Comparison

Meeting Cost Timers vs Microsoft Loop

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

Head to head
About

Meeting Cost Timers

This app tracks meeting duration, total person-hours, and estimated costs based on attendee hourly rates. It helps visualize meeting expenses to encourage efficiency and save time and money. Features include configurable rates, attendee management, and reporting.

Highlights
  • Configurable hourly rates
  • Add/remove attendees during meetings
  • Pause and restart timer
  • Meeting templates
  • Siri shortcut support
  • Backup and restore data
  • Generate meeting reports
Features
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How much time and money is being spent in meetings? Meeting Cost Timers displays the meeting duration, total person hours, and total cost (based on the hourly rates for attendees). Visualizing this information can help focus meetings to save time and money. • Configurable hourly rates for roles and individuals (using your local or custom currency). • Add or remove attendees during the meeting. Person time and cost calculations are adjusted accordingly. • Pause and restart the timer for those really long meetings that require breaks. • Use meeting templates to quickly configure the attendees for recurring meetings. • Meeting templates appear in iOS search results. Tap a result to automatically launch the app and change the current attendees. • Siri shortcut support for copying attendees from meeting templates (requires iOS 12). • Manage shortcuts in the app's Settings screen, the Shortcuts app on iOS 13, or in the Siri & Search section of Apple's Settings app. • Back up your currency, hourly rates, meeting templates and current meeting configuration to iCloud Drive, Dropbox etc. for safekeeping or to copy between your devices. • Change icon currency symbol. • Inverted colour scheme is great for projecting onto the wall. • Generate a report of the meeting's current elapsed time, cost and attendees. • External display support showing a custom screen-filling view of the timer. • VoiceOver support for the visually impaired. • Dark appearance support (requires iOS 13). • iPad multitasking. Meeting Cost Timers is available for iOS and Mac. It is free to download and use with some restrictions. A single in-app purchase unlocks all features on both platforms: • Back up and restore your data. • Unlimited number of attendees. • Unlimited number of hourly rates. • Unlimited number of meeting templates. • Change icon currency symbol (iOS only). For more information see https://hacknicity.com/meetingcosttimers or email me at support@hacknicity.com

About

Microsoft Loop

This app facilitates collaborative thinking, planning, and creation across devices. It brings together teams, content, and tasks, allowing users to capture ideas, manage projects, and communicate in real-time. Seamlessly integrate with existing tools for a unified workflow.

Highlights
  • Co-creation experience
  • Content and task management
  • Idea capture and task lists
  • Project workspace
  • Real-time commenting and reactions
  • Customizable notifications
  • Cross-Microsoft 365 component editing
Features
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Think, plan and create together with Loop on the go. Microsoft Loop is a transformative co-creation experience that brings together teams, content and tasks across your tools and devices. Designed for the way you work, Loop can help you think, plan, and create together. • Capture ideas, create task lists, and insert photos to your Loop pages to express your thoughts. • Bring all your project content into a Loop workspace to help your team focus on what matters. • Comment and react in the app to quickly collaborate on the go. • Get only the notifications you care about and jump right back into what needs the most attention. • Edit and share Loop components across Microsoft 365 to help your team be on the same page in one place. To get started, download Loop, and sign in with your Microsoft Account or the account assigned to you by your work or school. This app is provided by either Microsoft or a third-party app publisher and is subject to a separate privacy statement and terms and conditions. Data provided through the use of this store and this app may be accessible to Microsoft or the third-party app publisher, as applicable, and transferred to, stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or the app publisher and their affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. Please refer to the End User License Terms for Microsoft Loop. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions. Privacy terms: https://aka.ms/privacy Please refer to the Microsoft Software License Terms, see “License Agreement” under Information. By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions.

Screenshots

Meeting Cost Timers4 screens
Microsoft Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

Meeting Cost Timers and Microsoft Loop both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Meeting Cost Timers's written reviews are positive against 22% of Microsoft Loop's. Meeting Cost Timers also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Microsoft Loop's advantage is ratings volume (5.1K vs 9). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

Both are free to download. Meeting Cost Timers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Microsoft Loop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Microsoft Loop holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Loop has 5.1K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Meeting Cost Timers's written reviews are positive against 22% of Microsoft Loop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meeting Cost Timers ships an update every 6 weeks, Microsoft Loop monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Meeting Cost Timers versus Microsoft Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting Cost TimersMicrosoft Loop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (9 ratings)4.6 (5.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better21.6% of reviews
Number of ratings95.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB167 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeoff HackworthMicrosoft Corporation

Customer experience

Meeting Cost Timers

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Microsoft Loop

All ratings5,072 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews245 reviews
Positive21.6%
Neutral16.3%
Negative62.0%

Bugs and requests

Meeting Cost Timers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Microsoft Loop

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes on certain workspaces
  • Inability to save new content
  • Formatting issues with code blocks
  • Keyboard issues and cursor jumping
  • Inconsistent theme and UI behavior

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to duplicate pages
  • Improved handwriting and whiteboard support
  • Export/copy to Word or PDF
  • Offline functionality
  • Better access management and guest collaboration

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meeting Cost Timers

One-time1
  • Unlock all Features$2.99
4 purchases

Microsoft Loop

Subscriptions4
  • Microsoft 365 Personal$9.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Family$12.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal$99.991 Year
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  • Microsoft 365 Family$129.991 Year

Questions

Is Meeting Cost Timers free?
Meeting Cost Timers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Microsoft Loop free?
Microsoft Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meeting Cost Timers or Microsoft Loop?
Microsoft Loop is rated higher. Meeting Cost Timers averages 4.4 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Microsoft Loop averages 4.6 from 5.1K ratings.
Do Meeting Cost Timers or Microsoft Loop have ads?
Neither Meeting Cost Timers nor Microsoft Loop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meeting Cost Timers or Microsoft Loop?
Meeting Cost Timers ships an update every 6 weeks, and Microsoft Loop monthly. Most recently, Meeting Cost Timers was updated on October 24, 2026 and Microsoft Loop on October 29, 2026.

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