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Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction re

Anyone know a good timer where I, for example, set it for 1 minute and start it and then every 1 minute it plays a short sound. And that's it. No interaction required with the phone until I want the timer to stop. This is for rotating through a bunch of different stretches/exercises routine 1 minute per stretch Every app I've tried is too complicated.

semiquaver 3mo ago
It would take about 2 minutes to code that up with an LLM, and not much longer to code it by hand. Building apps to scratch personal itches that would otherwise be infeasible is one of the best new capabilities that nearly everyone in the world has been recently granted.
- samsin 3mo ago
  Just 2 minutes and a $99USD/year Apple Developer account.
  - Schiendelman 3mo ago
    You don't need a paid account to sideload to your own device.
toxik 3mo ago
Search for boxing timer.
burkaman 3mo ago
This is kind of dumb but for any common interval length there is probably a YouTube video that's long enough for your workout. For example, 30 seconds and 1 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Bb4PfLvJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Bb4PfLvJE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AYC3_DbpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AYC3_DbpY. Save the ones you need to a playlist and they should be pretty quick to access.
_mikz 3mo ago
Intervals Pro
zimpenfish 3mo ago
I've used Seconds Pro[0] for this before - comes with a bunch of presets which were handy at the time but also has wide flexibility to create your own (a continuous 1 minute repeat with beep is easy.) [0] https://www.intervaltimer.com/app https://www.intervaltimer.com/app
mikestew 3mo ago
I created an Apple shortcut based on what I found here: https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-interval-timer-using-apple-shortcuts https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-inte... It does “x minutes with y seconds recovery”, and for your use case you can set y=0.
- malshe 3mo ago
  Thanks!
hjadal 3mo ago
I like this one: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/fortime-workout-wod-timer/id6670213305 https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/fortime-workout-wod-timer/id66... Really simple and no ads
al_borland 3mo ago
What you want to search for is “interval timer”. I’ve used this one in the past, but there are a lot out there. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer/id1327053127 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer/id1327053127
mgz 3mo ago
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semiquaver 3mo ago

It would take about 2 minutes to code that up with an LLM, and not much longer to code it by hand. Building apps to scratch personal itches that would otherwise be infeasible is one of the best new capabilities that nearly everyone in the world has been recently granted.

samsin 3mo ago
Just 2 minutes and a $99USD/year Apple Developer account.
- Schiendelman 3mo ago
  You don't need a paid account to sideload to your own device.

toxik 3mo ago

Search for boxing timer.

burkaman 3mo ago

This is kind of dumb but for any common interval length there is probably a YouTube video that's long enough for your workout. For example, 30 seconds and 1 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Bb4PfLvJE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Bb4PfLvJE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AYC3_DbpY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AYC3_DbpY. Save the ones you need to a playlist and they should be pretty quick to access.

_mikz 3mo ago

Intervals Pro

zimpenfish 3mo ago

I've used Seconds Pro[0] for this before - comes with a bunch of presets which were handy at the time but also has wide flexibility to create your own (a continuous 1 minute repeat with beep is easy.) [0] https://www.intervaltimer.com/app https://www.intervaltimer.com/app

mikestew 3mo ago

I created an Apple shortcut based on what I found here: https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-interval-timer-using-apple-shortcuts https://www.lifdb.com/posts/2024/12/17/how-to-create-an-inte... It does “x minutes with y seconds recovery”, and for your use case you can set y=0.

malshe 3mo ago
Thanks!

hjadal 3mo ago

I like this one: https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/fortime-workout-wod-timer/id6670213305 https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/fortime-workout-wod-timer/id66... Really simple and no ads

al_borland 3mo ago

What you want to search for is “interval timer”. I’ve used this one in the past, but there are a lot out there. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer/id1327053127 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer/id1327053127

mgz 3mo ago

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