Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a kind of kitchen timer. It knows two phases, the active and the passive phase. These phases have durations, configurable in Gymnastics's settings. All times are measured in seconds. When a phase is started, the time is started to get counted down from this duration to zero, and then the other phase gets started. The current phase and the remaining time are shown in Gymnastics's only window, and the end of the phase as well as the halftime of the active phase are announced orally.

Installation

The only known way of obtaining Gymnastics is to download the disk image. An automatic updater is planned.

Usage

Phases are started using the commands in the "Phases" menu.

It is possible to suspend and resume the countdown by hitting the space bar.

Limitations

• Due to the consequent use of Apple's incomplete SwiftUI, the window cannot be prevented from being closed, a second window cannot be prevented from getting opened, and the application cannot quit automatically if the last window is closed.
• Gymnastics is localized only for English and German. Hebrew and French are on the to-be-done list. For Russian my motivation dropped to zero on February 24, 2022.
• Gymnastics has no application icon. This will of course be supplied with a forthcoming version.
• no automatic software update

Source Code

… is available here, so you can verify that the program does not try to raid your refrigerator.