When you open MC-Timer for the first time, it will display this information message, asking you to create a new session.

When you create your first session, MC-Timer will ask you for permission to access your music library (not shown here).

From this screen, you can also access the settings and a news page.

Shows the overview screen with an existing session.

A short description in the box outlines the timings:

1. 12 repeats of 45 seconds music and 15 seconds pause;
2. 45 seconds pause;
3. 12 repeats of 45 seconds music and 15 seconds pause.

Altogether, this session will take 24 minutes and 30 seconds (since the final 15 seconds are skipped).

The session uses a playlist as well as 6 hand-picked songs. An animation shows a selection of the cover artworks.

The playback controls at the bottom allow you to play this session directly. To expand the playback screen, you can swipe it up.

This is the expanded playback screen where you can see your progress within the current music step (inner green ring) and your progress within the entire session (outer red ring). Right now, there are 36 seconds left with music (counting down). Next will be 15 seconds without music.

At the top you can see a session countdown timer on the left and a music step countdown on the right. Both of these can be changed to count up instead of down by tapping them. The arrow pointing down indicates that the music step count is configured to count down.

The speech bubble button toggles the voice announcements, which are currently not enabled.

The circular arrow controls allow you to skip or repeat a step. For this step, MC-Timer suggests an exercise and also shows a hint om which exercise will be next. The fast-forward and backwards controls allow you to skip or repeat a song.

This is the expanded playback screen shown about 7 minutes later.

There are now only 15 minutes and 57 seconds remaining in this session, and there are still 16 music steps remaining (including the currently playing one).

12 more seconds and you have finished your set!

Voice announcements have been turned on as indicated by the quotation marks in the speech bubble button.

To pause, you can press one of the two pause buttons; the left one in the circle will pause the workout but not the music, whereas the regular pause button on the right will pause both.

(See also the MC-Timer page for a web-simulation of the progress rings).

To edit a session, you open this detail screen. Here you can change its name and mark it as a favourite by selecting the heart-styled Like button. You can navigate to supplementary screens to edit the music playlist and the playback options.

Next you can select sound effects that are played at the beginning or end of a music step. In this example, we play a random animal sound at the end of each music step.

You can also select an additional finish sound that is played at the very end of this session.

Scroll down in this screen to edit the sets (next screen).

This session has three sets, consisting of:

1. 12 repeats of 45 seconds music and 15 seconds pause;
2. 45 seconds pause;
3. 12 repeats of 45 seconds music and 15 seconds pause;

Different exercise lists have been chosen for the sets: "Exercise List 1" for set 1, and "Exercise List 2" for set 3.

Note that during playback, when you reach set 2, you will have 15 seconds of pause followed by 45 seconds of pause. MC-Timer will combine these into one 60-second-long pause.

At the very end, you may think that there would be a final 15 seconds of pause, but that is not what you get. MC-Timer will always finish the workout at end of the last music set.

In total, this session defines 47 steps, of with 24 are with music, and 23 are not.

Music Playlist

To use music with your workouts, you need to enable Play Music. The Shuffle Songs option is, well, optional. Next, you can:

• select a curated playlist from Apple Music (*);
• hand-pick any number of individual songs from Apple Music (*);
• select a playlist with songs from your iTunes music library;
• hand-pick any number of individual songs from your iTunes music library;

or any combination of these.

(*) Requires a subscription to be able to play songs from Apple Music. You can sign up from within MC-Timer.

Playback Options

You can enable Shuffle Songs independently from Shuffle Exercise Suggestions. To play a new song for every music step, enable Skip To Next Song. Announce the Next Exercise will turn on voice messages.

With Skip to Track Middle enabled, a random section from the middle of each song will be played thus skipping any slow or quiet intros. When your session details contain music steps that are very long, i.e. longer than the typical duration of a song, then it may not be possible to play just the middle section of a song.

When Try to Avoid Short Songs is on, then MC-Timer will filter your playlist to play only songs that are long enough. However, in case none of your songs are long enough, then no filtering is used and you will hear multiple songs per music step (and potentially a short pause in-between).

Start, Stop, or Finish Sounds

This screen shows the sounds that you can play at the beginning or end of a music step, or at the finish of the session.

You can choose from playing a single beep or three countdown beeps as well as:

• no sound;
• a randomly-chosen sound;
• a random bell sound;
• a random effect sound;
• a random Science Fiction sound;
• a random animal sound;
• one of the sound from the list below.

Exercise Suggestions

If you want to be given exercise suggestions during your workout, then you can define the names of the exercises here.

When enabled, the titles can be audibly announced.

You can define the order or have the list shuffled.

Optionally, you can define exercise pairs which will be expanded into two consecutive exercises. For instance the entry "Lunges, left/right" will be split into two exercises: "Lunges, left" and "Lunges, right".

When you open MC-Timer for the first time, it will display this information message, asking you to create a new session.

When you create your first session, MC-Timer will ask you for permission to access your music library (not shown here).

