Keep your stream on schedule, on screen
Give every segment of your stream a visible countdown, and let viewers submit and upvote questions without digging through chat.
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Top questions
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A stream that runs on a loose schedule loses viewers — a segment that overruns pushes everything after it, and a Q&A that's buried in chat means the best questions get missed. asktimer.com gives you a live countdown you can put on screen, a confidence monitor if someone else is presenting, and a Q&A queue that sorts by upvotes instead of scroll speed — useful for webinars, AMAs, product demos, and any livestream with more than one segment.
How it works
Load your stream's segments
Add a timer for each part of your stream — intro, main topic, Q&A, whatever your run of show looks like.
Overlay or glance at the countdown
Keep the countdown visible on your own screen (or capture it into your streaming software) so you always know how much segment time is left.
Let viewers ask without scrolling chat
Viewers submit questions from a link and upvote the ones they most want answered, so you're not fishing for good questions out of a fast-moving chat.
Live stage timer
Countdown per speaker, host controls, and a confidence monitor your speaker can glance at from the podium.
Audience Q&A, built in
Your audience submits questions and upvotes the ones they care about most, live, from their own phone.
How do you handle rate limiting for votes?
Can we moderate questions before they're shown?
One link each, nothing to install
Host, speaker, and audience each get a simple link. No app downloads, no accounts for anyone but you.
A countdown timer for streams helps your best questions survive long enough to get answered
Chat moves fast, and the best question can scroll past in seconds — a separate, upvoted queue means the most-wanted questions survive long enough to actually get answered.
Frequently asked questions
How do I time segments during a livestream?
Add a timer for each segment of your stream and run through them from one control view — keep the countdown visible on your own screen or capture it into your streaming software.
What's a good free timer for streamers?
asktimer.com is free to start — a segment countdown plus an upvoted viewer Q&A queue, so you don't need a separate stream timer overlay and a separate chat-question tool.
How do I collect audience questions without relying on chat?
Share your stream's audience link — viewers submit questions from their own device and upvote the ones they most want answered, independent of how fast chat is scrolling.
Can I show the countdown on screen during my stream?
Yes — the speaker/confidence monitor view is a clean, full-screen countdown you can capture as a source in your streaming software, or just glance at off to the side.
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