The media could not be loaded.  I was looking for a timer that I could implement with my two toddlers when switching from preferred to non-preferred activities (e.g. from outdoor play time to cleaning up), and also wanted both visual and auditory cues. The Time Tracker Mini looked promising, as it has multiple time settings plus the two different cues.Visual cue: the light works well in dim environments, but completely washes out in outdoor lighting. If you are working on outdoor activities, you would not be able to discern the lighting cue in average daylight, and would completely miss the cue. This timer would be better suited for table-time/home work activities in indoor lighting settings.Auditory cue: the alarms are gentle and non-abrasive, but only alert for 2 seconds. An auditory alert that only engages for 2 seconds is ineffective for most children who are participating in average activities, aside from very quiet table actives such as coloring. Many times, my children do not hear it. It doesn't alert a second time, so if you didn't catch that first auditory cue, you will completely miss the warning.Timing increments: this timer does not have an increment smaller than 5 minutes. Anyone with toddlers or children with sensory processing disorders knows that sometimes you need a timer that goes for just 30 seconds or a minute, and this timer's smallest time increment is 5 minutes. In addition, the smallest time increment for a warning alarm is 5 minutes, so anything 5 minutes and under doesn't benefit from a visual or auditory warning cue. Thus, timing increments this large would again be better suited for an older child or adult working on long table-time/home work activities.Long and short, I wouldn't recommend this timer for anyone hoping to work on daily tasks/skills with toddlers and/or children with sensory processing disorders. The cues are too easily missed depending on the activity and the lighting, and end up being more frustrating in the long run for both caregiver and child. I think this would be an OK timer for an older child or adult working on quiet table activities. Read more

I haven't been good about writing reviews even though I live and die by them. But I felt compelled to write this since I bought this on a lightning deal ignoring all the bad reviews and just hoping they were flukes. Well, I was really excited to get this since my daughter is very curious about time and having "5 more minutes" to do something. First of all, the timer is not intuitive to set. I understood this since I read all the reviews prior to buying but here's a recap. The Green dial is the TOTAL time you want the timer set for and the yellow is the TOTAL REMAINING time you want the timer light to be yellow. EX: You want a 30 minute timer and the yellow to go off when there's 5 minutes left. Set the green to 30 and the yellow to 5. Now that that's out of the way, it worked for a whole day and then the yellow wouldn't light up anymore. Knowing Amazon is amazing, I sent it back and got a replacement. Lo and behold, the same thing happened to the second one. It would work great for one day and stop working the next. No explanation. No rhyme or reason. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good alternative so I returned this for the second time and I'm in the market for another timer. One that works on the second day. Read more

When we first received it my son was very excited and eager to try it. But we were all disappointed. It has a number of design flaws but here's the biggest one: you don't see the passage of time in any way. It doesn't count down or visualize the time or move the dial or do ANYTHING resembling a clock or a timer. It does ring at the end and turn red. And you can set it to change yellow as a warning at the time of your choosing (eg 10-minute warning or 5-minute warning) but unfortunately you have no way of knowing how much time has lapsed or how much time remains until it beeps that there is no time left. Huge oversight. We are returning it. Wouldn't recommend it. Read more

My engineer husband, my smart daughter, and I all tried to make this work during the last 24 hours. sometimes we did, sometimes we didn't. The instructions make it sound like you twist the green timer dial to the minutes you want before the warning yellow light comes on. And you set the minutes on the yellow dial for how long before the red alarm comes on. NOT SO. This works:1-turn the green power/volume dial to on2-turn the green minute dial to the TOTAL # of minutes before you want the buzzer to go off and the light turn red.3-turn the yellow minute dial to the # of minutes DURING those total minutes that you want to be a yellow warning.4-push start.I was ready to ask for a replacement assuming this was broken when my husband figured it out. Good luck! We deducted 1 star for the learning difficulties. Read more

Pro - Big dome light gives clear indication if the time period expired.Cons - 1) Failed after ten weeks (beeped and dome light turned yellow at warning time, but intermittently did NOT beep and light up red at time expiration - light would remain yellow forever). 2) Sound is too brief and easy for child to miss if they are engrossed in an activity, even at full volume and indoors. 3) Cannot tell how much time is remaining. 4) Warning timer dial confusingly sets a second timer, which has to be less than the main timer. It would be more natural for it to be how many minutes prior to main timer the warning timer goes off.We bought a second unit after the first one failed. It's working fine, but I expect it will fail soon, too. We wanted to buy a different product but couldn't find one with a two-hour timer. We took the first one apart for fun - didn't see any obvious problems with its somewhat-simple circuitry. Perhaps the firmware suffered a glitch? Read more

Très simple d'utilisation et de bonne taille. Il aide mon petit à appréhender le temps (durée du dessin animé, pour ranger..)Il est très appréciable de pouvoir régler le volume de la sonnerie. On le règle comme un minuteur de cuisine, mais bonne surprise, le décompte ne fait pas de bruit.Je ne mets pas 5 étoiles car la couleur orange (d'une durée d'au moins 5 minutes) clignote tout le temps, ce que je trouve stressant ou détourne l'attention. J'aurais nettement préféré qu'elle soit fixe ou éventuellement qu'elle clignote sur la dernière minute.Ce minuteur étant ludique et très bien pour gérer des temps d'activités d'enfants, je vous le recommande malgré la lumière clignotante. Pour information on peut également choisir de passer directement du vert au rouge.Autre point positif par rapport à la version digitale (qui est bcp plus grande) vous pouvez toujours laisser la même durée et juste appuyer sur start pour lancer le décompte.Si vous avez apprécié mon commentaire, faite le moi savoir par un petit clic ;-) Read more

Wir sind völlig schockiert über die vielen guten Bewertungen. Tolle Idee, aber nicht zu Ende gedacht. Die grün-gelben Räder drehen/stellen sich beim ablaufen der Zeit nicht mit zurück. Wenn ein Kind z.B. 15 min Zeit für umziehen, Zähneputzen und Toilettengang hat, dann erhält man zwar auf Wunsch z.B. 5 min vor Ende der Zeit ein visuelles und akustisches Signal, aber die Kids haben davor und danach keinerlei Ahnung wie viel Zeit sie noch zur verfügung haben. Unser Sohn ist 6, eine einfache 15 min Sanduhr ist besser als dieser Timer, er kann dort zumindest ungefähr abschätzen wie viel Zeit er noch hat. Omas Eieruhr wäre die beste Lösung, läuft langsam zurück und es gibt ein akustisches Signal am Ende. Read more

Junk.Sadly this isn't at all fit for purpose. It is really really quiet so useless as an alarm. It can also only set in 5 minute increments so of limited uses. The light is barely visible during the daytime. The time dials ft actually move so you have no idea how much time has elapsed since you set your alarm.And did I mention how quiet it is? Seriously an alarm you can't hear unless it's within a couple of metres?! I honestly just don't get it. Very disappointed. Read more

Brought 1st one turned up broken sending it back ordered a replacement one set timer and it does absolutely nothing so sending the second one back as well would advise people look for something different Read more

This is quite expensive for what it is but it does the job well and is really useful for helping my children know when it's time to leave for school! Read more