Arcade Counter Timer

Arcade Counter Timer combines a count-up timer and a tally counter. Choose a toolbar popup, a draggable timer on a web page, or Chrome's side panel. It stays quiet while you work and celebrates milestones with brief arcade-style feedback. CHOOSE YOUR PLACEMENT Open settings with the gear icon and select POPUP, FLOATING or SIDE PANEL. The floating timer supports dragging, position memory, compact/full size and a position lock. To place it on a new page, click the extension icon on that page. Chrome settings, the Web Store and other protected pages do not support floating placement. Keyboard shortcuts apply while the timer itself has focus. UPDATES THAT KEEP YOUR RECORDS Normal updates to this same extension keep your statistics and settings. Version 0.2.0 also keeps a local pre-update snapshot and stops automatically deleting older daily history. After a version upgrade, a themed NEW FEATURE strip appears once below COUNT. It does not appear on fresh installation or each reopening. Uninstalling removes local data; update the existing extension to keep your records. TIMER Press START to begin and STOP to pause. The time is shown as HH:MM:SS and stays correct past 100 hours. The timer keeps running while the popup is closed and after you restart the browser, because elapsed time is calculated from a saved timestamp rather than from a running script. An optional small clock in the header shows the current local time. COUNTER Press COUNT, or the Space key, to add one. One press is always exactly one count — holding a key down does not run away with the total. RESETS Every reset is press-and-hold, so a stray click cannot wipe your session. RESET TIMER clears only the timer. RESET COUNT clears only the count. SESSION RESET clears both. None of them touch your statistics: if the timer was running, the time it had accumulated is credited to the right day first. STATISTICS The gear icon opens a second screen with your totals for TODAY, WEEK, MONTH and YEAR, for both time and count. Only a daily history is stored, and the longer periods are derived from it, so nothing drifts out of step when a week or month rolls over. Time that crosses local midnight is split and credited to each day. MILESTONE EFFECTS Counting at a steady rhythm shows a brief line of encouragement — GOOD!, NICE!, GREAT!, FANTASTIC! Every tenth count of a session sets off a CHAIN burst instead, with a rising arpeggio, a few sparks and a soft flash. Effects last a few hundred milliseconds and never block what you are doing. SOUND All sound effects are generated in the extension with the Web Audio API. There are no audio files and no downloads. Sound can be switched off. SETTINGS Choose from three visual themes: Original, Arcade and Editorial. The theme changes presentation only; all timer, counter, reset and statistics behavior stays the same. The local clock, sound, fly text, chain effect and subtle CRT scanlines can each be turned on or off. CLEAR ALL DATA, behind a confirmation dialog, returns everything to defaults. The extension also respects your system's reduced-motion preference. KEYBOARD Enter starts and stops the timer. Space adds a count. Holding R resets the session. Escape returns from the statistics screen. PRIVACY Arcade Counter Timer works entirely on your device. It uses storage to save your records, activeTab and scripting to insert the floating timer only when you invoke it, and sidePanel for the native side panel. It has no persistent host permissions. The inserted code positions its own UI; it does not extract webpage text, forms or browsing history. A local background worker keeps open views in sync. No network requests, remote code, accounts, advertising, analytics or cloud sync are used. Your records stay in local extension storage. Free and open source, licensed under GPL-3.0-only.