A presentation timer everyone can see
Open the console on your phone and a display link on a laptop, a monitor, or the back-of-room screen. The presenter gets a clean countdown with warning colors; you get control from anywhere in the room. No install, no hardware, free to start.
Presenting solo
Timing your own talk is the hardest version of the problem. Put the display link on your phone at the podium or in a corner of your second display, sized to a glance. Green through the body, yellow when the close should begin, red at time, and a count-up if you run past it. It is a presenter timer that never needs a confederate in the back row.
- Podium phone, or a corner of your second display
- Green through the body, yellow for the close, red at time
- A count-up past zero if you run long
Pitch nights and demo days
Ten founders, five minutes each, one clock. Build identical segments, turn on auto-advance, and every pitch gets exactly the same treatment. The pitch timer is visible to the presenter and the emcee at once, and a flashed message handles the founder who plans to talk through the red.
- Identical segments, so every founder gets the same clock
- Auto-advance rolls pitch to pitch
- Flash a message when someone talks through the red
Trainings, lectures, and long sessions
Break a half-day session into talk blocks and exercises. The podium timer shows the current block; the wall clock mode covers the breaks. When the morning runs long, one edit pulls the afternoon back into shape.
- Talk blocks and exercises, each a timed segment
- Time-of-day mode covers the breaks
- One edit re-times the whole afternoon
Works beside your slides
NextTime does not plug into your slide software, and it does not need to. Your PowerPoint presentation runs on the presentation machine; the timer for your PowerPoint presentation runs on any other screen in a browser. Nothing installed on the machine driving the projector, nothing to break five minutes before you speak. If you also want your notes and next slide on a second screen, that is what our sister app NextSlide does.
- No plugin for PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides
- The timer runs in a browser on any other screen
- Free to start, any browser, any screen
Stop guessing how long you have left
Free to start, nothing to install. Put a countdown on the podium before your next talk.
Presentation timer questions
Can I see the timer while presenting?
Yes. Put a display link on your phone, a second display, or a back-of-room screen. Wherever you can glance, the countdown can be.
Does the audience see the timer?
Only if you put it on a screen they can see. The timer appears only where you open a display link.
Is there a free presentation timer here?
Yes. Unlimited screens and the full console are free; segments cap at 10 minutes each, and a $15 Event Pass removes the cap for an event.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?
Yes. Console and display are web pages, so any phone with a browser works as either.
Does it integrate with PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides?
No integration, by design. The timer runs on a separate screen in a browser, so your presentation software and machine stay untouched.
Can it count up instead of down?
Yes. Any screen can run count-up mode, and overtime past zero is always visible.
What is the best timer for a conference presentation?
One the presenter can actually see and the operator can actually control. For full speaker lineups, see the conference timer page; for a single talk, the setup above takes two minutes.