Time Ruler app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
4672 ratings )
Utilities
Productivity
Developer:
Yanjun Tao
0.99 USD
Current version:
1.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 30 Sep 2011
App size: 8.67 Mb
Time Ruler is a powerful programmable timer tool that allows you to record your own voice as the notification sound.
Features:
- Custom notification sound. You can record a voice as the notification sound.
- Continuous notification sound in background. You can assign the play count of a notification sound.
- Multiple steps of timing and notification: Very suitable for cooking, fitness, and other multi-process timing tasks. Notification sound for each finishing of steps.
- 3 methods to link up steps: You can set the start requirement of each step to define the link up method.
· Immediately: Start timing immediately after previous step finish.
· Manually: Pause timing after previous step finish, waiting for user pressing the continue button before start timing.
· Delay: Delay a specific time after previous step finish, then start timing. A start notification sound can be provided.
- Supporting for multiple tasks running simultaneously.
- Supporting for task pausing.
- Supporting for task repeating.
- Start at a given time.
- Custom notification message: A notification message can be provided for each step, that shown with the notification sound.
- Accurate to second: Timing and delay time can be accurate to second.
- Task title: Title of task can be specified and modified.
- Group management: You can customize groups, and specify each tasks belonging group. Group name can be modified at any time. Tasks within a group can be reordered.
- Dual task filter: To locate a task quickly, you can filter out tasks by their group and running status.
Notes:
- Make sure Time Ruler is available in Notification Center.
- The following features need iOS supporting for multitasking that should be able to run in background:
1. Continuous notification sound in background.
2. Custom notification sound in background.
3. Repeating of timing task.
- Supporting for running in background will shorten battery life, you can choose to turn off this feature.
- A phone call, alarm, or iPod and some other audio apps will invalidate background running, you should launch Time Ruler again to resume it.
Pros and cons of Time Ruler app for iPhone and iPad
Time Ruler app good for
So easy to use and really usefull when you want to make intervals in jogging or anything else :)
Very usefull program for home training. One big bug to be solve: When stopping an active timer soon after starting it, it will keep running in background somehow, and when I start back this timer, further steps complete and make the program crashes. Even after restating the whole thing, the active timer is empty and a timers still running. There should be a clear cache button or something to reset all active timers running in background.
Some bad moments
Works well, but there is no option to recrod a custom end notification as mentioned in the description. This is the whole reason why I purchased the app.
Were potty training our son and its great for making sure he goes every hour without having to constantly reset. Easy, multifunction, great alarm settings.
I like the multilevel timer feature and the ability to loop a timer, but the length of time does not show until you get into the timer and all of the type is very small. There is also no way to designate by icon which timer is which. So you have to look at the small type set to determine which timer is which.
Another interesting feature is that within the steps of a timer you can set a delay before the next timer starts. Cant figure when I would ever use this feature but it is an interesting feature. That means set a timer for a certain number of minutes then it alarms and waits to start the next timer, but there is no signal when the next timer begins. ??? Even so I use it for my Cellercise routine so that I know when the warm up is over then when I am supposed to be cooling down so that I can give it my all in between.
Ive been using the free version of this app. It seemed to work decently but had some limitations that I wanted to get around. For one thing, I wanted to be able to do an entire day without having to have multiple timing sequences. The pay version of this app advertised that it could do this. As it turns out, this version of the app is so flawed that it cant do much of anything. Sometimes it just stops timing without warning. Other times, timing sequences that Ive designed in order to keep me on track during the day of teaching classes just disappear from my saved list of timing sequences. So, Ive stopped using this version and gone back to the free version. While Im now noticing some of the flaws in the pay version also exist in the free version, its more reliable especially if I keep my timing sequence very simple. Basically, I use it to time only one or two classes. And then restart the sequence for the next two classes. Using the timer in this manner helps me very much to keep on track in a school day where our daily class periods are 48-minutes long and dont end on a easily-remembered time ending in a zero or five.
This is a terriffic app but crashes on iOS7. Wish you would update it.....
