25 Minute Timer
Press Start to count down 25 minutes.
What a 25 minute timer is good for
Twenty-five minutes is the original Pomodoro. In the late 1980s Francesco Cirillo, then a university student, timed his study with a tomato-shaped kitchen timer: twenty-five minutes of work, then a five minute break. The method is now one of the most widely used focus techniques in the world.
One Pomodoro
Choose a single task, start the timer and work without checking messages until the disc is empty. Then take a five minute break.
Four rounds, then a long break
After four Pomodoros, take a longer break of fifteen to thirty minutes.
Exam sections
Many practice papers have sections that should take about twenty-five minutes. Timing them builds exam pacing.
A focus sprint at work
Book a twenty-five minute sprint in your calendar and use the timer to protect it.
To pace yourself, glance at the disc rather than the numbers. With the 25 minute timer running, half the colour has gone after 12 minutes 30 seconds, and when only a quarter is left you have 6 minutes 15 seconds to wrap up. Open fullscreen if the timer needs to be read across a room, and add a label so everyone knows what the 25 minutes are for.
How to use the 25 minute timer
It is ready
The dial is already set to 25 minutes. To change it, drag the disc, tap a preset or open Custom.
Press Start
Or press the Space bar. The red disc shrinks back towards 12 o’clock as the time runs down.
Watch the disc
Read the time left at a glance, or open fullscreen for a big dial that fills the screen.
Time’s up
Your alarm plays until you press Stop. Press Reset or R to run the same time again.
25 minutes in other units
| Seconds | 1,500 |
|---|---|
| Minutes | 25 |
| Hours | 0.4167 |
| Fraction of a day | 5/288 |
Why use this timer
Why a visual timer helps
A shrinking disc turns time into something you can see. You read how much is left at a glance, without doing sums on a clock, and an invisible deadline feels less stressful when you can watch it approach. That is why visual timers are a staple in classrooms and are widely used by people with ADHD and autistic children and adults. Read our guide to using a visual timer, how it helps with ADHD time blindness, classroom transitions and autism.
Why this timer is accurate
The countdown is anchored to your device clock rather than counted in animation frames. It does not drift if you switch tabs or your screen sleeps: it keeps running in the background and still sounds the alarm on time. When you come back, the disc jumps straight to the correct position.