Meeting Timer
Keep meetings on time with agenda stages, warnings, overtime tracking and a fullscreen display.
Stages
Total: 40 min
Options
Leave a field blank to disable that warning.
05:00
Review your stages and press Start.
Introduction
Stage 1 of 4
Next: Discussion
For the best chance of hearing the alert, keep this tab open and active, keep the device awake, and ensure sound is allowed. Backgrounding the tab may delay or prevent the alert.
Keyboard shortcuts
- Space — Start, pause or resume
- R — Restart from the full duration
- F — Enter or exit fullscreen
- M — Mute or unmute the alert
How this timer works
Opens with a ready-made agenda — Introduction, Discussion, Decisions, Wrap-up — each stage its own duration. Edit the stages, add or remove one, or switch back to a single timer if you just need one block of time.
Stage changes are manual by default: when a stage's time runs out, the display switches to counting up as OVERTIME instead of silently jumping ahead, so a facilitator decides when to move on with a visible "Next stage" click rather than losing track of an overrun mid-discussion.
Warning thresholds (10 and 5 minutes by default) apply to whichever stage is currently running, and the fullscreen display keeps the current stage, its warning state and any overtime clearly visible from across the room.
Copy Setup Link shares the agenda and timing so someone else can open the exact same starting point. Because stage changes are manual, live progress can't be reconstructed from a link the way an automatic countdown can — sharing a link starts a fresh copy of the setup, not a synced view of an in-progress meeting.
Frequently asked questions
What happens when an agenda stage runs over?
The display switches to OVERTIME and counts up from that stage's own end point instead of auto-advancing. Nothing is lost — click "Next stage" whenever you're ready to move on, or "Finish sequence" on the final stage.
Can I automatically advance meeting stages?
Yes — switch "Stage changes" to Automatically in Options. Meetings default to manual because overruns are common and usually worth seeing, but automatic advancing is available whenever you'd rather the timer move on by itself.
Can I share this meeting's timer with attendees?
Copy Setup Link shares the agenda and starting configuration for someone else to run themselves. Live sharing (a synced, already-running view) isn't available for manual stage changes, since progress depends on when the facilitator clicks Next — switch to automatic stage changes if you need a live-synced link.
Does switching tabs, minimizing the browser, or the device sleeping affect this timer?
Yes, and it depends on which of those three things happens — they're not the same. If the tab merely goes to the background or is minimized while staying open, on-screen updates pause (the display doesn't repaint while hidden), but the countdown keeps advancing against a monotonic timestamp, not a repeating tick — when you return, the remaining time normally recalculates correctly and the display catches straight up. The audible alert doesn't get the same free pass: the browser may suspend or throttle it enough that it plays late, only once you're back, or not at all. Device sleep or a locked screen is a different, less predictable case: neither that catch-up nor the alert firing at all is guaranteed there, since what actually happens to a paused browser tab across a real system sleep depends on the browser and operating system, not this page. Closing or reloading the tab or browser is different again, not just less reliable — nothing about this timer is saved, so the countdown itself is cancelled, not paused: there's no state left to catch up and no alert that can fire. For the best chance of hearing the alert, keep this tab open and active, keep the device awake, and ensure sound is allowed. Backgrounding the tab may delay or prevent the alert.