Meeting timer
Create a host-controlled meeting timer with a shared display, agenda timers, warning colors, and overtime tracking for standups, Zoom calls, Microsoft Teams sessions, and weekly team meetings.
Real meeting situations
In a real meeting, the timer is not just for the facilitator. It helps the whole room notice pacing, understand what segment is active, and recover when updates run long.
A private laptop timer can be missed, and a notes document can plan the agenda without keeping the room synchronized once the discussion starts.
A shared meeting countdown gives the room one visible source of time instead of one hidden device.
A practical meeting flow
In many meetings, the timing problem starts before the first topic ends. The host has an agenda, the team has discussion points, and nobody wants to interrupt every update just to say the remaining time out loud.
PresentationTimer keeps those roles clear. The facilitator opens the host view. The conference room screen, second display, or online meeting share opens a clean read-only countdown.
That display can live in Zoom, Teams, Webex, a browser window on a shared monitor, or a laptop on the meeting table.
The host can adjust the timing live without exposing controls, settings, or editing UI to the rest of the room.
When the meeting has more than one segment, the room can hold a small agenda for introductions, updates, blockers, decisions, and wrap-up.
The result is a calmer session: everyone sees the same clock, the host keeps control, and overtime remains visible when the agenda starts slipping.
Why PresentationTimer
The facilitator should not have to choose between guiding the discussion and manually narrating the clock.
The team should not need to guess whether the current update has two minutes left or has already gone over time.
PresentationTimer separates the host controls from the public display so meeting pacing stays visible without turning the room into a settings panel.
A timer on one laptop helps only the person sitting near it. A shared meeting timer can stay visible on a second screen, conference room display, Zoom share, Teams window, or remote producer machine so the whole room follows the same countdown.
The facilitator can start, pause, reset, rename, reorder, and switch agenda timers from the host view while attendees see only the clean shared display. The meeting clock stays visible without exposing the editing controls.
Green, yellow, red, and overtime states help the room notice when updates are running long. The host does not need to keep interrupting the meeting just to say how much time is left.
How it works
The flow follows the way meetings actually run: create the room, prepare the agenda, show the shared display, and adjust live when the conversation needs more or less time.
You can use one countdown for a short sync or build a small agenda for introductions, updates, decisions, and next steps.
Open PresentationTimer and create a free room. The meeting host gets the control page, and the shared display link is ready for a second screen, meeting room display, or online meeting window.
Add timers for intro, updates, blockers, discussion, decisions, and wrap-up. One room can hold the whole meeting agenda instead of forcing you to restart a single timer again and again.
Open the display link on the conference room screen, a shared browser window, Zoom, Teams, Webex, or a facilitator laptop. The display follows the active timer and stays read-only.
Start, pause, reset, switch agenda timers, or use Linked Start when one meeting segment should flow into the next automatically. The host can still override the flow manually when the conversation changes.
Agenda and Linked Start
A meeting is rarely one countdown. A facilitator may need an intro timer, an updates timer, a blockers timer, a decision timer, and a short wrap-up before the call ends.
Instead of resetting one generic timer over and over, PresentationTimer keeps those segments inside one agenda room.
Linked Start helps when the flow is predictable. The next timer can be selected after the previous one ends, or it can start automatically.
If the meeting changes direction, the host can still switch segments manually without confusing the shared display.
Comparison
Phone timer
Fast to open, but hard for the rest of the meeting to see and too isolated for shared pacing.
Notes agenda
Useful for planning, but it does not give the room a live shared countdown.
Generic online timer
Useful for one countdown, but usually lacks host/display separation and multi-step meeting agenda flow.
PresentationTimer
Host-controlled meeting timing with a shared display, warning colors, overtime tracking, and simple agenda timers in one room.
Ready to time a meeting?
Use PresentationTimer for a short standup or a simple multi-segment meeting agenda.
The host controls timing, the shared display stays readable, and overtime remains visible when the discussion runs long.
FAQ
A meeting timer is a visible timer used to keep a team meeting, standup, remote sync, workshop, or agenda-based discussion on schedule. PresentationTimer adds host controls, a shared display, warning colors, overtime tracking, and simple agenda timing.
Create a PresentationTimer room, add the meeting segments you want to time, and open the shared display where the room can see it. The host keeps the control page private while the meeting follows one visible countdown.
Yes. Open the display link in a browser window and share it in Zoom, or keep it on a second screen while the facilitator controls the timer from the host view. This works well for remote team meetings, demos, and recurring syncs.
Yes. The shared display can stay visible in a Teams meeting while the host keeps the timer controls private. It is useful for standups, project updates, reviews, and decision meetings that need visible pacing.
A meeting agenda timer is a timer setup where each meeting segment has its own time box. Instead of running one countdown for the entire session, you can create separate timers for intro, updates, discussion, decisions, and wrap-up inside one room.
Yes. A meeting timer room can hold a small agenda, so you can run a standup timer first, then move into blockers, discussion, decisions, or next steps without rebuilding the room.
Create a PresentationTimer room, open the display link in a browser window, and share that window in Zoom, Teams, Webex, or another browser-based platform. The host keeps the controls private while attendees see the countdown only.
Yes. The current version lets you create a free timer room in the browser for lightweight meetings, standups, workshops, presentations, webinars, and other live timed sessions.