On Google Play, and free

Where did the day go? Now you'll know.

Sandglass Tap a task, and it keeps the time.

Work, study, exercise, telly: one clean record of your day. Set your hours and it'll tell you when you're done.

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A sandglass you can try

23:00 A whole day, poured

Work 7h 30m
Study 1h 30m
Exercise 45m
TV 1h 30m
Not logged 4h 45m

Tap a task and its colour pours through the neck. A day from seven till eleven, in about a minute and a half, drawn by your browser. The app keeps the real one, by the minute.

08:30At a glance

Clock on. See it. Fill in the gaps.

Three things Sandglass does for you, every day.

Clock on, clock off. Start a task and the time is kept.

See how long you really work. Your average workday, after breaks.

Forgot to log it? Add it later. Pick the day and fill in the time.

Backgrounds are illustrations; the phone screens are the real app.

09:00How it works

Tap. Keep. Look back.

Tap a task
Hold a tile and it starts straight away. Tap it and Sandglass asks what you meant: start now, start from a time you pick, or add a block that has already finished.
Stop when you stop
One thing runs at a time, and the lit card is it. Stop it now, stop it at an earlier time, or move when it started. Tap another task and it hands over.
Look back, and fix it later
Every day is a card, entry by entry, by the minute. Forgot to log it? Pick the day on the calendar and fill in the time. The record is yours to correct.

Work · running

2:10:06

since 12:55

Knock off at 17:16

This week · average workday

6h 53m

Unpaid break30m

Tap a task, Stop, or a break. A sketch of Sandglass's Today screen that your browser draws, in the app's own colours.

12:30Hours, if you have set hours

Can I knock off yet?

If your week has a number on it, switch on Hours: tell Sandglass your usual days and it tells you when you can knock off today, as a time. It also keeps a running balance of time in credit or time owed (flex, TOIL, whatever your workplace calls it), so that number stops being a guess.

Average workday

7h 34m

Across 20 recorded workdays

151h 35mNet work

10h 00mBreaks deducted

Work tasks only, after unpaid breaks. Blank days are left out.

Your working rhythm

Each bar is a recorded workday, and the dashed line is your average.

Today

Knock off at 17:16

Worked out from your hours, what you've done and your break. It moves as the day does, and the widget shows it too.

A time, not a nag. Nothing rings when you get there.

Balance

+2h 15m in credit

Carried from day to day and never reset. Public holidays, leave and days in lieu are painted onto a calendar, so a day off stops owing anything, and a day you didn't record isn't counted against you.

Unpaid breaks

+15 · +30

A longer lunch is a tap, today or on any past day. The break comes off the day once, and never takes it below zero.

The figures here are an illustration. Yours will be yours.

Leave Hours off and Sandglass is simply the timer. There is no target, no knock-off time and no balance, just the record of the day.

17:16Looking back

Where did the time go?

History, your way: this week, last week, this month, the last three months, all time, or any dates you pick. Every range has its total and the share each task took, and a calendar shows which task led each day.

This month

245h 15m

All tasks, before breaks

Work161h 35m

TV35h 45m

Exercise18h 25m

Study17h 45m

Side project11h 45m

September 2026One dot a day

The dot is the task with the most time that day. Tap a day in the app to see it, or to add time you forgot.

Made-up days, drawn the way the app draws them.

19:00Make it yours

Your colours. Try them on this page.

Sandglass comes in three accents and two grounds, and the running time can tick with seconds or sit still to the minute. Pick below and this whole page follows, the sandglass at the top included. Your week can start on a Monday or a Sunday, and your day can roll over at an hour you choose, for the night owls.

Accent

Sand Clay Tide

Work wears the accent, so your Work time follows it too.

Background

Dusk Midnight

Midnight is true black, kind to OLED screens.

Running time

With seconds To the minute

Watch the Today sketch above. No red, in any of them.

20:00A glance, not a visit

A home-screen widget, on Android and iPhone, shows what is running and how long it has run, so you don't have to open the app to know.

With Hours on it carries your knock-off time, and when you get there it quietly changes to say you've done your hours. On Android, its Start and Stop pill works without opening the app.

20:30The real app

Five screens from Sandglass

Captured from the app on an Android phone.

Today: Work running at 2:10:09 since 12:55 with a knock-off time of 17:16, a Stop button, this week's average workday of 6h 53m, unpaid break buttons and the task tiles — Today, with Hours on

History: an average workday of 7h 34m across 20 recorded workdays, and a bar chart of the working rhythm with a dashed average line — Your working rhythm

Where your time went: Work, TV, Exercise, Study and Side project as bars with their totals, then a day-by-day list — Where your time went

Tuesday 29 September: 10h 30m, the unpaid break, and each entry with its start, end, task and length — One day, entry by entry

Settings, Look: the Sand, Clay and Tide accents, Dusk and Midnight backgrounds, running time with seconds or to the minute, and the week start — Sand, Clay or Tide

21:00Thirty seconds

Sandglass in half a minute

22:00Quiet, on purpose

What Sandglass will never do

Not settings you have to find and switch off. Not in the app at all.

Send you a notification
Ring, buzz or wake your phone
Colour a long day red
Keep a score, a run of days or a percentage
Ask for an account or a sign-in
Carry an ad
Charge you anything
Upload your record anywhere
Beg you for a rating
Interrupt you with an upsell

Sandglass never rings and never notifies. When you reach your hours it repaints its own widget, which can happen a few minutes later. It makes no sound and there is nothing to dismiss.

Free, all of it

Sandglass is free and there is no paid tier: every task, every chart, the whole of your history and the widget, for everyone. Nothing is held back and nothing is counted against a limit.

A long day is a fact, not a fault, and nothing on the screen is there to make you feel judged.

Get Sandglass

Sandglass is on Google Play. No invites, no waiting list: tap the badge to install, and every new build reaches you automatically. Sandglass is free. The iPhone build comes later, and it has no date.

Sandglass keeps your record on your device, with no account and nothing to sign in to. We receive anonymous usage stats. Read the privacy page

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