Tempo Spoken Timer

Tempo is a stopwatch, a timer and an alarm that tell you the time out loud.

Start something, put the phone down, and a voice tells you how long you have been going — every minute, every five, at the quarter marks, or whenever you decide. No looking at a screen, no working out the arithmetic, no realising an hour later that it was an hour.

It is built for anyone who loses track of time while they are concentrating, and for the days when a silent number on a screen is not enough to break through.

WHAT IT DOES

• Stopwatch — counts up, and says the elapsed time at your interval. • Timer — counts down to a length you set, tells you when you reach it, and keeps going into overrun instead of just stopping. • Alarm — a single spoken callout at a time you choose. • Up to four at once. Name them, and it says the name so you know which one just spoke.

IT KEEPS TALKING

Lock the phone, switch apps, put it in your pocket. Tempo carries on announcing. Music ducks for each announcement and comes straight back rather than stopping.

ON YOUR WRIST

The Apple Watch app runs the same sessions. Start on either device and both stay in step — one speaks, both tap. Drop your wrist and the haptics keep coming.

ON THE HOME SCREEN

A widget shows what is running and counts on its own. Start, pause and stop from it without opening the app, and when nothing is running it offers your recent sessions as one-tap starts. Live Activities put the same thing on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

THE WORDING

Discovery signals