A large, on-screen countdown — free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser.
A visible countdown does something a silent break doesn't: it tells viewers exactly how long to expect before things resume, rather than leaving them guessing whether a stream has frozen, ended, or is just on a short break. This is useful well beyond streaming too — a giveaway entry window, a timed challenge, a break during a workshop or class, or a "starting in" screen before an event all benefit from the same thing: a number people can glance at once and then ignore, rather than needing to keep asking how much longer.
The display flashes to indicate time's up — there's no sound, since browsers can restrict autoplaying audio, but the large flashing display is designed to be noticeable even from across a room or in a stream overlay.
Yes — Pause freezes the countdown exactly where it is, and Start picks up from there. Reset clears it back to your set duration.
Yes — there's no separate hours field, but the minutes input has no upper limit, so entering 60 minutes gives a full hour-long countdown just as well as a 30-second one.
Yes — "Copy OBS embed link" gives you a link showing just the timer on a transparent background with no page chrome. It stays live: change the duration or colour here later and the same link updates automatically within a few seconds, without needing to copy and re-paste a new one into OBS.
No. The timer runs entirely locally in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.