Upcoming features
None of what follows exists yet. This page says where the app is going, so you know what to expect — and what is still uncertain.
Already shipped
AVAILABLE
This page was written before several of these features. What follows is no longer upcoming: it is live, free, and needs no account.
- Session history. Session count, cumulative time, and the list of recent ones — behind the settings gear. It all lives on your device; nothing is sent anywhere.
- Sharing by link and QR code. The link carries the whole session, blocks included. Whoever opens it gets the timer already set up, with no account and no install — useful for handing the same session to a whole room.
- Interface in French and English, switchable straight from the home screen. Your browser's language applies by default.
- Preset sessions by link: a Tabata, a ten-round EMOM or a twelve-minute AMRAP open in one click from the format pages.
- Aborting mid-session from the cross in the top-left corner, with a confirmation — an accidental touch costs nothing.
Account and saved sessions
PLANNED
Sign-in with a Google account, no password to remember, so you can save sessions and find them again. Today the app keeps the last configuration of each format on the device; tomorrow you will be able to name several, organise them, and start yesterday's session in one gesture.
Quick relaunch
PARTLY SHIPPED
The START button on the home screen already relaunches the last session you ran, without going through the configuration again: the most frequent use of a gym timer is redoing what you already did.
What is missing is several named sessions, picked from a list. That requires being able to name and organise them, so it depends on the point above.
Usage statistics
PARTLY SHIPPED
Session count, cumulative time, and consistency over recent weeks. Enough to see progress without turning the app into a dashboard. A local history already ships today, behind the settings gear — it lives on your device and nowhere else.
Multi-device sync
PLANNED
Configure a session on your computer, find it on your phone at the gym. This is the only feature on this list that genuinely requires a server — the others can live on the device.
Free today, and after?
Round & Rest is free, ad-free, and sells no data. It is a student project, built and hosted on my own means.
The features above change one thing: an account, sync and statistics imply a server running permanently and a database. Those are recurring costs, and they grow with the number of users.
I would rather say it now than spring it on someone later: if usage grows, part of the app may have to become paid to cover those costs. The timer itself — the five formats, offline use, installing it on your phone — needs no server at all, and I fully intend to keep it that way.
An idea, a need?
This list is not fixed, and neither is the order. Real usage beats intuition: if a feature is missing for you, it is probably missing for others too.
Today, without an account
The app already works on its own: five formats, offline, installable, and no sign-up. Open the timer — or plug it into Claude or ChatGPT to dictate a session instead of configuring it.
Every format has its own page, with a definition, a worked session and a timer already set up: intervals, EMOM, AMRAP, For Time, Tabata.