diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d1f878a9..c8ba0a61 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## Changelog
 
+### 12.74.0
+
+* `[timeutil]` Added method `PrettyDurationSimple` for printing duration in simple format
+
 ### 12.73.2
 
 * `[fmtutil]` Fixed handling negative numbers in `PrettySize`
diff --git a/ek.go b/ek.go
index 8b75b28c..8dc5a8d6 100644
--- a/ek.go
+++ b/ek.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import (
 // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //
 
 // VERSION is current ek package version
-const VERSION = "12.73.2"
+const VERSION = "12.74.0"
 
 // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //
 
diff --git a/timeutil/example_test.go b/timeutil/example_test.go
index 70bb9ef0..c5836279 100644
--- a/timeutil/example_test.go
+++ b/timeutil/example_test.go
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ import (
 // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //
 
 func ExamplePrettyDuration() {
-	// you can use int ...
+	// you can use int/int64/uint as seconds...
 	fmt.Println(PrettyDuration(300))
 
-	// ... and time.Duration types
+	// ...or time.Duration types
 	fmt.Println(PrettyDuration(123456 * time.Second))
 
 	// Output:
@@ -26,11 +26,20 @@ func ExamplePrettyDuration() {
 	// 1 day 10 hours 17 minutes and 36 seconds
 }
 
+func ExamplePrettyDurationSimple() {
+	// you can use int/int64/uint as seconds...
+	fmt.Println(PrettyDurationSimple(300))
+
+	// ...or time.Duration types
+	fmt.Println(PrettyDurationSimple(50400 * time.Second))
+
+	// Output:
+	// 5 minutes
+	// 14 hours
+}
+
 func ExamplePrettyDurationInDays() {
-	// you can use int ...
 	fmt.Println(PrettyDurationInDays(2 * time.Hour))
-
-	// ... and time.Duration types
 	fmt.Println(PrettyDurationInDays(168 * time.Hour))
 
 	// Output:
diff --git a/timeutil/timeutil.go b/timeutil/timeutil.go
index 28d52fc3..f88018b5 100644
--- a/timeutil/timeutil.go
+++ b/timeutil/timeutil.go
@@ -47,6 +47,17 @@ func PrettyDuration(d any) string {
 	return getPrettyLongDuration(dur)
 }
 
