THE PROBLEM
A spreadsheet schedule and a volunteer hovering by the stage is not a timing system — and the overruns still have to be tallied by hand once the doors close.
FEATURES
State lives on the server, not on someone's laptop. Start, pause or nudge a session and every connected display updates instantly — projection, confidence monitor, tablet backstage. If a screen drops off Wi-Fi, it catches up the moment it reconnects.
The Viewer is a fullscreen countdown for stage monitors. The Agenda is a read-only board of the whole programme for lobbies and green rooms. The Moderator is a tablet-friendly panel for pushing messages to the speaker — without full controller access.
Every output is a short link with a QR code. The stage manager scans it on the venue TV, the moderator opens it on their own tablet — no account, no install, nothing to configure. Links stay live for the whole event.
Auto-advance rolls to the next session the moment one ends. The controller tracks live drift against your planned schedule and projects the real finish time — so you claw back minutes at the next break instead of discovering them at 5 pm.
HOW IT WORKS
Register free and run your first countdown before the kettle boils.
Sign up with an email — no card. Add sessions with durations and speakers, or import the whole run sheet from CSV.
Each output is a short link with a QR code — stage monitor, moderator tablet, lobby agenda. No accounts for the crew.
Press Start. Pause, nudge ±30s, push messages to the speaker — every screen follows the moment you do.
USE CASES
Five-minute slots back to back leave no slack for one speaker's ten minutes to eat into the next four. A colour change at the two-minute mark does the job a volunteer would otherwise have to do by hovering at the side of the stage.
Judges are scoring the idea, not negotiating whose six minutes quietly became eight. The same countdown runs in front of the panel and the founder pitching, so the cut-off is the software's call, not a volunteer's.
A thesis defence runs on a fixed clock for the presentation and the questions that follow, and it undermines the chair to be the one squinting at a phone to enforce it. Put the countdown where the candidate and the panel both see it, and whoever is running the room only has to press start.
SCREENSHOTS
Controller at the desk, Viewer on stage, Agenda in the lobby.
Can my volunteer AV team actually run this?
Yes — start, pause and “send message” are the only three things anyone needs to learn. If they can run a slideshow, they can run the controller.
How do I warn a speaker they're running over, without walking on stage?
Send a message from the controller — “Two minutes left,” or your own wording — and it appears on their confidence monitor immediately. No hand signals, no walking up.
Is there anything to install?
No. It runs in any modern browser on whatever the venue already has — laptop, tablet or the room's own screen.
Can I import our running order instead of typing 40 speakers in by hand?
Yes — CSV import handles up to 500 rows with column mapping, so a schedule already built in a spreadsheet becomes a rundown in one step.
Is it really free for a multi-track conference?
One room is free forever with unlimited timers and every output screen. Pro adds unlimited concurrent rooms once you're running parallel tracks.
Do the speakers or volunteers running each room need accounts?
No. Only the person on the controller signs in — every confidence monitor and lobby screen is a link with a QR code, nothing to log into.
PRICING
Start free. Upgrade when you need more rooms.
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