PIPTIM · ALWAYS ON TOP
The interval most often recommended to people who look at screens all day.
Tap the time to change it
Eye doctors suggest the 20-20-20 rule: every twenty minutes, look at something about six metres away for twenty seconds. Concentrating on a screen reduces how often you blink and keeps the focusing muscles under load, and twenty minutes is the interval offered for breaking that up.
The paradox of the rule is that it asks someone absorbed in a screen to look away from it. When you are absorbed, twenty minutes passes unnoticed, and an alarm behind another window may as well not exist. That is usually why the rule goes unfollowed.
The PiP window sits outside the browser, so it stays above a full-screen video or a code editor. To repeat it through the day, set the focus cycle to twenty minutes and let it loop.
STAY ON TOP OF TIME
PipTim uses your browser's Picture-in-Picture feature to keep a compact timer above other windows. Use it for study, work or exercise with no installation or account.
Use an interactive mini window in Chrome and Edge, or video PiP on supported mobile browsers.
Choose a flexible countdown timer, Focus Cycle sessions and breaks, or a stopwatch for elapsed time.
Your duration and theme stay in this browser. No account or app installation is required.
HOW TO USE
QUICK TIMERS
FAQ
Yes. PipTim's countdown, Focus Cycle and stopwatch are free and require no account.
The standard timer works in modern browsers. Interactive Document Picture-in-Picture is mainly supported by desktop Chrome and Edge, while the PiP method may vary by browser and device.
No. The timer stops when you fully close the browser or PipTim tab. Use another alarm as a backup for important deadlines.
No. Settings such as duration, language and theme are kept only in this browser's local storage.