Soapbox: Speaker Timer

Soapbox keeps talks on time without the drama.

Put a big countdown in front of your speaker with Soapbox for iPad, or in a web browser on a laptop or a projector screen, and run the clock from the back of the room with Soapbox for iPhone. When it's time to finish, send “Wrap up” and it fills their screen. With Soapbox for Apple Watch, a tap on the wrist says the time is running out.

RUN THE CLOCK
• Start, pause and reset, add or remove time with a tap, and set the length of each talk
• The screen changes colour as time runs low and blinks gently when the talk runs over
• Add a title and notes the speaker can read, such as “Thank Maria in the front row”

RUN OF SHOW
• Plan a whole session as a list of timed segments, or paste a schedule from an email or a document
• Run it with Next and Back; the speaker's screen shows what's on, what's up next and whether you're behind

CUES THEY CAN'T MISS
• Send a cue: tap a quick message like Wrap up or Speed up, or type your own. It takes over the screen, then the clock comes back
• Edit the quick messages for each profile, or flash the screen without any text

ON YOUR WRIST
• Soapbox for Apple Watch follows the timer your phone has joined and shows the live clock in the profile's colours
• The phone paired with the watch sets a tap on the wrist at the warning, danger and zero times, so a speaker wearing it can feel the time without looking at a screen
• Try it before the talk with the Practice run: three taps in one minute. Stop wrist alerts or Follow again during a session, from the phone or the watch
• During a show the watch also shows the speaker, the segment, what's up next and whether you're behind
• A cue you send also shows on a speaker's watch while Soapbox is open on it
• Wrist alerts arrive a few seconds after the moment, and only while the phone is switched on, locked and within reach and the watch is worn and unlocked. The clock must have started before the phone was locked, or look at the watch once after it starts

NOTHING TO SIGN UP FOR
• Pair with a QR code or an 8-digit code. No accounts, no ads, no tracking
• Several people can run the same clock

THE SPEAKER'S SCREEN
• Use Soapbox for iPad as the display, or open soapboxtimer.app/display in a web browser on a computer
• If the internet drops mid-event, Soapbox for iPad can switch to local mode and keep the clock running on its own, and Soapbox for iPhone connects to it over the same Wi-Fi network (not a guest network that keeps devices apart)

MORE THAN ONE SCREEN
• With Soapbox for iPad as the main display, add up to eight more displays running Soapbox, for example a screen on each side of the stage
• A technical director can use Soapbox for iPad or iPhone as an extra display they carry around, and slide in the controls when needed

MAKE IT YOURS
• Sixteen built-in themes, with a picture of each profile and a preview of every phase
• Four clock faces (classic, black and white, subtle, and a progress ring) with a choice of fonts, weights and digit colours
• Save your own profiles with custom colours, timings, alerts and quick messages

The Soapbox apps have no accounts, no ads and no analytics. Read how Soapbox handles your data at soapboxtimer.app/privacy.