Silent Touch Timer 4+

This app has been a silent game changer add more than one deadline in a crowded social environment for which in audible alarm or earphones would have been be totally inappropriate! I also use it from time to time on my own just to keep on track. One especially valuable design choice by the app maker is that the timer keeps counting after the designated countdown period has expired but it displays in red and counts "up" in the negative direction (e.g. minus 30 second, minus 31 seconds, etc). This is A great feature because sometimes if I am writing or doing other creative type work it can be very important to allow the task to complete on its own time scale but also very important to maintain and a proportional sense of the overall envelope of time available for the working session and overall project. You can be all too easy to get caught up in a small but interesting aspect of the project only to find two little time remains to complete the overall project at the same high level of quality and detail… But not when you can glance up and see exactly how much extra time has elapsed since the designated original direction you yourself allotted for whatever task or activity you set the timer for in the first place. The Silent Timer app might be the single most useful time reference in my professional life at the moment.

When the timer is up it changes color to red which is very helpful to time physical activities. I also like the finger swipe thing that depending on the number of fingers you use, changes the seconds, minutes, or hours. Well done app.

I'm a fan of the Pomodoro technique and working in quiet libraries, and this app allows me to do both! The start/stop/reset controls aren't the smoothest, but this app does everything it says it does, and does it reliably! Highly recommend this actually (i.e. not telling you it's silent and then screwing you over with a vibration) timer.