ABC Fireworks vs Timer99
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABC Fireworks
This app helps toddlers learn the alphabet through interactive fireworks. Touching the screen triggers a colorful display with sounds for each letter, making early education engaging and fun.
- Learn upper case letters
- Sound for each letter
- Interactive firework displays
- Touch-to-play functionality
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Light up your child's imagination with ABC Fireworks, created by PayneBrain. ABC Fireworks transforms early preschool learning into a calming, multi-sensory firework show. Tap the dark night sky, watch a colorful voxel rocket climb, and listen to the gentle boom as it bursts into letters, numbers, colors, shapes, sight words, and animals. Designed specifically for toddlers and preschoolers ages 1 to 5, ABC Fireworks pairs clean 3D voxel visuals with warm spoken narration and gentle haptic feedback. It provides a peaceful, screen-positive learning environment that never overwhelms. SIX LEARNING CATEGORIES ABCs: Tap through the entire alphabet from A to Z with uppercase and lowercase letters and clear phonetic word associations. Included free. Numbers and Counting: Watch numerals 1 through 10 burst with synchronized counting audio and pops underneath. Included free. Shapes: Discover 12 geometric shapes including circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, star, heart, diamond, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and crescent. Colors: Learn primary and secondary colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, and a grand rainbow burst. Sight Words: Practice 40 Dolch pre-primer sight words to give early readers confidence and vocabulary recognition. Animals: Meet 11 recognizable animal silhouettes including dog, cat, fish, bird, butterfly, turtle, elephant, bunny, duck, giraffe, and snail, accompanied by friendly animal sounds. DESIGNED FOR LITTLE HANDS Multi-Touch Friendly: Young children love tapping with multiple fingers or whole hands. Rockets launch smoothly wherever they touch. No Pressure and No Timers: Children explore at their own pace in a calm, open playground with no fail states or wrong buttons. Smart Clearing Sky: Firework shapes hold long enough to be recognized and spoken, then fade softly into embers as new rockets launch so the screen never feels crowded. Celebration Finales: Finishing any category rewards your learner with an exciting celebratory fireworks display. CALM SENSORY EXPERIENCE Gentle Lullaby Music: Soothing background music makes ABC Fireworks ideal for quiet time, car rides, and bedtime wind-down routines. Tactile Haptics: Feel a gentle rumble on rocket launch and a soft crackle on the burst on supported devices. Spoken Encouragement: Friendly voice narration speaks every word clearly and offers positive encouragement. SAFE AND PARENT APPROVED PayneBrain builds screen experiences that parents can trust: Zero third-party advertisements. Zero data collection, user profiling, or tracking. Fully COPPA compliant. Secure parental gate: Settings and the store are protected behind a grown-up math verification. Offline play: No internet connection required after download. One-time family unlock: No subscriptions. A single in-app purchase unlocks all premium categories permanently. Bring wonder to your child's screen time with ABC Fireworks from PayneBrain.
Timer99
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Timer app that can measure 1 to 999 minutes easily and quickly with only 3 taps. This timer does not have a start button. Just tap the number you want to measure and the timer countdown will start. For example ... -To measure 120 minutes, just press 1,2,0. -To measure 45 minutes, just press 4,5. -Just press 8 to measure 8 minutes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timer99 at none against ABC Fireworks's 1. Timer99 also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 136 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ABC Fireworks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timer99 asks for nothing beyond the download.
ABC Fireworks ships an update every 136 months, Timer99 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABC Fireworks | Timer99 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 136 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carlton Payne III | Takahashi Naoto |
In-app purchases
ABC Fireworks
- Unlock All$2.99
Timer99
No in-app purchases









