CountDown Timer

CountDown Timer is an open-source software application whose purpose is to help you time your activities with the aid of a countdown timer. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

The program can be stored on USB flash drives and opened directly on the target computer from the storage device. A double-click on the executable file is sufficient for gaining access to its features. It does not populate the Windows registry with extra entries so you can uninstall it using a fast deletion task.

The tool opens up directly with the configuration panel, allowing you to set up the timer in a short amount of time.

There’s no support for a help manual but you can decode the settings on your own because they look highly intuitive. The user interface does not impress much in the visual department. It actually looks plain and outdated.

CountDown Timer offers you the possibility to set the duration of the timer in days, hours, minutes, and seconds. You can make the program automatically change the color of the timer when it gets with the counting to a certain time value.

Other important configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to select the time units that are displayed in the main window, reset the time with a single click, as well as start, pause, or resume the timer.

The numbers are displayed with the aid of big digits so they can be spotted from a long distance. You may also resize the main window and make it really small in order to fit into a desktop corner while giving presentations. If you resize the window, the time digits are automatically scaled according with the new size.

The application does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected. On the downside, it has not been updated for a long time so you may come across bugs, especially on newer operating systems. We have tested the program on Windows 8.1 Pro and noticed that it becomes unresponsive and it crashes while the timer is active.

CountDown Timer can be used as a timer for cooking, debate speeches, speaking events, paper presentations, or other types of events. However, it still needs functionality improvements. The application is designed via C language so developers may extend its features or integrate it within other programs.