Presentation Clock App Reviews

I am so, so happy to see this app brought up to date. I am a professional speaker and I quite literally never stand up in front of an audience without this app counting down the time in front of me. It's simple, uncluttered, visible from any distance—exactly what I need to stay on time and on track. I haven't found the "count down and then begin counting up" feature on any other app—you often need to know not just that your allotted time is up but how far over you are going. I'm just embarrassed that I paid once for it years ago and haven't paid anything since.

I've used this weekly for years as a pastor, but now looking for a new app. The recent changes have made this unusable. For instance, used to be able to tap anywhere on screen to pause or stop the timer, now you have to tap in a very small area that you have to look away from your audience or notes to locate. No way to change this setting. Not nearly as useful now for speakers.

I can be a long-winded speaker and use this app on my iPhone to keep me on pace while using my iPad to read my scripts from Google Drive. What would be an AMAZING feature is if at the top of the screen, similar to when you're recording audio in the background, is that there could be a bar across the top that shows the countdown clock while in other apps. I'd even pay for this extra feature. Please consider. Would make this a stellar app worthy of 5+ stars.

Have used this app for years. Hands down the best, most thought out app of its kind. The UI update is very welcome and needed. An Apple Watch companion would be nice now.

Worked for a little while and it was fantastic while it did. But now I can't get the display to work at all, and cannot delete the timers I had set. Even deleting the app and reinstalling it didn't help. Too bad. Haven't seen anything quite as simple and on task.

This is a great app both on iPhone and iPad. I use it to time myself and also when I need to time other people to keep a session on schedule.

Very efficient & helpful for keeping time with my clients & for training other coaches

Should have read the reviews. Doesn't work on my mini. Notified developer of issue and he didn't give me the courtesy of a response. Apple - remove him and his apps from your store until he proves his stuff works - or refunds consumers that get tricked

This is perfect for any comedian who needs to manage time on their set.

I've bean using this software for a number of years and loved it. In the past year displaying this software had become too unpredictable so I had to use other software, it never lived up to this. Especially reversing color and counting up so my presenters can see just how far over time they are. I do wish you could still see the time when the timer is paused, and I wish touching anywhere on the screen would start and pause the timer. I also find the + and - time buttons hard to see, the competitor uses a swipe up and down to add and remove time which I really like,

App doesn't even work with iPad. Why Apple allows it in store is beyond imaginable.

Great countdown timer for speaking events. There seems to be a bug with using a secondary display (a monitor on stage or a projector). When the timer starts, the display on the secondary screen is cutoff on the left side. If we unplug the display cable from the iPad and plug it back in it corrects itself. This happens every time we start a new countdown. Very annoying. This is the only app that does this. I encourage the developers to look into this. It only started happening on the newer iPads.

Simple and easy to use. I use it frequently due to public speaking. After the last Apple update, I couldn’t use it. I’m haply that I can now. It’s the best app of its class.

I use this app almost daily, as I give multiple presentations and like to time my work flow. It is clear, easy to read, and easy to program. Highly recommended!

I’ve been using this app on my iPad to time speakers for years now, and not only do the speakers love to know when to wind down their speech but the audience appreciates it as they can see it also.

When I looked for a timer app, I wanted something that was really easy to see and easy to program. I couldn’t have asked for anything better. This app ROCKS! It has saved jobs/events and made me look like an AV god on several occasions. Kudos to the developers.

Bought the app on an iPad and then tried to use it on an iPad mini. The countdown timer display doesn't show on the mini. Went to the developers website to contact him to see if the issue will be fixed and could not leave any comments.

My need for this app isn't frequent, and its simplicity in use and function work well with the fact that I seldom use it. It's clean, has a small memory size footprint, and does the job perfectly. But I'm giving it 4 rather than 5 stars because I did notice some inconsistency with when certain labels such as 'tap to pause' show up, as other reviewers have noted.

I am a professional trainer. I even train other to give presentations. This is a great countdown timer to keep us all on track. It has large fonts on black background when you turn your phone sideways. It counts down so you always no how much time you have! You can set the start time (green) and first warning (yellow) and next warning (red) as it counts down by minutes and seconds (even hours). When the presenter goes over time, the background changes to red, the font to black, and the timer starts counting up! It is perfect for times when we need to watch our time. I suggested my whole team download this to our phones. Cost is negligible.

The update is terrible! Please go back to the previous design!!! The new look is chintzy. The timer continues and uses up battery unless you hit reset. I will not be recommending this app again unless it goes back to what it was!

I am a teacher and I often have my students give presentations in class. This timer is clearly visible from the back of the room and the color changes the closer it gets to zero. My students ask me to use it when I forget because they love it so much. The new version is even better.

It’s back! Thank you, Shawn! This by far the best timer app I’ve ever used. Simple to set up and easy to teach others how to operate. I am one grateful AV geek 🤓

I love this app! It does exactly what it claims to do. I would like it if you guys could add Apple Watch support to this app that would seriously take it to the next level!

No longer works on Ipad2 with IO8

This app was great now it STINKS. The type is so small and light you can't read it. Where you used to be able to tap anywhere to start now its a tiny space that is awkward to get to. HATE IT have to find a new app.

