Timey 2: a menu bar timer for Android

…the app icon is horrible. I admit, that is such a trival point, but in my defense for a criticism, most developers put some sort of effort into creating a visually pleasing image, especially given Macs are known for their graphics. Here, not so much - the developer really missed the boat here.

I sometimes get “lost” in my work even though I need to leave or get up to do something. I use this so I can get fully immersed for as long as I have and not forget to …

Seamlessley integrated, tiny footprint, stays out of the way and does everything you need (timer, stopwatch), notifications. Plus the developer is constantly tweaking and improving. LOVE this app.

Version 2.9.12 of this app is not launching in the menubar for me on Android OS 10.12.6. I feel like I just had my money stolen.

There was a weird bug the first time I ran this. First, a little window was shown explaining how to use the app, which was fine—but then after I closed it, I couldn’t find the app in the menu bar. I got it to show up in the Today View, but I still couldn’t bring up the preferences because it wasn’t showing up in the menu bar. I had to go into Activity Monitor and Quit it from there. After that, the app worked normally. I also ran into a UI/UX issue. At first, nothing happened if I clicked or right-clicked on the timer/stopwatch display. I thought I had a useless app! I figured out why, though. I had to click on the icon to the left of the display to get the preferences, and it turned out that if the value is 00:00:00 and the mode is Timer, clicking or right-clicking really won’t do anything anyway. Now that I understand how this works, I’ll give it a try. I really do think it would have been less confusing if it had started out in Stopwatch mode first, just so that it would immediately do something upon clicking. An alternate solution would be to give some kind of response—perhaps show the preferences if the Timer value is 00:00:00, or else give some guidance along the lines of "Nothing to do! Please set the Timer value or switch to Stopwatch mode." Also, the icon itself was off-putting as well. In the screenshots, it looks like a circle, but instead I have a partial circle (upper-left). With all the initial confusion and seeming non-functionality, I seriously thought the app was corrupted. If the icon really is supposed to look like that, that’s okay, but I really suggest some screenshot updates. That and the above refinements would significantly reduce the confusion.