Does Google Meet have a Timer?

When you think about online video calls, Google Meet is one of the first tools you picture. And it’s easy to see why. It offers a wide range of features, super useful and helpful to conduct meetings both for your home usage as well as for professionals. The big advantage of Google Meet is that it’s a part of the whole, big Google package you get when creating an account in Gmail. Thanks to that, using Google Meet is simple, natural and quick. Users got used to Google’s way of defining User Interface and its integration with other tools. Google Meet also offers call recording as well as transcriptions, out of the box. That helps to share calls with participants who couldn’t be present.

There are some areas where some features are not still there yet but many users request them. Some of them are obvious but it’s hard to find a proper solution to find a workaround. The Timer functionality as well as being able to track the time during the call in Google Meet is one of the biggest missing parts of Google Meet. We’ll try to help you with resolving this issue.

Does Google Meet have a Timer?

At this moment, Google Meet doesn’t have any built-in Timer. There are plenty of Chrome Extensions which extend the app with Timer though. You can find them by going to Google Web Store. Some of them are very simple, but when you’re looking for something more useful, which automatically counts the time down, you can try using “Meeting Timer - for Google Meet” plugin.

Meeting Timer - for Google Meet - Chrome Extension - Different states of the timer.

How to track time in Google Meet?

The best way would be to install a Chrome Extenstion that extends Google Meet witch such a funcionality.

1. Go to "Google Web Store".
2. Search for Chrome Extension called “Meeting Timer - for Google Meet” and add it to Chrome browser.
3. Once installed you can use it in two modes.
4. Use it in "Manual Mode" by defining time duration manually.
5. Use it in "Automatic Mode" by connecting to built in integration with Google Calendar (optional).

Meeting Timer - for Google Meet - Chrome Extension - Setting up the time limit example.

Does Google Meet track time?

Currently Google Meet doesn't have any functionality that would allow you to track the time automatically. The only known way to add Timer to your Google Meet is to install a proper Chrome Extension from Google Web Store. You have different choices and it’s up to you which one will meet your needs. We recommend trying out different options and comparing the functionalities. You should pay attention to features like counting the time down (most of them only count time up), ease of usage, friendly UI and support from the extension creators.

Summary

Tracking the time in Google Meet is very important. Especially nowadays when time is precious and it’s very easy to spend literally a whole day on meetings without any productive output. Make sure you track you time properly by using the Chrome extension to measure Google Meet time. If you’re interested in other tricks about how to optimize your online calls, you may want to read our article about it: 5 tips for productive and efficient Google Meet online calls.