Time Rise - Digital hourglass

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About this app

Time Rise is a digital hourglass: set a duration then flip your device upside down. The whole screen will fill up with a color of your choice just like the sand would fill up an hourglass. Flip your device on its side to pause the countdown or flip it upside down again to restart.

Time Rise additionally offers a wide variety of customization in the settings section, with multiple display, notification and timer start trigger options.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely brilliant! It is so simple and intuitive, just flip your phone to start the timer and the bar fills up. Once set it up, no need for a bunch of taps to start it, very low-friction. I have it set up to keep the screen on while in full screen while even hiding the timer text, so it is just the colored bar filling up, such a clean look without distractions! You can even put it on a wireless charger while using it, perfect combination. Highly recommend trying this out.

I need a 30 second timer for stretches and such. Yes, the clock app has a stopwatch but those buttons can be hard to hit when you're doing a plank and then you have to watch it. And here is the perfect app that doesn't even need one screen tap at all! Just flip the phone over for the next rep and I can easily set a sound that I can hear clearly so no looking required at all. Perfection. No ads, no fuss. I thought I'd have to write one myself but here it is already! Thank you!

So simple in design yet so intuitive. Does what it advertises without unnecessary bloat. I use it as a pomodoro timer when studying. I just lay my phone on a stand with the timer and let it do its thing. The simple design makes it so it isn't too distracting while at the same time keeping me aware of the timer without diverting too much attention. And the motion controls makes sure I don't have to interact with my phone more than I have to. 5 ⭐ all around for me!

What’s new

Fix dial-style picker dialog title cutoff