radialtimers.com
This timer draws 6 minutes as 20 concentric rings; one empties every 18 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 jammy soft-boiled egg, a six-minute walk test, or a neck and shoulder stretch routine.
Six minutes is an egg number and a clinical number, and it is a good length for a short routine because it splits three ways evenly. Each ring lasts eighteen seconds; ten rings gone is three minutes, the halfway mark.
Six minutes in boiling water gives a large egg a fully set white and a yolk that is thick, glossy, and still runs when cut: the egg for ramen, for toast soldiers, and for a salad. Lower the egg in from the fridge, start the dial as it goes in, and move it straight to cold water at the chime. A minute more sets the centre; the boiled egg page is set to seven for that, and the 8 minute dial goes fully hard.
The six-minute walk test is a standard clinical measure: walk as far as you comfortably can along a flat corridor in six minutes, and the distance is the result. It is used to track recovery and fitness over time rather than to compete. Doing your own version at home is simple with this dial: a marked stretch of hallway, start at the first ring, count laps until the chime, and write the number down for next month.
A desk stretch routine fits six minutes neatly as six one-minute pieces: chin tucks, ear to shoulder each side, a chest opener with hands clasped behind, shoulder rolls, and a slow head circle each way. Switch at every third or fourth ring. The point is the pace, not the count.
The neighbours are the 5 minute and 7 minute dials. There is a matching six-minute video on the card for the kitchen, where a clip playing on a tablet is sometimes easier to hear. All the lengths are on the timers page.
18 seconds. The dial always has 20 rings, and this timer runs 6 minutes.
Yes. The nearest pages are the 5 minute timer and the 7 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 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.
The timers here are free online countdown timers. Run several at once, take one fullscreen, or pop one out picture-in-picture to float over other apps. Each chimes at zero and keeps counting in a background tab. Any timer exports as a video.
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.