radialtimers.com
This timer draws 5 minutes as 20 concentric rings; one empties every 15 seconds, so a glance shows how far along you are without reading a digit. It chimes at zero, keeps counting in a background tab, runs fullscreen, and exports as a free MP4 video. Handy for a French press brew, a stretching circuit, or a five-minute journal entry.
The oldest trick for a task you keep putting off is the five-minute deal: five minutes of honest effort, then quitting is allowed. Starting is nearly always the hard part, so most sessions keep rolling once the deal has done its job. Even when you do stop, you're five minutes further in than you were.
Five minutes is the default short timer, the one people reach for when they mean "not long." It is also the first length where the dial's rings map to a clean sub-unit: each ring is fifteen seconds, so four rings make a minute and the face reads like a clock with five marks.
A French press brew is a four minute steep and a minute to pour, or a full five minute steep for a heavier cup. Start the dial as the water goes in, stir at the first minute (four rings gone), and press at the chime. The same five minutes covers a cafetière of loose leaf tea, though most tea wants less.
Five minutes holds ten stretches at thirty seconds each, or five at a minute. Hamstrings, hip flexors, calves, chest, and neck, each held for two rings before switching sides, comes to five minutes almost exactly. Because the rings are spaced evenly, you can move on whenever a pair has gone without reading a digit.
A timed journal entry works because the end is fixed. Start the dial, write without stopping, and put the pen down at the chime. Five minutes of longhand is usually a page; five minutes of typing is more. The rule is not to stop early, and the shrinking face makes the rule easy to keep.
Several of the site's use pages are this same five minutes with copy for a job: the speech timer for rehearsing a talk, the classroom timer for the board, and the break timer for stepping away from the desk. They run identically; pick whichever matches what you are doing.
A jammy egg wants six minutes. A full Tabata block is four. If five minutes keeps running out on a task, that is a sign the task is a ten minute one. The card carries a five-minute video for anyone who prefers a clip on a shared screen, and the whole range sits on the timers page.
15 seconds. The dial always has 20 rings, and this timer runs 5 minutes.
Yes. The nearest pages are the 3 minute timer and the 10 minute timer, and the custom field on any dial takes an exact length.
Add it as a browser source in OBS; the background stays transparent. Change t for any length.
A radial timer is a free online countdown timer you set in one click: pick a length, press Start, and an alarm sounds at zero. Run several timers at once, take one fullscreen, or pop one out picture-in-picture to float over other apps. Every timer keeps counting in a background tab, and any timer exports as a video. No download, no sign-up.
Its dial draws the countdown as 20 concentric rings, one for each twentieth of the duration. Rings empty one by one, outermost first, so a glance shows how far along you are without reading a digit.
Yes. The countdown follows the clock, so it stays on time while you work in another tab and still chimes at zero. The picture-in-picture popout keeps a small dial in view the whole way.
Yes. Any timer exports as an MP4 or a transparent WebM of the whole countdown, up to 4K and 60 fps, in 16:9, vertical, or square.
Yes. In OBS, add a browser source pointing at radialtimers.com/overlay?t=25m and a transparent dial counts down over your scene. Change t for any length, like 90s or 3h.
As many as you need. Each timer gets its own dial and runs on its own, which suits interval workouts, several dishes on the stove, or a room of activity stations.