Toastmasters Timer

Federico Navarrete

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About this app

The best Toastmasters Timer with Table Topics for your meetings! It's simple, fast, inclusive, and accurate. It was developed by Federico Navarrete from The Leader Ship Toastmasters in Lodz, Poland.
https://fb.com/TheLeaderShipToastmasters

The Timer provides you with multiple options, i.e.:
⚡ Question of the Day (30s).
⚡ 4 to 6 min (Ice Breaker).
⚡ 5 to 7 min (Common).
⚡ 1 minute.
⚡ 1 to 1:30 minutes (Evaluator's introduction).
⚡ 2 to 3 minutes (Evaluation).
⚡ 5 to 6 minutes (General evaluation).
⚡ 1 to 2 minutes (Table topics).
⚡ 8 to 10 minutes.
⚡ 10 to 12 minutes.
⚡ 13 to 15 minutes.
⚡ 18 to 20 minutes.
⚡ Five Custom times. Create your own speeches for up to 100 hours.

But wait didn't I say that includes Table Topics before? Indeed, it has a Table Topics Mode with more than 500 topics powered by AI. The Timer is full of ideas for creating your unique sessions, debates, or own games, who knows! It's time that YOU become the Table Topics King or Queen 👑!

Furthermore, do you want more ideas on how to level up your timing role? Check my Prezi Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5qnvXALY_bLydoJ7zBcOJos_R6aK_6pw

And take your meetings to the next level!

Special features:
⚡ Vibrating when a time has been reached (optional).
⚡ Beeping when a time has been reached (optional).
⚡ Clapping when the max time has been exceeded (optional).
⚡ Pin your custom time (Android Oreo or above).

Color coding:
⚡ Light Green for speeches that didn't reach the minimum time (-30s), but still qualified in a contest (ONLY available in reports preview and exports/shares).
⚡ Green: The minimum time was reached.
⚡ Yellow: The optimal time was reached.
⚡ Red: The maximum time was reached.
⚡ Black for speeches that exceed the maximum time (+30s) and are disqualified in a contest (ONLY available in reports preview).

Extra options:
⚡ Pre-planned agenda. Create your meetings in advance.
⚡ Export the agenda to Excel and/or PDF.
⚡ Share the agenda by e-mail, clouds, etc.
⚡ Dark mode.
⚡ Color blindness options, Ninja Mode, Voice notifications, among others.

Furthermore, the core of the project is Open Source. So, feel free to submit your ideas on GitHub and hack it!

Lastly, is the Timer unavailable in your native language, what are you waiting to help us translate it?
https://poeditor.com/join/project/hJX2GTJNPv

Ratings and reviews

This app is great for timing Toastmasters talks, but it needs one more feature. Many phones, including mine, are set to turn off the screen after a minute or two of no interaction with the user. In this instance, the user is busy giving a talk and does not want to bother touching the phone once a minute. The app should keep the screen lighted up while timing is going on.

Feels glitchy. The timer stops if you rotate the screen, or if you switch to another app, so it doesn't work to start, then show the screen to others. It shouldn't care about screen orientation. The icons could be easily learned, but a text menu would be better. Also, there doesn't seem to be any way to create other times or change when colors show. We have a speaking club that is kinda like toastmasters, but not official.

The app already has the times for the most common speeches and allows you to customize the timer for speeches that don't fit any of the standard times. I really like that. It also keeps a history of the timings so you can easily give a report after or manually document them later.

What's new

New Table Topics Mode that allows you to get ideas for your impromptu speeches from the Extras menu!