Kestrel

A stage timer for speakers.

For iPad, iPhone and Mac · on TestFlight

Kestrel shows you, in large numbers you can read from the lectern, how long is left of the part you’re on. Split a talk into segments, run a whole programme item by item, or set a countdown on the spot. Colour only ever means something: amber to wrap up, red when you’re over, and a word beside it as well.

Three kinds of timer

Segmented. A total time split into segments. Each is either a fixed length or a share of what is left, by a weight you set, and the editor shows the minutes each works out to.
Finish a segment early with Next, and the time saved is spread over the weighted segments still to come, so the talk still ends when planned.
End by a time of day: start late and the weighted segments shrink to fit.
Program. An agenda in sections, run by a chair. Kestrel shows how far ahead or behind you are, the planned and projected finish, and what each item actually took. Pauses, such as a song, move the plan rather than putting you behind.
Quick. A countdown set on the spot, or a stopwatch.

On stage

Countdown, stopwatch or clock, switchable while the timer runs. Over time counts on in red.
On iPad, the timer floats over your notes or slides in picture in picture.
On Mac, an always-on-top floating timer, and keyboard shortcuts for Start, Next and Reset.
On iPhone, a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with Pause and Next.
A tap on iPhone at wrap-up, at each new segment and when time is up, and the screen kept awake while you’re timing.
Your timers, and a run in progress, stay in step across your devices through your own iCloud.
Meeting templates for the Watchtower, CBS, Public Talk and the midweek meeting, if you turn them on.

Kestrel has no accounts, no ads and collects nothing. Questions or ideas: hello@pronghornlabs.net.