Shareable Timer Links: The Easiest Way to Sync With a Team
The moment a timer involves more than one person, the question is: who holds the clock? Shareable links are Tempo's answer.
Timers are usually personal. You set one for yourself, it tells you when something is done, and that's the end of it.
But a lot of the things people time happen in groups. Cooking with a partner. Running a class or workshop. Coaching a team through a circuit. Managing a meeting agenda with multiple people in the room.
The moment a timer involves more than one person, the question becomes: who holds the clock? And how does everyone else know where things stand?
Shareable links are Tempo's answer.
How it works
At any point, you can click Copy shareable link in Tempo. This generates a URL that encodes your entire current timer setup — every timer's name, description, duration, mode, and chain configuration — directly into the URL itself.
Send that URL to anyone. When they open it, they're prompted to load your timer configuration onto their own board. They get the exact setup you built — same timers, same chains, same structure — ready to start.
No account needed. No server involved. The data is in the URL.
What gets encoded
- Timer names and descriptions
- Durations and modes (countdown, stopwatch, alarm)
- Chain configuration (which timer follows which)
- Order of the timers
Everything someone needs to run the same session you designed.
Practical examples
Cooking together. You're hosting dinner with a friend helping in the kitchen. You set up your cooking sequence — roast (40:00) → rest (5:00), rice (18:00), sauce (25:00) — and share the link. Both of you have the same timer board on your respective devices. No more "how long does the chicken have left?" across the kitchen.
Running a fitness class. You're coaching a group. You build the circuit sequence: work (0:40) → rest (0:20), 8 rounds. Share the link with participants who want to follow along on their own devices. Everyone is on the same clock.
Workshop facilitation. You're running a session with timed segments. Build the agenda as a timer sequence and share the link with co-facilitators. When you start the sequence, they can see the same timer configuration — useful if they're managing different parts of the session.
Sharing recipes with timing. You blog about food, or share recipes with friends. Instead of writing "cook for 35 minutes, then rest for 10" — which the reader has to manually set up — you include a Tempo link. They click it, load your timer sequence, and the timing is already built.
Team working sessions. You're running a timed sprint with a remote team. Share the timer link in Slack or a meeting chat. Everyone loads the same countdown. No one has to wonder how much time is left.
Why this is better than just saying the times
Writing "set a 25-minute timer, then a 5-minute break, then another 25 minutes" is technically complete information. But it requires the other person to actually set all of that up — to make the timers, label them, chain them. That's friction.
A shareable link removes that friction entirely. You built the setup once. Everyone else gets it in one click.
The privacy side
Because the timer data is encoded in the URL itself, there's no server storing your timer configurations. The link contains everything — it's self-contained. This also means links work indefinitely; there's nothing to expire or delete server-side.