Cool Kitchen Timer vs Kitchen Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cool Kitchen Timer
An elegant kitchen timer with animated visuals for easy time tracking during cooking. It offers visual and sound notifications, works in lock mode, and supports durations from seconds to 100 hours. Designed for everyday use, it's user-friendly for all ages.
- Animated time flow
- Visual and sound notifications
- Works in lock/sleep mode
- Wide time duration range
- Counts time past completion
- User-friendly design
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Bright timer for bright cooking. Elegant kitchen timer designed for everyday use that has animated features on the hour, minute and second visual indicators to quickly overlook how much time in minutes is left. You can always glance at the display to check your time without reading the numbers. Features: - Stylish design; - Animated time flow and backgrounds; - Visual and sound notifications; - Ability to fire even in device lock or sleep mode; - Wide range of time duration available—from as couple of seconds to 100 hours; - Counts time past timer completion; - User-friendly — even for kids! This is one kitchen timer you won't want to do without!
Kitchen Timer
This app provides a simple yet multifunctional kitchen timer with customizable alarms and notifications. It offers features like quick start, tenkey time input, and background operation, all for free.
- Quick start functionality
- Tenkey time input
- Customizable alarm sounds and volume
- Vibration and tactile feedback
- Background notifications
- Sleep disabled setting
- Dark mode
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It's a simple & multifunctional kitchen timer app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Quick start - Time input by tenkey - Alarm sound, volume, repeat, automatic stop - Vibration - Background notifications, repeats, intervals - Button tap sound, volume, tactile feedback - Color (background, font) - Sleep disabled setting (timer is running) - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: kitchentimer://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cool Kitchen Timer at none against Kitchen Timer's shown. Cool Kitchen Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Kitchen Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cool Kitchen Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kitchen Timer has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cool Kitchen Timer ships an update every 6 months, Kitchen Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cool Kitchen Timer | Kitchen Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Simkovskyi | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Cool Kitchen Timer
Kitchen Timer
In-app purchases
Cool Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
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