Comparison

Productivity Timer vs Simple Refresh for Safari

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Productivity Timer

Easily track your work hours with a simple start and stop button. This utility app aggregates your time segments into a clear table, allowing you to view and manage your logged periods.

Highlights
  • Start and stop timer with a single button
  • Automatic time segment aggregation
  • View logged time segments in a table
  • Remove individual time entries
  • Simple and easy to use interface
Features
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This is a simple app to track your hours worked. There are several apps that do some version of this, but I couldn't find one that kept it as simple as this one. Simply press the button to start the time. Press it again to stop. The app will add all the time segments together to give you a total and also keep track of them for you in a table that you can view and remove times from.

About

Simple Refresh for Safari

Automate webpage refreshing in Safari across iOS and macOS. Set custom intervals from 1 second to 10 minutes for individual tabs. Monitor live updates without manual intervention.

Highlights
  • Automatic page refresh
  • Customizable refresh intervals
  • Independent settings per tab
  • Live countdown timer
  • Efficient battery usage
  • Persists settings across sessions
Features
Currently charting
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Simple Refresh brings automatic webpage refresh functionality to Safari on iOS and macOS. Stop manually refreshing pages—let Simple Refresh do it for you. With an intuitive slider interface or direct input, set your preferred refresh interval from 1 second to 10 minutes and let the extension handle the rest. Each Safari tab maintains its own refresh settings, so you can monitor multiple pages simultaneously with different refresh rates. Key Features: - Automatic page refresh at customizable intervals (1s, 5s, 15s, 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, or any custom interval between 1s and 10m) - Live countdown timer shows time remaining until next refresh - Slider control or click-to-edit display for flexible input - Independent refresh settings for each tab - Visual "On" badge shows active refresh status - Settings persist across browser sessions - Efficient battery usage with smart refresh engine - Available in 27 languages - Works on both iPhone, iPad, and Mac Perfect for: - Monitoring live scores, stock tickers, and weather updates - Watching for content changes without manual refreshing - Development and testing workflows - Any webpage that updates frequently Simple Refresh focuses on doing one thing well: refreshing webpages automatically. No complex setup, no unnecessary features—just reliable, automatic refresh when you need it.

Screenshots

Productivity Timer4 screens
Simple Refresh for Safari3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Productivity Timer at 5.0 against Simple Refresh for Safari's 3.5. Productivity Timer also leads on price ($0.99 vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Simple Refresh for Safari's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Productivity Timer costs $0.99 and Simple Refresh for Safari $1.99 up front. Productivity Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Refresh for Safari asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Productivity Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Refresh for Safari has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Productivity Timer ships an update every 9 months, Simple Refresh for Safari every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Productivity Timer versus Simple Refresh for Safari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProductivity TimerSimple Refresh for Safari
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.5 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews—52.3% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#99 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDucky Planet LLCWilliam Walker

Customer experience

Productivity Timer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Simple Refresh for Safari

All ratings24 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive52.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative39.8%

Bugs and requests

Productivity Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Simple Refresh for Safari

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Latest update breaks functionality on iPad
  • Start button unresponsive after update
  • Extension stops working after a few hours
  • Extension stops working on iOS 17
  • Extension stops working after Safari updates
Show 12 more
  • Extension turns itself off randomly
  • Extension stops remembering scroll position
  • Extension automatically disables after first refresh
  • Extension resets to 60-second interval after disabling
  • Extension not working on M1 Mac with Safari 15
  • Extension disconnects when changing tabs
  • Extension stops working after OS reinstall
  • Extension not compatible with Safari 14 (initially)
  • Auto-refresh sometimes stops working
  • Extension disappears from Safari extension list
  • Extension logs user out of OWA
  • Extension not working on Big Sur

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add countdown timer display
  • Allow typing custom interval
  • Longer timer duration (up to 30 mins)
  • Keyboard shortcut to start/stop
  • Toggle to disable refresh when tab focused
Show 10 more
  • Beep when change is noted
  • Clear tab cache on reload
  • Refresh by URL instead of tab
  • Countdown tracker for next refresh
  • Option for 3-second intervals
  • Utilize on multiple windows simultaneously
  • Remember settings after Safari restart
  • Sound alert for page changes
  • Ability to set different timers for different tabs
  • Remember scroll position after refresh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Productivity Timer

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
None

Simple Refresh for Safari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Productivity Timer free?
Productivity Timer costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Simple Refresh for Safari free?
Simple Refresh for Safari costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Productivity Timer or Simple Refresh for Safari?
Productivity Timer is rated higher. Productivity Timer averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Simple Refresh for Safari averages 3.5 from 24 ratings.
Do Productivity Timer or Simple Refresh for Safari have ads?
Neither Productivity Timer nor Simple Refresh for Safari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Productivity Timer or Simple Refresh for Safari?
Productivity Timer ships an update every 9 months, and Simple Refresh for Safari every 6 weeks. Most recently, Productivity Timer was updated on October 6, 2026 and Simple Refresh for Safari on October 19, 2026.

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