Shows the workout drawer with two existing sessions. The abbreviated session descriptions are the same as described above for iPhone.

The playback screen is shown in the background. If it were not visible, press the "Show Playback View" button to bring it back.

This is the expanded playback screen where you can see your progress within the current music step (inner green ring) and your progress within the entire session (outer red ring). Right now, there are 36 seconds left with music (counting down). Next will be 15 seconds without music.

At the top you can see a session countdown timer on the left and a music step countdown on the right. Both of these can be changed to count up instead of down by tapping them. The arrow pointing down indicates that the music step count is configured to count down.

The speech bubble button toggles the voice announcements, which are currently not enabled.

The circular arrow controls allow you to skip or repeat a step. For this step, MC-Timer suggests an exercise and also shows a hind on which exercise will be next. The fast-forward and backwards controls allow you to skip or repeat a song.

This is the expanded playback screen shown about 7 minutes later.

There are now only 15 minutes and 57 seconds remaining in this session, and there are still 16 music steps remaining (including the currently playing one).

12 more seconds and you have finished your set!

Voice announcements have been turned on as indicated by the quotation marks in the speech bubble button.

To pause, you can press one of the two pause buttons; the left one in the circle will pause the workout but not the music, whereas the regular pause button on the right will pause both.

(See also the MC-Timer page for a web-simulation of the progress rings).

To edit a session, you open this detail screen. Here you can change its name and you can navigate to supplementary screens to edit the music playlist and the playback options.

Next you can select sound effects that are played at the beginning or end of a music step. In this example, we play a random animal sound at the end of each music step.

You can also select an additional finish sound that is played at the very end of this session.

This session has three sets, consisting of:

1. 12 repeats of 45 seconds music and 15 seconds pause;
2. 45 seconds pause;
3. 12 repeats of 45 seconds music and 15 seconds pause;

Note that during playback, when you reach set 2, you will have 15 seconds of pause followed by 45 seconds of pause. MC-Timer will combine these into one 60-second-long pause.

At the very end, there would be a final 15 seconds of pause, except that MC-Timer will always ignore the very last pause. The session will therefore end after the last 45 seconds of music.

Music Playlist

To select which music to play, you can:

• select a curated playlist from Apple Music (*);
• hand-pick any number of individual songs from Apple Music (*);
• select a playlist with songs from your iTunes music library;
• hand-pick any number of individual songs from your iTunes music library;

or any combination of these.

(*) Requires a subscription to be able to play songs from Apple Music. You can sign up from within MC-Timer.

Playback Options

You can enable Shuffle Songs independently from Shuffle Exercise Suggestions. To play a new song for every music step, enable Skip To Next Song. Announce the Next Exercise will turn on voice messages.

With Skip to Track Middle enabled, a random section from the middle of each song will be played thus skipping any slow or quiet intros. When your session details contain music steps that are very long, i.e. longer than the typical duration of a song, then it may not be possible to play just the middle section of a song.

When Try to Avoid Short Songs is on, then MC-Timer will filter your playlist to play only songs that are long enough. However, if no songs are long enough, then no filtering is used and you will hear multiple songs per music step (and potentially a short pause in-between).

Start, Stop, or Finish Sounds

This screen shows the sounds that you can play at the beginning or end of a music step, or at the finish of the session.

You can choose from playing a single beep or five countdown beeps as well as:

• no sound;
• a randomly-chosen sound;
• a random bell sound;
• a random effect sound;
• a random animal sound;
• one of the sound from the list below.

Exercise Suggestions

If you want to be given exercise suggestions during your workout, then you can define the names of the exercises here.

When enabled, the titles can be audibly announced.

You can define the order or have the list shuffled.

Optionally, you can define exercise pairs which will be expanded into two consecutive exercises. For instance the entry "Lunges, left/right" will be split into two exercises: "Lunges, left" and "Lunges, right".

When you open MC-Timer on Apple TV, it may display this information message, asking you to sync your sessions via iCloud.

Once synchronized, your sessions are listed here.

Select the one that you want to use.

This is the playback screen where you can see your progress within the current music step (inner green ring) and your progress within the entire session (outer red ring). Right now, there are 36 seconds left with music (counting down). Next will be 15 seconds without music.

At the top you can see a session countdown timer on the left and a music step countdown on the right. Both of these can be changed to count up instead of down by selecting them using the remote. The arrow pointing down indicates that the music step count is configured to count down.

The circular arrow controls allow you to skip or repeat a step. The fast-forward and backwards controls allow you to skip or repeat a song.

This is the playback screen shown about 7 minutes later.

There are now only 15 minutes and 57 seconds remaining in this session, and there are still 16 music steps remaining (including the currently playing one).

12 more seconds and you have finished your set!

Voice announcements have been turned on as indicated by the quotation marks in the speech bubble button.

To pause, you can press one of the two pause buttons; the right one in the circle will pause the workout but not the music, whereas the regular pause button on the left will pause both.

(See also the MC-Timer page for a web-simulation of the progress rings).