About Five Minute Timer
fiveminutetimer.com is a single-purpose tool: an online countdown that is fast to open, accurate, and loud enough to hear from the next room. It started as a five-minute timer and grew a handful of other common lengths, a Pomodoro cycle, a custom page, and a few single-purpose tools: a stopwatch, an interval timer, and egg, tea and meditation timers.
The site is written and edited by the fiveminutetimer.com team.
How it works
The timer calculates remaining time from your device’s clock on every frame rather than counting ticks, so it stays accurate even when the browser slows background tabs. The alarm is generated in the browser with the Web Audio API; there are no audio files to download. The progress ring is an SVG whose stroke is shortened as time passes.
Privacy in brief
- No accounts, no sign-up, no advertising.
- No third-party fonts or libraries. Every page is a few kilobytes of HTML, one stylesheet, and one script, plus Google Tag Manager.
- Visitor statistics come from Google Analytics; the privacy policy explains what it collects. The only value the timers themselves store is your sound on/off preference.
Accuracy and limitations
A browser can only run while it is open. If your computer sleeps or a phone suspends the browser, the alarm cannot play at that moment; the display will catch up as soon as the page is active again. For anything safety-critical, use a dedicated hardware timer.
Contact
Found a bug or have a request for another timer? Email the team at [email protected].