For reliable sound and alarms, keep Kitchen Timer visible on your screen. Minimized windows or background tabs may not play audio reliably due to browser limitations.
Options
Time Display
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Time Format
Enter font name or choose a common font . . .
Common Fonts
Title
Enter font name or choose a common font . . .
Common Fonts
Advanced Settings
Advanced Settings let you customize every part of your Kitchen Timer. Change only what you need, everything else works out of the box. ✔ indicates settings you've changed from their default values.
Help
Our Timers have a 20-year heritage and have been used millions of times. We've improved them by expanding alarm features, fine-tuning the timing engine, adding more visual
controls, making them fully resizable, and allowing you to use any web-accessible MP3 file as your alarm. They now also support Light and Dark modes.
It is still the same great online timer it has always been - able
to count down or up, loop or not, with or without an alarm, and easy to use.
Features
Direction
Count down or up, and through zero
Range
Start and stop from -99:59:59 to +99:59:59
Accuracy
Timing engine stays accurate when the computer is overloaded or paused
Resizable
Adjust window to resize timer
Easy Entry
Enter time values as 1h 1:15 95s 5m 1:23:17 1.23.17 1,23,17, or 1 23 17
Alarms
Use our sounds or audio files on the web, set a cycle count and the volume
Audio
Use precise WebAudio API engine for our sounds
Restart
Option to automatically restart timer when reset
Loop
Option to continuously loop timer
Save
Bookmark multiple timer versions with your settings, then share with others
Display
Settings to control color, font, size, shadow and bold
Title
Set to any text, or turn off title and tagline for a cleaner look
Settings
Changes are automatically saved
Shortcuts
Space-bar for start/stop, escape key for reset, or set your own keys in advanced settings
Formats
Select from many time formats, including always show seconds, or always show minutes:seconds
Dark Mode
Timer supports light &dark mode for most lighting conditions
Chroma Key
Set background to any color for video chroma keying use
Customize
Set colors and/or background image for a complete custom look
Keep Timer Visible for Sound
For reliable sound and alarms, keep this timer visible on your screen. Minimized windows or background tabs will not play audio reliably.
Automatic Counting Direction
Count down by making the start time greater than the stop
time – from 1:00 to 0. Count up by making the start time less than the stop time – from 0 to 1:00. Valid
start and stop times are from -99:59:59 to +99:59:59.
Negative Time
You can count from a positive to a negative time, or vice versa – from 30:00 to -5:00. Handy
for meetings or lectures, where the speaker can see how much time they have used beyond their allotted time. You can also time from a negative to a positive value – from -1:00 to 30:00. Useful
to give time to set up an exam, contest or experiment.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The timer has three running controls: Start, Stop, and Reset. We have three shortcuts for these and their default settings are . . .
Start Timer: Space
Stop Timer: Space
Reset Timer: Escape
Since the Start/Stop timer control is one button, you can assign start and stop the same keyboard key, like space. This
means you can start and stop the timer by just tapping the space-bar. Keyboard shortcuts can be changed in Advanced Settings.
Accuracy
This is our most accurate timer yet. The timing engine is not affected by
a busy computer or if your tab/window is minimized.
But with that said, nothing is infallible. It is up to you to ascertain the accuracy of your device's internal clock and our timer on your device. Even if your computer's internal clock is accurate, we
cannot guarantee timer accuracy.
For complete timer help, see our detailed online help page with links to the topics below . . .
