Brown aTime

Brown aTime is a small Windows application whose purpose is to help you check out how much time you spend working on different projects or tasks with the aid of a stopwatch and countdown timer.

Minimalistic looks

You are welcomed by a clean feature lineup that allows you to carry out most operations with minimal effort. Everything is kept as basic as possible, so there’s support for only a few parameters that you can experiment with.

Timing you activities

Brown aTime gives you the possibility to start, stop, pause, or reset the stopwatch and save the time result to plain text file format.
Additionally, you are allowed to make use of a countdown timer and set up the time by selecting from several preset values (only in minutes). When the time is up, the app plays a preset sound notification.

Performance

During our testing we have noticed that Brown aTime carries out a task quickly. As it would be expected from such a small utility, it remains light on system resources, so it doesn’t hamper computer performance, nor interfere with other programs’ functionality.

Where it falls short

On the downside, the tool doesn’t let you enter a user-defined time value and specify the time in hours, minutes, and seconds for the countdown timer. You cannot add custom audio files from your computer as sound notifications, reveal popup messages, trigger a specific task at the end of timer (e.g. run a program, shut down the computer), and use hotkeys.

Bottom line

To sum things up, Brown aTime proves to be a simplistic piece of software that comes bundled with limited features for helping you time your activities.