The best timer apps for iPhone

Timy, a good timer (stopwatch) app for iPhone is a flexible and clean timer tool, without a cluttered interface! Because of the gesture driven interface, Timy works great in any situation, even if you are in the middle of something. 

• Free
• Screen doesn't dim
• Big bright readable screen
• Gesture driven interface
• Easily make multiple timers
• No cluttered screen

Digital sand timer app with artistic design. Time flows and does it stylishly. This digitized hourglass can be used to time anything for up to 60 minutes. It's like having a nice-looking visual indicator of how much time is left on your task.

Best Sand Timer app review

• Timer visualizes time to kids and lets them feel the time
• 16 unique alarm sounds, melodies and loops.
• 5 color themes: turquoise, red, green, amber and pink* UNIVERSAL APP
• Timer works both on your iPhone/iPod and iPad, contains HD graphics for retina and iPad displays 

Transform your phone into a multi-functional egg timer with Egg Farmers of Canada’s official app. Easy to use and fully customizable, it’s more than just an egg timer, it’s packed with recipes and useful features as well. Making perfect eggs is easy with the official cooking instructions from Egg Farmers of Canada.

• Choose instructions for either boiled, poached, scrambled or fried eggs
• Customize your cooking time based on egg size and desired hardness
• Explore hundreds of egg recipes from Egg Farmers of Canada
• Discover plenty of handy tips and advice to help you master the art of preparing perfect eggs

Timer+ is a simple timer app that allows you to set multiple timers and stopwatches at once. Time by the second, minute or hour. Runs in the background so you’re free to use other apps. Includes a Today extension and iPad multitasking support. Downloaded over 7 million times. Get the humble little app that’s repeatedly rated 5-stars by users.

Timer+ for iPad app review

• Run multiple timers and stopwatches simultaneously
• Easily add time to a running timer
• Repeat timers up to 64 times
• Check running timers in Timer+'s Today widget

Tabata Stopwatch Pro is the ultimate Tabata Interval Timer that works for 'all' your interval training needs. You can use this stopwatch app with Tabata, HIIT, kettlebells, bodyweight exercises, interval running, sprints, etc. The main thing the Tabata app will aid you with is automating your exercise, rest, cooldown and other intervals.

• Color coded display visible from afar. Colors represent the amount of energy you are using in an interval
• Customize exercise, rest, recovery and cooldown intervals
• Adjust the number of sets and cycles to match your pace
• Interval beeps for each individual interval if you need a separate beep to mark when it's time to rest

Boxing iTimer Lite is the fully functional boxing round timer app that is very popular on the AppStore. Use it for boxing training, MMA, HIIT, Tabata, Yoga, Sparring or any other sport requiring rounds or intervals. Main features: simplicity, just enough configurations, works from background and with locked phone, can listen to iPod music at the same time.

• Support for saved presets
• Customizable round ending notice
• Session Progress Chart shows the number of rounds, current and remaining time
• Red color for breaks, Green color for Rounds, Orange color for Round Endings

Focus Keeper is a management timer app that helps you keep your productivity high avoiding burnout using the timer. Work with time. Not against it. Customize focus sessions, goals, colors and sounds. Track your productivity with insightful charts with universal(iPhone/iPad) app with iCloud support and simple, beautiful and intuitive interface.

• Adjust the timer with your fingers just like you do with real egg-timer
• Next session starts automatically when the current session ends
• Track your progress with two different charts (14 days and 30 days)
• Customize the length of Focus Session, short break, and long break

Count down to your next with this event countdown timer app - your next vacation, your favorite band’s concert, the next movie premiere, your child's graduation, your anniversary, and more - in style. Just tap “Edit” in the Notification Center and add Countdown. Years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and even heartbeats.

Countdown app review

• 5 free filters for background photos
• Set your own music for each Countdown
• Customizable fonts, font colors and background colors for the Countdown display
• Countdown to anniversaries that repeat every year