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Hourglasses

Watch time flow — hourglass timers, world clock, stopwatch

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Hourglasses is a free, ad-free timer app that replaces boring countdown numbers with an animated hourglass you can actually watch flow. Set preset or custom timers and choose your sand color, check world times for cities across the globe in different clock styles, run a stopwatch with laps, or use the two-player chess clock. Live on iOS and Android from Lanijiro LLC.

PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: focus and countdown timer apps · 195 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Productivity
  • Time Tracking

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Could you build this?

Yes An animated hourglass timer, world clock, and stopwatch are simple front-end features that a solo builder can ship quickly with AI assistance.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 492 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #211 of 493 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Horula · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • eTimer · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Clock · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • FloatTimer+ · ph · 2026-10-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Flowveil · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Timer Clock · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • clooock · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Hourglass — a study space · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50

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