BELL·001
Machined interval clock · boxing / HIIT / Tabata / EMOM
ROUND 04 / 12

Every gym timer is a UI.
This one is an object.

Rolling drums count your round down. A brass bell — a real one, with a hammer on a spring — rings you in and out. Wood clappers call the last ten seconds, the way a boxing gym always has. Nothing fades or toasts. Everything has mass, springs, and sound.

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— The machine
DRUM WINDOWThree ten-face cylinders on real geometry — spring overshoot, carry stagger, slivers of the next digit through the glass. Legible from three metres.
THE BELLHammer cocks back three seconds out, strikes at zero. One ring in, one ring out, three for the final. Hold it to skip a segment; drag the hammer just to hear it.
LIGHT STACKGreen — work. Amber — final ten, with the clappers. Red — rest. Read it mid-combo, no words needed.
HEART GAUGEA pressure-dial needle with lag, overshoot and idle wobble, zones painted to your own HRmax. Fed live by the watch companion. No signal is a stamped tag, never a popup.
BRASS DIALSRounds, work, rest — knurled, ratcheting, one-second steps under 0:30. They sink flush and lock the moment you start.
THE PLUNGEROne press to start. While live it reads PAUSE and takes a deliberate hold — a sweaty palm smack can't stop your round. Ending early is always two motions.
FLIP SIDETurn the machine over for the engineering plate: session log, streak, skins, sound. The front stays pure.
— Doctrine

OBJECT, NOT INTERFACE

One machine, one screen. Errors are jams. Settings are on the back, where a machinist would bolt them.

HAPTIC-FIRST

Every mechanical event has a strike you can feel — phone and wrist. The screen is confirmation, not the message.

GYM-PROOF

Bells cut through your music with the phone locked and in your pocket. Interrupting actions are holds and drags, never taps.

LOCAL-FIRST

No account. No network. Your rounds live on your phone and nowhere else.

— Sound & feel, machined per event
EventSoundFeel
ROUND BELLBrass strike, five-second tail, pitch-shifted so triples never phaseFull strike + 300 ms decay
10 S WARNINGWood clappers ×2 — the authentic boxing callDouble knock
DIAL DETENTRatchet tickSharp transient per step
ROUND PUNCHEDMetal punch through steelHeavy stamp
PAUSEPower-down whir; the lights sag half a stop240 ms fading rumble

Every sample is synthesized in the app from partials and filtered noise — no audio files, no downloads. If the app is killed mid-session, scheduled system alarms carry every remaining bell through Silent and Focus. The clock itself runs on absolute dates: lock it, background it, take a call — it does not drift.

— Own it

THE TIMER

Free forever
Never paywalled
  • All five presets — boxing, HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, custom
  • The bell, the lights, the drums, the clappers
  • Lock-screen wall clock & Dynamic Island
  • Killed-app bell guarantee

BELL PRO

$9.99 lifetime · or $2.99/mo
Buy a tool, keep it
  • Heart gauge — zones, time-in-zone on your fight card
  • Wrist zone coaching with the watch companion
  • Unlimited custom preset tags
  • OLD SCHOOL and every future skin
  • Full session log and streaks