The original inspiration to scilla.timer comes from the product ”Timestock”, Sweden’s most used time management tool. It’s available in App Store and it ranks among the top downloaded apps in the education category. However, the app has room for improvement. For instance, it lacks visual appeal and hasn’t been updated for 4 years.

Inspiration

scilla.timer MVP

We wanted to work quickly, test our idea, and launch an MVP, which we would then analyze and iterate based on the insights we would gain from user data once the app was completed.

The result was scilla.timer – a visual timer for both kids and adults. For people dealing with autism, ADHD, or other cognitive conditions, we wanted this timer to bring more independence and help create a smoother daily routine. The timer could also be used for work outs, pomodoro, focus time, productivity and what else you need a count down for.

Visualize time

The time is visualized within your app, making it easy to see how much time is left. Choose between 5, 10, 15, or 25 minutes. When the time is up, a sound is played.

My role was to design and develop a prototype, while my brilliant colleague Martin at scilla.studio built the app in ClojureScript.

App Store Optimization

There are ALOT of time management apps out there. We noticed that other time management tools didn’t focus much on the visual content in the App Store. With visual content such as a preview video, images, and bright colors, we wanted our timer to look appealing.

We used tools to identify the most important keywords related to timers that people searched for the most, and based our App Store content on these findings. We also created a website (countonme.app), which was optimized for SEO with relevant keywords to give us a boost.

We also enabled users to test the app for free on the website in their browser, as we noticed there were many searches for ”online timer.”

Wanna read more? Check out the webpage here!