Amazon / Utilities / SIMPLE TIMER 2
REVIEW
Simple Timer 2 is exactly as advertised, for better and worse.
An indie countdown timer for Fire tablets that does one thing, charges nothing, and asks nothing in return — which is the strength and the limit.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
The Amazon Appstore has a category of app that barely exists on iOS or Google Play in 2026: the free, no-account, no-ads, no-telemetry indie utility that does one thing. Simple Timer 2 is exactly that — a countdown timer from a developer called Kenny Ge, with two screenshots in the listing and a description field so terse it tells you almost nothing about what’s inside.
What’s inside is a countdown timer. Type in hours, minutes, seconds. Press start. Wait. Beep. There is nothing else.
The kind of utility you install once, use for tea or laundry, and then forget you have until the next time you need it — which is, in the end, the whole point of a kitchen timer.
The kind of utility you install once, use for tea or laundry, and then forget you have until the next time you need it.
FEATURES
Simple Timer 2 is a countdown timer for Amazon Fire tablets from indie developer Kenny Ge. Set hours, minutes, and seconds, hit start, and an alarm sounds when the count hits zero. There is one timer at a time, no presets to save, no labels, no recurring schedules, no widget, no Alexa hook.
The interface is two screens: a digit pad to enter the duration and a running countdown with a stop button. No account, no ads in the listing metadata, no in-app purchases. The app is free outright — not free-with-upsell, which is rarer than it should be on the Amazon Appstore.
Compatibility goes back to older Fire tablets, which is the obvious use case: a cheap kitchen tablet propped against the kettle, or a kids' Fire repurposed for homework sessions.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The single biggest win is restraint. The Amazon Appstore is full of timer apps that demand notification permissions, run background ads, push you toward a Pro tier, or try to be a Pomodoro coach. Simple Timer 2 does none of that. You open it, you set a number, you get a beep. Done.
Indie utility software at zero price with no telemetry pretensions has earned a permanent place on a Fire tablet's home screen for a lot of households, and this is one of the cleaner examples on the store.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The headline limit is exactly what the name promises: one timer, one duration, no concurrency. Anyone who wants to time pasta and an oven and a kettle at once needs to look elsewhere — multi-timer support is the single feature that would lift this from a 6.8 to an 8. There is also no way to save common durations as one-tap presets, which is the second obvious upgrade.
Alarm tone customisation is minimal. The default sound is functional but harsh, and on a Fire tablet's speaker it's the kind of beep you instinctively want to mute. A small library of selectable tones, or the ability to point at a system sound, would close the gap.
CONCLUSION
Simple Timer 2 is the right install for a kitchen-counter Fire tablet or a child's homework session, and it's free, which makes the choice easy. For anyone juggling more than one cook or workout interval, look at a multi-timer app instead. The fact that it asks for nothing is the entire pitch — and on a platform full of utilities that ask for too much, that pitch lands.