HowLong? - Time and timers
Timers with a sense of wonder
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
How long until? How long since? How long, really?
HowLong? is a love letter to time. It's a timer app, yes — a really good one — but it's also an invitation to notice the strange, beautiful thing that time actually is.
COUNT ANYTHING, IN ANY DIRECTION
Count down to the moments you can't wait for. Count up from the moments you never want to forget — or the ones that changed everything. Weddings, launches, exams, first steps. Days sober. Days since your last cigarette. Some numbers are worth watching grow, one hard-won day at a time. Track them all with flexible timers, Live Activities, and widgets that keep your moments in sight.
FOCUS, YOUR WAY
Work with time instead of against it. Classic Pomodoro sessions for deep focus, or Ultradian timing that flows with your body's natural rhythm. Track your streaks, log your sessions, and watch the hours add up to something.
PRESETS FOR EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN
Religious dates, holidays, seasons, pregnancy milestones, financial deadlines, when can I collect state pension (UK) — and history. When my son asked "how many years since the Great Fire of London?" and "how many days since we invented the aeroplane?", we didn't want a fact, we wanted a counter — a number still ticking. Now it's a preset.
TIME, IN CONTEXT
This is where HowLong? gets a little cosmic:
The Cosmic Calendar — squeeze all 13.8 billion years of the universe into a single year, and watch all of human history flash by in the final seconds of December 31st
Your Life as One Day — if your whole life were 24 hours, what time is it right now? (It's earlier than you think.)
Living counters — how far Earth has carried you around the Sun, how many times your heart has beaten, how many breaths you've taken while reading this sentence
How to Slow Down Time — why summers felt longer when you were small, and what science says about making time feel rich and full again
Time is the one thing we all spend and none of us can save. HowLong? won't give you more of it — but it might just help you feel it.
How long have you got?
Terms of Use (EULA): https://philsellars.github.io/Developer/howlong-eula.html
Privacy Policy: https://philsellars.github.io/Developer/howlong-privacy-policy.html
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Added German language support.
New presets, and bug fix on several religious timers to ensure countdowns are always in the future.
The developer, Phillip Sellars, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Phillip Sellars
- Size
- 3.8 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium $3.99
- Copyright
- © PSLabs 2026
