RetroDotTimer

Countdown, Pomodoro, stopwatch

Free · In-App Purchases

Share a running timer as a link and whoever opens it watches the same countdown in their browser, no app needed. Plus Blocks, a timer gallery, and 14 days of Pro free. A full-screen countdown that looks like the dot-matrix displays of vintage arcades and early computing. Set the time, put your iPhone or iPad face up on your desk, and let the pixel grid count down. ONE TIMER, FULL SCREEN • A large dot-matrix countdown, readable across the room • Tap the display to start, pause, or resume — or turn on the Start/Pause button if you prefer one • Optional landscape mode that fills the whole screen • Keep the screen awake while a timer runs, with an only-while-charging option LOCK SCREEN AND DYNAMIC ISLAND • The Live Activity shows a real dot-matrix face, not a plain text label • It counts down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • It follows the color scheme you chose in the app, including changes made mid-run • At zero it morphs into a checkmark and chimes once WIDGETS, CONTROLS, AND SIRI • A Home Screen widget that mirrors the timer, display-only • Control Center buttons to start a Pomodoro or a preset without opening the app • Siri and Shortcuts: start a timer, a preset, a Pomodoro, or the stopwatch, and pause, resume, or reset TIMER MODES • Presets: 5, 10, 25, and 45 minutes • Custom duration, 1 to 180 minutes • Classic Pomodoro: 25 minutes of work, 5-minute breaks, a 15-minute long break, 4 rounds • Stopwatch with a live hundredths-of-a-second sub-display • Multi-phase custom timers for intervals, rounds, and routines DISPLAY STYLES • Dot Matrix — the original pixel grid, with adjustable dot weight and square or round dots • 7-Segment — slanted LED calculator digits • Flip Clock — split-flap digits with animated transitions (Pro) • Big & Small — blocky digits with size-varied segments (Pro) COLOR • Transparent, Dark, and Light schemes • Six premium schemes: Amber, Green Terminal, Blue Glow, VFD Cyan, Sunset, Neon Pink (Pro) • Any text and background color you like (Pro) • Multicolored digits with Rainbow, Pastel, Neon, and Sunset palettes (Pro) WHEN TIME IS UP • Freeze at 00 or morph into a checkmark • A notification when the countdown ends • Sound and haptic alerts between Pomodoro and custom-timer phases WHAT THIS IS NOT Retro Dot Timer runs one timer at a time. No task lists, no labels, no session history, no analytics, no cloud sync. It is a single, quiet countdown. PRIVACY No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection. Everything works offline. FREE AND PRO The app is a free download and stays useful forever without paying. Presets, custom durations, the Dot Matrix and 7-Segment displays, square dots, Pomodoro, the stopwatch, the widget, Control Center buttons, Siri shortcuts, and the Live Activity are all free. Pro is a single one-time purchase, never a subscription. On iPhone and iPad it adds the Custom Timer Editor, six premium color schemes, custom colors, multicolored digits, and the Flip Clock and Big & Small displays. Pro is a Universal Purchase — the same payment unlocks the Mac menu-bar app. Every Pro feature is unlocked free for 14 days, starting automatically at first launch. No signup, no payment details. When the trial ends nothing is charged, Pro features simply return to the free tier, and any custom timers you saved stay runnable. LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), German, French, Simplified Chinese. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18.0 or later. iPhone and iPad. SUPPORT contact@andeanbearstudios.com

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Version 1.6.0 SHARE A RUNNING TIMER Share a timer that is already running as a link, and whoever opens it watches the same countdown tick down in sync in their browser — no app, no account, no sign-up. It works for countdowns, the stopwatch, Pomodoro, and multi-step custom timers. Anything that would put the shared link out of step — pausing, resetting, skipping a phase, switching timers — asks first. BLOCKS FOR CUSTOM TIMERS A custom timer can now hold a Block: a group of phases that repeats for as many rounds as you set, and one Block can sit inside another, two levels deep. A new card-based editor builds them, and while the timer runs the Block you are in and the round it is on appear on the status line, with the Lock Screen Live Activity counting rounds alongside. SEND AND RECEIVE YOUR OWN TIMERS Send a custom timer as a link or as a .rdtimer file, and open one you have been sent from a link, a file, or the clipboard. Before anything is added, a confirmation screen shows what the timer actually contains. A link to a timer you saved opens straight in Retro Dot Timer, ready to import, with a web preview for anyone who does not have the app. Importing and running a shared timer is free; Pro is only needed to create and edit timers. Your library holds up to 50 custom timers. TIMER GALLERY Behind Browse Gallery there are seven ready-made timers, free to import and run: Tabata 20/10, HIIT 40/20, Deep Work 50/10, Study Cycle 25/5, 20-20-20 Eye Rest, 10-Minute Meditation, and French Press. PHASE AND ROUND IN LANDSCAPE Filling the iPhone screen used to hide every hint of which phase of a Pomodoro or custom timer was running. A new Appearance switch, on by default, keeps that line on screen. EMOJI AND A CLEANER INTERFACE Give a custom timer an emoji and it appears on its timer chip. Buttons, labels, pickers, and settings text are now set in the system font, so they read more cleanly and fit better in every language. The timer display itself is unchanged. FIXES • A timer with too many steps to fit in a link now says so up front, instead of building a link that cannot be used • Copy Link and Share on a custom timer are reachable while a timer is running; they used to be switched off with the rest of the timer strip • Skipping a phase during the one-second pause between phases no longer skips two, from the timer, Siri, or the Live Activity • Resetting in that same moment no longer starts the next run already on its second phase

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    Seller
    Andean Bear Studios GmbH
    Size
    7.2 MB
    Category
    Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 4 more
    • English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Andean Bear Studios. All rights reserved.