Hourglass

Hourglass is a small software application developed specifically for helping you work with a countdown timer in order view how much time you spend on different projects. The program keeps everything simple and clean. You can enter the time in just about any format and start a countdown session on the fly.

Hourglass impresses with an intuitive design where all features are very well-structured. Accessing the utility’s functions can be done by right-clicking on its interface. Although you cannot appeal to a help manual, you can get an idea about the tool works in short amount of time thanks to its straightforward looks.

Hourglass gives you the possibility to open multiple countdown timers at the same time. A new timer can be defined by providing information about the title and stating the time in seconds, minutes, or hours. Plus, you may also type date and time values like August 11 at 8 PM to start a new project.

You are allowed to start, stop, pause, or resume the timer, keep the current timer on top of other windows, enable a full screen display, loop the timer, as well as show a popup message or close the timer when the time is up.

The application also keeps a list with recent input time values so you can easily make use of them, and lets you clear the list with recent inputs and play sound notifications. You may choose between three different versions of the same beeping noise or import your own audio file.

You can tell apart multiple timers by assign a different color to each one, hide your timer in the system tray, and control the utility from the command-line console. Once you start the timer, the graphical user interface is automatically animated with the selected color.

Tests have shown that Hourglass carries out a task very quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not burdened.

All things considered, Hourglass comes packed with smart features for timing your activities, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.