UpTime - Float Timer Stopwatch

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About this app

UpTime puts a floating timer or stopwatch on screen, over any app you use.

Play a game, time a speedrun, follow a recipe, run a workout, study in 25-minute focus blocks (Pomodoro-style), give a presentation. The time stays where you can see it, and it is still there when you switch apps.


IT KEEPS COUNTING

The usual failure of a floating timer is that it quietly stops. UpTime never counts seconds itself: it reads the time from your device's own clock every time it draws, so there is nothing to stop.

Tested on a real phone: it keeps time with the screen off, when you switch apps, when Android closes the app to free memory, and across a full restart. If the system ever delivers a finish late (the device was asleep or restarted, or your manufacturer's battery settings held it back), UpTime tells you instead of pretending otherwise.


TIME LEFT AT A GLANCE

The bubble's own outline drains as a countdown runs, so it works as a visual timer: you can see how much is left without reading the numbers.


MULTIPLE TIMERS AT ONCE

• Up to 20 timers and stopwatches at the same time
• One bubble per running timer, up to six on screen
• Three bubble sizes and seven colours
• Labels, favourites, presets and recent durations
• Separate opacity for when you are using it and when you are not


TIMER

• Presets at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 25 and 30 minutes
• Any duration from 1 second to 99:59:59
• +10 seconds, +1 minute, restart and stop, straight from the bubble
• Optional count-up after zero, so you can see how long ago it finished
• Alarm sound, vibration and an on-screen alert, each optional


STOPWATCH

• Laps and splits, with the fastest and slowest marked
• Seconds, tenths or hundredths
• Correct the elapsed time by hand if a restart ever leaves it wrong


CONTROLS THAT DON'T GO OFF BY ACCIDENT

Tapping the bubble opens the controls. It does not pause, reset or stop anything by itself. Reset and Stop sit inside the control card and ask for a second tap on a red button, so a stray touch can't cost you a running timer. If you prefer speed, there is an optional quick-tap setting: off by default, and never bound to Reset or Stop.


OUT OF THE WAY, STILL VISIBLE

Drag the bubble anywhere. Let go and it settles against the edge you choose, then shrinks into a slim tab that still shows the time. It expands again the moment you touch it, and whenever a timer finishes. You set how long it waits before each step.


FAST TO START

A Quick Settings tile and launcher shortcuts start your last timer, a five-minute timer or a stopwatch without opening the app. Tapping twice by mistake will not give you two timers.


PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION

UpTime has no internet permission, so it cannot send anything anywhere, and you can check the permission list yourself. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your timers, labels and settings stay on your device, and uninstalling deletes them. It cannot read your screen or see which apps you use.


WHAT IT CANNOT DO

Android hides all floating overlays over banking, payment, password and permission screens. The bubble disappears there and comes back afterwards. System bars, the keyboard and the notification shade also draw above it.

If you force stop UpTime in Android settings, its alarms are cancelled and running timers stop. Some manufacturers restrict background apps aggressively, which can delay a finish. Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones need a second permission of their own; the in-app help says exactly where.

UpTime is not an app blocker, screen-time limiter or parental control. It shows you the time.

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What’s new

• Fixed: one-tap start from a preset or recent chip started the form's previous duration instead of the chip's.
• Fixed: home screen shortcuts now start their timer even without "display over other apps" access; it runs from the notification.
• Fixed: rotating the phone during setup sent you back to the first step.