+// PrettyDurationSimple returns simple pretty duration (seconds → minutes → hours → days)
+func PrettyDurationSimple(d any) string {
+	dur, ok := convertDuration(d)
+
+	if !ok {
+		return ""
+	}
+
+	return getPrettySimpleDuration(dur)
+}
+
 // PrettyDurationInDays returns pretty duration in days (e.g. 15 days)
 func PrettyDurationInDays(d any) string {
 	dur, ok := convertDuration(d)
@@ -92,50 +103,50 @@ func MiniDuration(d time.Duration) string {
 //
 // Interpreted sequences:
 //
-//    '%%' a literal %
-//    '%a' locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
-//    '%A' locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
-//    '%b' locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
-//    '%B' locale's full month name (e.g., January)
-//    '%c' locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
-//    '%C' century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)
-//    '%d' day of month (e.g, 01)
-//    '%D' date; same as %m/%d/%y
-//    '%e' day of month, space padded
-//    '%F' full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
-//    '%g' last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
-//    '%G' year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
-//    '%h' same as %b
-//    '%H' hour (00..23)
-//    '%I' hour (01..12)
-//    '%j' day of year (001..366)
-//    '%k' hour ( 0..23)
-//    '%K' milliseconds (000..999)
-//    '%l' hour ( 1..12)
-//    '%m' month (01..12)
-//    '%M' minute (00..59)
-//    '%n' a newline
-//    '%N' nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
-//    '%p' AM or PM
-//    '%P' like %p, but lower case
-//    '%r' locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
-//    '%R' 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
-//    '%s' seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
-//    '%S' second (00..60)
-//    '%t' a tab
-//    '%T' time; same as %H:%M:%S
-//    '%u' day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
-//    '%U' week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
-//    '%V' ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
-//    '%w' day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
-//    '%W' week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
-//    '%x' locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
-//    '%X' locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
-//    '%y' last two digits of year (00..99)
-//    '%Y' year
-//    '%z' +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
-//    '%:z' +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)
-//    '%Z' alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)
+//	'%%' a literal %
+//	'%a' locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
+//	'%A' locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
+//	'%b' locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
+//	'%B' locale's full month name (e.g., January)
+//	'%c' locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)
+//	'%C' century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20)
+//	'%d' day of month (e.g, 01)
+//	'%D' date; same as %m/%d/%y
+//	'%e' day of month, space padded
+//	'%F' full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
+//	'%g' last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
+//	'%G' year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
+//	'%h' same as %b
+//	'%H' hour (00..23)
+//	'%I' hour (01..12)
+//	'%j' day of year (001..366)
+//	'%k' hour ( 0..23)
+//	'%K' milliseconds (000..999)
+//	'%l' hour ( 1..12)
+//	'%m' month (01..12)
+//	'%M' minute (00..59)
+//	'%n' a newline
+//	'%N' nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
+//	'%p' AM or PM
+//	'%P' like %p, but lower case
+//	'%r' locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
+//	'%R' 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
+//	'%s' seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
+//	'%S' second (00..60)
+//	'%t' a tab
+//	'%T' time; same as %H:%M:%S
+//	'%u' day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
+//	'%U' week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
+//	'%V' ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
+//	'%w' day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
+//	'%W' week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
+//	'%x' locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
+//	'%X' locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
+//	'%y' last two digits of year (00..99)
+//	'%Y' year
+//	'%z' +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
+//	'%:z' +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)
+//	'%Z' alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)
 func Format(d time.Time, f string) string {
 	input := bytes.NewBufferString(f)
 	output := bytes.NewBufferString("")
@@ -722,6 +733,23 @@ MAINLOOP:
 	return result[0]
 }
 
+func getPrettySimpleDuration(dur time.Duration) string {
+	d := int64(dur.Seconds())
+
+	switch {
+	case d >= _DAY:
+		return pluralize.PS(pluralize.En, "%d %s", d/_DAY, "day", "days")
+	case d >= _HOUR:
+		return pluralize.PS(pluralize.En, "%d %s", d/_HOUR, "hour", "hours")
+	case d >= _MINUTE:
+		return pluralize.PS(pluralize.En, "%d %s", d/_MINUTE, "minute", "minutes")
+	case d >= 1:
+		return pluralize.PS(pluralize.En, "%d %s", d, "second", "seconds")
+	}
+
+	return "< 1 second"
+}
+
 // codebeat:enable[BLOCK_NESTING]
 
 func getPrettyShortDuration(d time.Duration) string {
diff --git a/timeutil/timeutil_test.go b/timeutil/timeutil_test.go
index f4caa55e..ba8c43c7 100644
--- a/timeutil/timeutil_test.go
+++ b/timeutil/timeutil_test.go
@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ func (s *TimeUtilSuite) TestPretyDuration(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(PrettyDuration(time.Second/36698888), Equals, "27 ns")
 }
 
+func (s *TimeUtilSuite) TestPrettyDurationSimple(c *C) {
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(true), Equals, "")
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(0), Equals, "< 1 second")
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(1), Equals, "1 second")
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(123), Equals, "2 minutes")
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(12134), Equals, "3 hours")
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(112345), Equals, "1 day")
+	c.Assert(PrettyDurationSimple(4523412), Equals, "52 days")
+}
+
 func (s *TimeUtilSuite) TestPretyDurationInDays(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(PrettyDurationInDays("ABC"), Equals, "")
 	c.Assert(PrettyDurationInDays(120), Equals, "1 day")