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Timer / Meeting Timer
Meeting Timer — One Countdown Everyone In The Room Can See
Meetings overrun because time is invisible to everyone except whoever is watching the clock. Set the length here, share the one link, and the countdown is on every attendee's own screen at once, remote and in-room, to the same second, without anyone screen-sharing or installing anything.
Change the countdown
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The board above works for any of these. These pages just start at the right length and answer the questions specific to each:
- Standup timer — the daily one, for keeping it to ten minutes.
- Zoom meeting timer — paste into the call chat; no screen share needed.
- Google Meet timer — same, without an extension.
- Workshop timer — longer sessions and breakout groups that need to finish together.
- Agenda timer — several named segments in order, advancing themselves on every screen.
- Webinar countdown — the wait before it starts, not the meeting itself.
Timeboxing the whole agenda, not just the meeting
A single countdown keeps a meeting inside its slot; it does not stop the first item eating the third item's time. For that, build the agenda as named segments (intro, demo, decision, AOB) and let it advance itself on every screen. There is a longer piece on doing this well in the guide to meetings that end on time.
If the meeting changes shape mid-way
Tick phone control before you start and you get a second link that pauses the countdown, adds or removes a minute, and stops it, live on every screen that has it open, from your phone, without touching the shared screen. And if nobody can copy a link off the room display, read out the join code instead: every running countdown gets a five-character one.
Common questions
Does everyone need an account or an app?
No. It's a web page. Anyone with the link opens it in whatever browser they already have. There's no signup, no extension and no install, for you or for them.
How many people can watch the same meeting timer?
As many as you like. Nothing is held open per viewer, so a two-person one-to-one and a 400-person all-hands cost the same to serve, which is why there's no device cap here and no paid tier to lift one.
Can I use it for a hybrid meeting?
It's built for that. The countdown is a fixed instant rather than a stream from a server, so the room's projector and a remote attendee's laptop are doing the same subtraction and agree to the second, with no screen share and nothing to fall behind.
Can I keep a meeting timer running across several agenda items?
Use the agenda timer for that: give each item a name and a length and it moves through them itself, on every screen at once, rather than needing someone to restart a countdown between items.