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The event countdown timer
built for live shows.

A countdown / count-up timer for conferences and live events — driven from Bitfocus Companion, sent out over NDI, and mirrored to any phone or browser on the network.

Free for everyone · One license activates up to 5 computers · macOS (Apple Silicon) & Windows

Hakol Timer control window
Everything a show operator needs

One timer, every output

Bitfocus Companion control

Drive the whole timer from a Stream Deck. Hakol Timer ships a ready-made Companion module and installs it for you automatically — no config files to copy. You get stock buttons (GO, pause, reset, set-time, and combined time-plus-action buttons), live variables for the time, state and display mode, and button colours that follow the countdown from green to red.

NDI output

Send the timer as a clean video source straight into Resolume Arena, vMix, OBS or any NDI-ready system on the same network — no capture card, no cables. Resolution and frame rate are configurable, and an optional alpha channel lets you key the timer over your own content.

Virtual output window

A dedicated, borderless full-screen timer you can drag onto the stage screen, a projector, or a capture device. It locks to a clean 16:9 and shows exactly what the audience or speaker should see — the countdown and nothing else.

LAN web viewer

Open one web address on any phone, tablet, laptop or smart display on the network and it shows the live timer instantly — no app to install. Perfect for the speaker's confidence monitor, the stage manager or a green room, all updating in real time over the local network.

Five timer styles & colour zones

Choose how the countdown looks: big digits, a progress ring, a bar, dots, or a flip clock. Colour thresholds turn it green, then orange, then red as time runs low, and it keeps counting into overtime in red — so nobody misses an overrun. It also shows the wall-clock time the timer will end at.

Message to stage

Type a note to the presenter — "wrap up", "louder", "go to Q&A" — and it appears on their screen over the timer. Send it steady, or make it flash to grab attention, and clear it again in one tap.

Schedule & run of show

Build your whole show as a list of cues — each with a title and duration — and step through them with next, previous, or GO (load-and-start). Import the run of show from a plain text file or JSON, so a thirty-item conference schedule is ready in seconds.

Instant, precise control

Nine one-tap duration presets, live −1 / −5 and +1 / +5 minute adjust, reset, and a count-up mode. Change a running timer on the fly, or queue the next segment's length without disturbing what's on screen. Everything is also controllable over OSC for deeper show-control setups.

Sound, clock & branding

An end-of-timer sound plays through the audio output you pick, with an optional warning beep before the end. Add your company logo to the display, show a live time-of-day clock, and switch the whole output to black or a test pattern in a click.

Questions

Frequently asked

Hakol Timer is a free stage timer for conference and live-event operators — a modern, cross-platform take on the classic Irisdown Countdown Timer 2.0 workflow, with NDI, OSC and Bitfocus Companion built in rather than bolted on.

Is Hakol Timer really free?

Yes. Hakol Timer is free for everyone, with no trial period, no watermark and no feature paywall. You create a free account and the licence it issues activates the app on up to five computers.

Is there an Irisdown Countdown Timer alternative for Mac?

Hakol Timer is a free alternative to Irisdown Countdown Timer 2.0 that runs natively on macOS as well as Windows. It keeps the workflow show operators know from Irisdown and adds NDI output, OSC control, a LAN web viewer and a Bitfocus Companion module.

Does Hakol Timer work with Bitfocus Companion and a Stream Deck?

Yes. Hakol Timer ships a ready-made Bitfocus Companion module and installs it for you, so there are no config files to copy. You get stock buttons for GO, pause, reset and set-time, live variables for the time and state, and button colours that follow the countdown from green to red.

Can I send the countdown timer over NDI?

Yes. Hakol Timer publishes the timer as an NDI source that Resolume Arena, vMix, OBS and any other NDI-ready system on the network can pick up, with no capture card or cabling. Resolution and frame rate are configurable, and an optional alpha channel lets you key the timer over your own content.

How do I show the timer on a speaker's confidence monitor?

Hakol Timer runs a small web server on your machine. Open its address in a browser on any phone, tablet, laptop or smart display on the same network and the live timer appears instantly, with nothing to install on that device.

Can I control Hakol Timer over OSC?

Yes. Hakol Timer listens for OSC on UDP port 7000 by default and can send state feedback back to your controller, so it drops into QLab, Companion and other show-control systems.

Which operating systems does Hakol Timer support?

macOS 11 or newer on Apple Silicon, and Windows 10 and Windows 11.