Candle Timer

A quiet timer for focused study, deep work and daily habits.

A candle burns and slowly gets shorter. No countdown, no pep talks, no nagging. No games, and no penalty if you stop early. When it burns out, the time you burned and the day you lit it are saved.

Play rain or waves in a moving scene, like a rainy window or a night shore. It works for meditation, yoga and winding down before bed, too.

■ What you can do

1. Turn the dial to set the time, then light the candle

2. When it burns out, the time and the day are saved to your history and habit grid

3. Look back with widgets and charts

■ Your days build up on a habit grid

Each day you light a candle is marked on its own grid.

· Set weekly or monthly goals and follow your streak

· Hide the streak for any candle

· Set a reminder for each candle, at the times and days you choose

Habit features (subscription or one-time purchase) add:

· Home screen widgets (a grid and a compact streak view)

· A month calendar and daily notes

· Fixing forgotten days, and rest days

· Weekday goals, like Mon, Wed and Fri

· Tags, like "Study," to view candles together

· Unlimited candles and reminders

■ Track study and work time by subject

Make a candle for each subject, like "English" or "Math."

· See totals and time by subject, by day, week, month and year

· With Habit features, also see all-time totals, the times of day you focus best, and trends by candle

· The free version limits how many candles you can make

■ Repeat: Pomodoro-style cycles

Check "Repeat" to burn, take a break and burn again. After each break, a new candle is lit. Choose the break length and the number of rounds, or keep going until you stop. Free for everyone.

■ A candle instead of a countdown

· The candle's length shows how much time has passed

· The timer keeps running when you leave the app, and a chime, vibration and notification tell you when it's done (notifications need permission)

· Your session is still saved if you open other apps

· Tap the screen to see the time left, or to put the candle out early

· Prefer to see the time? Turn on the time display for a candle (off by default)

· Drift mode: like a real candle, it burns out a little before or after the time you set

■ No pep talks, no pressure

Nothing is said on screen while it burns, and it won't say "Well done" when it's out. It just tells you how long it burned. Notifications never mention your streak.

■ Ambient sounds and moving backgrounds

Rain, waves, a stream, wind, plus white, pink and brown noise. The sound starts and fades with the candle, and won't stop music in other apps.

A rainy window, a snowy night, the northern lights, a night sea, a study and more, plus daytime scenes. Each candle saves its own color, holder, background and sound, so picking "Study" or "Yoga" switches the whole mood.

■ Sleep mode: nothing to wake you

Check "Sleep mode," and the candle burns out with no chime or vibration. The screen slowly dims, then goes dark. Free for everyone.

■ Made for

· Students studying for tests, exams and certifications

· Remote workers who want to focus quietly

· Anyone building a small daily habit, like reading

· People who find cheering or game-like apps tiring

· Meditation, candle gazing (trataka), yoga and bedtime

■ Plans

The free version includes the full timer, Repeat, Sleep mode, the habit grid, streaks, weekly and monthly goals, basic history, and backup export (JSON / CSV).

· Habit features (subscription or one-time purchase)

Everything above under Habit features, plus detailed history, backup restore and all of Appearance. The subscription has a free trial and renews automatically; cancel any time in Google Play.

· Appearance (one-time purchase)

Every background, holder and sound, custom colors, longer timers and no ads. Pay once.

■ Privacy

Your sessions, habits and notes stay on your device and are never sent to any cloud service. No account required.