich countdown timer. It offers smart input, supports pause and resume and can run multiple timers simultaneously. All used timers are saved automatically for easy re-use. The interface includes optional timer title, themes (with the ability to create your own), colour customization.
You can minimize to tray and control from the tray, have the window stay-on-top, go full screen, pop-up, close or shutdown computer when expired, add sound notifications, keep computer awake, loop timer, loop sound, open saved timers on startup and more.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 |
Stealth: ? | No. HourglassPortable.exe.log in AppData (starting at least from Windows 8) |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT |
How to extract: | Download HourglassPortable.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
Similar/alternative apps: | SnapTimer, XgD's Countdown, XNote Timer, TTclock |
What's new? |
Resolve #218: System.NotSupportedException on Windows 8.1 Resolve #78: Add About dialog Resolve #213: "Update" button not scaling with the rest of the UI Fix usage text for --use-factory-defaults Resolve #210: InvalidWmpVersionException on start when no WMP installed Resolve #97: Add option to remove Window frame/title bar Resolve #164: Add option to disable progress display in taskbar Resolve #183: Add "Reverse progress bar" option Resolve #187: Fix minimize button not working Resolve #202: Fix crash due to invalid Width property Resolve #204: Add option to prefer 24-hour time when parsing Resolve #206: Fix minimize, maximize, and close buttons still functional when title bar is hidden Resolve #207: Check for updates via HTTPS Resolve #208: Fix Crash loop if Hourglass closed while full screen with no title option enabled Resolve #209: Fix "Full screen" option not working if window is already maximized Show title in center of screen when timer expires Do not show "Click to enter title" when the timer expires Add "Restore", "Minimize", and "Maximize" menu options when full screen Use immersive dark mode on Windows 10 for dark themes Parse strings like "until 00:10:30" as "until 12:10:30 am" Parse times without am/pm contextually (this ensures that, for example, "1:30" gets parsed as "1:30 am" at midnight and "1:30 pm" at noon) Report media errors to the user Update to .NET Framework 4.5 Update code signing certificate thumbprint and timestamp URL |
Been looking for a desktop program like this. It uses virtually the same interface as e.ggtimer.com, which I've been using for while.
v1.8.0