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Play Timer

Play Timer is a media player, available on Linux.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

Overview

Play Timer is a media player, available on Linux. Other documented uses: timers and time tracking.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Native-feeling timers” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“Timer app pretending to be a media player.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Play Timer is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

Timer app with seamless integration accomplished by pretending to be a media player. Ultimately, serves the only purpose — to start a timer quickly and efficiently. Notifications included! Play Timer aims to be as keyboard friendly as possible. Use navigation keys (arrows, tab, shift+tab, space, enter) or start inputting numbers right away. The app is CLI-friendly, try `flatpak run io.github.efogdev.mpris-timer -help`!

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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