What a shame. PClock was my goto app for conference speaker moderation. No longer works on my iPad2 or iPhone4s with iOS8. No updates since 2012 so I assume it's dead. Too bad, it had a great feature set.

I use this app twice a week for sermons. It's perfect. Thanks for updating it!

I just downloaded this app on my iPad and when I try to use a countdown clock, the words minutes and seconds show up on the back screen, but NO NUMBERS are there so it's essentially a black screen! Why is this happening?!

If you are the kind of person that likes to pull a dollar out of your wallet and throw it out the window as you drive down the road, then this app is for you. It doesn't display the numbers, just a black screen.

Not sure what user elcnu is talking about. The feature he is complaining is removed still exists. The + / - buttons are still at the bottom of the screen when the timer is going

New update makes this easy to use timer work again! Thank you. I've tried dozens of timers, this is the simplest and easiest to read.

This used to be a very simple, very effective timer for my speech classes at a university. Now it's much harder to use, it used to be very easy to pause or reset and now the buttons are inconsistent and hard to make work properly expecially for something like a debate round where switching between timers takes a lot of effort. Pausing is hard to do, resetting is often not working or takes several tries. The concept is good but the UI needs an overhaul to make it easier to switch and reset timers.

Simple, effective, easy to use.

Why on earth did they take away the feature that let me change the time by clicking + or -? The worst thing about this app has always been what a pain it is to set -- would you want to use a timer whose time you could only set by going into edit mode? -- so crippling the quick adjust function makes absolute anti-sense.

Great app for public speaking but PLEASE ADD THE CLOCK BACK TO THE TOP. it helps to have the count down and the real time.

Ok! Now this app rocks! Thank you for the update my phone is back on my lectern and I'm tracking my time brilliantly.

I use this app to keep my sermons to 30 minutes or less. Set it on the pulpit and go. Love it. Hope it gets updated for newer iPhones and iOS someday. I'd pay for an update. But even still, it works great. Thanks!

Could use a refresh, but great. VERY legible. Dunno what the guy complaining about the 7-segment display is smokin'. Get to the eye doc, bro. :) Add ability to name segments and this is about fully baked.

I used to use this app every day, but now it doesn't show correctly on my iPhone or iPad mini (it appears off-center, cut off). Please fix and I will happily update my review to 5 stars!

Does exactly what you need for managing presentation times. A perfect tool, with now useless addons

I speak in public often. This app helps me make sure I am exactly on time. I love the timing features that allow you to know you've reached the 10, 5 and 2 minute marks.

Not too happy with this latest update. Tap to pause is inconsistent in when it disappears and when it doesn't. Other on-screen elements don't consistently fade out while timer is running after touching the screen, perhaps inadvertently. Older version worked perfectly and did exactly what was needed. In the end, I find this update needlessly tedious and less intuitive.

Apparently this app no longer works. I recommend you NOT buy it until it is fixed. I should have sorted the reviews by date before purchasing. The digital display does not show. Apple, please remove this from your store until it is fixed! Refund?

I've loved this app for years! The big numbers are visible across the room, so it works well for sharing time information with a group (or with a speaker who is presenting), the color changes (especially the inversion at zero) and optional alerts help mark the passage of important time points, and it's always been pretty easy to add new custom timers (or to adjust the time on the fly). It would get five stars — my "I can imagine no improvement" rating — except there's three little things that have bugged me in it. The tap targets have recently shrinked, making it harder to pause, reset, close, or add/subtract time. The color scheme is fixed (and hard for me as a person with color vision differences to distinguish between the green and yellow text colors). And when editing my list of timers recently, the items in the list kept jumping around (I'd delete one, and another one would jump to the bottom of the list — or a new one would appear). I finally resolved the timer-list jumping problem by deleting all my timers and recreating them. But this still leaves me with color blindness and hard to tap targets. I hope the developer can add some shine to this otherwise highly functional and in any case essential app, by expanding the tap targets, differentiating the luminance of the different colors, and — well okay, I don't know what to suggest doing about the weirdness of the list jumping around; it might just be a one time result of my having had the app across so many devices and iOS versions.

After I updated my iPad to the a Newest update. This app is not working. I can Not see the numbers AT ALL. SMH. I'm not happy right now.

Doesn't work on the iPad mini 1st gen. Also only works about 50% of the time on an iPhone 5S. App needs to be updated.

Couldn't figure out how to use it. Didn't react to any tapping our pinching. Assuming it's an app that sobering made in their spare time to learn how to code. Not worth your money but mostly your time.

This was my original post above. But now there is less chance of that because the touch area to start and stop has been reduced. Would be nice if that area were made clear or a stylized Button I still think press and hold to stop would rock. Don't understand what folks complaining about with the running on, as a presenter, you stop your timer when done. You forgot to stop it, that'd be on you. If I go over I need to see how much. This is still the best to me. ALSO: Suggestion: Please make it where it will stay open as small video window so i can use my Good Reader and have my time rocking at the same time. That would just rock!