Tempo: Visual Countdown Timer
ADHD Focus & Time Blindness
Free · In-App Purchases
See time instead of counting it. Watch a minute, a day, or a whole year drain away — built for brains that do not track time on their own.
If you have ever looked up and lost an hour, you do not need another number counting down. You need to see time move.
Tempo turns time into something you can watch. A dandelion loses its seeds. An eclipse closes over. A snowman gives in to the sun. Glance at your phone from across the room and you know how much is left — no reading, no math.
BUILT FOR TIME BLINDNESS
Numbers are abstract. If your brain does not track elapsed time on its own, "20 minutes" means nothing until it is already gone. Tempo makes time spatial instead, so you feel it draining rather than having to calculate it.
FROM ONE MINUTE TO ONE YEAR
Most timers stop at an hour. Tempo has six scales:
• MINUTE — a focus sprint or a short break
• HOUR — the meeting, the work block
• DAY — how much of today is actually left
• MONTH — the deadline that still feels far away
• SEASON (Pro) — the three months you keep meaning to use
• YEAR — the one nobody shows you
The longer scales run live against the real calendar. Open Tempo in October and the year is already most of the way gone. That is not a gimmick — for anyone who loses whole weeks, seeing it is the point.
SEVEN VISUALIZATIONS
Dandelion, Dots, Eclipse, Ember, Sand, Snowman, and Thunderstorm. Pick the one your brain actually reads, and set it as your default.
ON YOUR WRIST AND LOCK SCREEN
An Apple Watch app and Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets keep your current scale in view without opening anything — so checking the time stops being the distraction.
BUILT TO STAY QUIET
• No account, no sign-up, no email
• Works entirely offline
• No streaks, no badges, no guilt mechanics
• No ads, ever
Tempo will not fix your relationship with time. It just makes time visible, so the hours stop disappearing without warning.
Free: the Dandelion and Dots visualizations and five of the six scales — MINUTE, HOUR, DAY, MONTH, and YEAR. A one-time Pro purchase adds Eclipse, Ember, Sand, Snowman, Thunderstorm, and the SEASON scale. No subscription.
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This update started with a message from one of you, who wanted to use Tempo mostly from the wrist and asked whether the other visualizations, Dots especially, could come to the watch. They could. Thank you for asking.
The Apple Watch app grows from one visualization to four — Dandelion, Dots, Eclipse, and Ember — and you swipe between them right on the watch. Dandelion and Dots are free for everyone; Eclipse and Ember come with Pro, so the watch is no longer Pro-only.
The watch also keeps up with your phone now. The scale you are on and your accent color carry across, where before it always showed the DAY scale in teal. And the Pro previews on the phone finally show each visualization in motion rather than frozen at the end.
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Information
- Provider
- Foundry24 LLC
- Size
- 10.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Tempo Pro 59,00 kr
- Copyright
- © Foundry24