About Online Time Tool
Online Time Tool is a small set of time tools that run entirely in your browser. No account, nothing to install, and nothing you type leaves your device.
Why it exists
Because the free timer you find by searching is usually worse than it needs to be. The common failures are always the same: the page is slow to load and covered in advertising, the reading is too small to see from across a room, and, most annoying of all, the timer stops counting the moment you switch to another tab, which is exactly when you need it to keep going.
That last one is not a small bug. A timer is something you start and then walk away from. If it only works while you are watching it, it is a clock with extra steps. Fixing it properly was the first thing built here, before any of the tools: every countdown on this site works out its reading from a deadline on your system clock, so a hidden tab, a browser saving battery or a laptop that went to sleep all arrive at the same answer.
How it is built
Static HTML with a small amount of JavaScript, served from a content delivery network. There is no backend, no database and no account system, which is why the pages load quickly, why the tools keep working when your connection drops, and why there is nothing here that could leak your data even if someone wanted it to.
The whole site is checked on every build against a set of rules: that every internal link goes somewhere real, that no page claims a translation that does not exist, that no third party script is loaded without being declared, and that the list of things stored in your browser matches what the privacy policy says. Those checks exist because each of them caught something that was actually broken.
Who builds it
Online Time Tool is built and run by Saugata Singh, an independent developer. It is not a company with a support desk, so if something is wrong the fastest way to get it fixed is to say so directly: hello@onlinetimetool.com. Bug reports that include your browser and what you were doing get fixed quickest.
How it is paid for
The running cost is a domain name, because the hosting for a static site of this size is free. The plan is to cover that with a small amount of advertising, kept to at most two slots per page and never inside a tool. No tool will be put behind a payment, and there will not be an account to make.
What is here
The tools
- Timer Set a length and let it run. Presets, a custom duration, and an alert that still fires from another tab.
- Stopwatch Count up with laps, splits and hundredths. Copy the whole table when you are done.
- Pomodoro Focus sessions with breaks in between, your own lengths, and a count of the rounds.
- Countdown Count down to a date or an event. The link carries the date, so you can share the same countdown.
- Interval timer Rounds of work and rest, with the last three seconds of each one counted aloud.
- Alarm clock An alarm for a time of day. It survives a reload and rings until you stop it.