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Fact sheet

Name: 59 min
Developer: Marco Lüthi, Zürich, Switzerland
Category: Productivity, Utilities (visual timer)
Platforms: iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 or later
Status: Available on the App Store
Price: Free
Language: English
Released: April 2025
Website: apps.marcoluthi.com/59-min
Contact: hi@luthi-mar.co

About 59 min

In one sentence

59 min is a visual one-hour timer for iPhone and iPad that you set by turning your phone, like the dial of a kitchen timer: a red disk shows the time left and shrinks as it runs down.

Longer

59 min sets a timer the way a kitchen timer does: by turning it. Users tap plus and rotate their iPhone, and a red disk fills the dial. One full turn is one hour, every six degrees a minute. Tap again and the disk starts to shrink, so the time left is readable at a glance, without reading a number.

While setting, a tap on the dial adds a milestone, for example ten minutes left, which rings its own alert when the countdown gets there. The alarms are scheduled with Apple's AlarmKit, so they ring even when the app is closed or the phone is locked, and the countdown shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island with a Stop button.

A running timer can be shared by QR code: other phones with 59 min scan it and count down to the same moment, milestones included. That makes it a timer for a whole room, from workshops and breakout sessions to classrooms. There's no account, and the timer travels in the code itself.

Features

Set up to an hour by turning the phone; it follows the compass heading
A red disk shows the time left and shrinks as it runs down
Milestones: extra alerts before the end, added with a tap on the dial
Alarms through AlarmKit that ring with the app closed or the phone locked
The countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with Stop
Share a running timer by QR code; other phones count down to the same moment
Shake to cancel; the screen stays awake while a timer runs
Light and Dark Mode, no account

App icon

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App Store screenshots

The iPhone set with captions. The iPad set (2064 × 2752) is in the ZIP.

Screens

Full-screen captures without captions.

About the developer

59 min is made by Marco Lüthi, an independent developer in Zürich who builds apps for iPhone and Mac. For interviews or anything else, write to hi@luthi-mar.co. More apps are on the overview.