About Timglas
A small, calm, free hourglass timer.
Timglas is a free online timer with an animated hourglass at its centre. The site exists for the small, ordinary moments time gets used for - a five-minute focus block, a three-minute egg, a twenty-minute meditation, a one-minute plank, a Pomodoro cycle in the middle of a workday. Nothing here is locked behind a sign-up, an app store, or a paid tier.
What's here
A few starting points if you're new to the site:
- The standard timer with the animated hourglass front and centre.
- Timer types grouped into four categories - everyday, focus, meditation and training - each with their own landing pages.
- A small library of long-form articles on focus, timing, meditation, cooking and tea.
- A long-form history of timekeeping if you want to know how we got from sundials to atomic clocks - and where the hourglass still wins.
Looking for the history of the hourglass?
If you came looking for the long-form piece on the history of timekeeping - sundials, water clocks, the hourglass at sea, the mechanical clock and the atomic standard - that has moved to its own page.
Read the history of timekeeping →