Cool Kitchen Timer vs Nine Steeps
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!
Nine Steeps
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Nine Steeps is a tea companion for brewing, tasting, and keeping a small cellar. Build timed steeping sessions, record infusion notes, rate aroma, body, and finish, save teas, export and import tea files, and use Apple Watch and Live Activities during a session. Full Access is a one-time non-consumable in-app purchase with Apple StoreKit purchase and restore.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cool Kitchen Timer at none against Nine Steeps's 3. Cool Kitchen Timer also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 18.0). Nine Steeps's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 months). 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. Nine Steeps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Cool Kitchen Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cool Kitchen Timer ships an update every 6 months, Nine Steeps every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cool Kitchen Timer | Nine Steeps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Simkovskyi | Rizk Corsight, LLC |
In-app purchases
Cool Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
Nine Steeps
- 3-Day TrialFree
- Nine Steeps Full Access$1.99
- Nine Steeps Pro$1.99
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