Board Game Timer vs Viticulture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Board Game Timer
This app helps keep board games moving by timing players. It offers countdown, count-up, and time-per-turn modes for up to eight players. Customize player names and pawns to match your game, and use the built-in dice to select a starting player.
- Multiple timing modes (count up, count down, time per turn)
- Supports up to 8 players
- Customizable player names and pawns
- Integrated dice for random player selection
- Official timer for German Board Game Championship
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When heavy thinking stalls your board game, let Board Game Timer call out those snail's pacing players and give them a friendly nudge. Keeps track of up to 8 players in 3 modes: Count up - simply count up each player's time, no stress! - or - Count down - set a time limit for each player - or - Time per turn - set a maximum time per turn. Customize, name and rearrange your pawns to match your board game setup. And it has a dice to pick a random starting player too! Official timer for the German Board Game Championship for Teams: https://www.dmmib.de/
Viticulture
Manage a vineyard in pre-modern Tuscany, allocating workers and visitors to tasks across seasons. Expand your estate, plant vines, and fulfill wine orders to become the top winery owner. Enjoy single-player or multiplayer modes with global competition.
- Worker and visitor allocation
- Seasonal tasks
- Vineyard expansion
- Wine order fulfillment
- Single-player vs AI
- Online multiplayer
- Asynchronous gameplay
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You find yourself in rustic, pre-modern Tuscany, where you’ve inherited a meager vineyard. You own a few plots of land, an old crush pad, a tiny cellar, 3 workers…and the dream of owning the best winery in Italy. Your job is to allocate your workers and helpful visitors to complete various tasks throughout the year. Each season is different on a vineyard, so the workers have different tasks they can take care of in the summer and winter. There’s competition over those tasks, and often the first worker to arrive at each one has an advantage over the rest. Using those workers and visitors, you can expand your vineyard by building structures, planting vines, and filling wine orders as you work towards the goal of owning the most successful winery in Tuscany. Features: • 1 to 6 players • Family friendly – non violent theme • Cross Platform • Easy tutorial to learn the game from scratch. • Single-player mode with 3 challenging levels of computer opponents. • Multiplayer games against your friends in friendly games. • Face players from all over the world in ranked multiplayer games online! • Worlwide leaderboard • Take your time in asynchronous game mode with push notifications and never miss a turn. • Analyze your best games or learn tricks from the best with playback • Uses the newest rules of the board game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Board Game Timer at Free against Viticulture's $8.99. Board Game Timer also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (85% vs 55%). Viticulture's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and chart position (#99 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Board Game Timer is free to download; Viticulture costs $8.99 up front. Board Game Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Viticulture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Board Game Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Viticulture has 93 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Board Game Timer's written reviews are positive against 55% of Viticulture's.
Board Game Timer ships an update every 13 months, Viticulture every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Board Game Timer | Viticulture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (18 ratings) — better | 3.7 (93 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.2% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 93 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #99 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 322 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sublab Games ApS | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Board Game Timer
Viticulture
Bugs and requests
Board Game Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Viticulture
Reported bugs
20 issues- Game crashes on startup or during gameplay
- Unable to plant grapes despite having buildings
- Special workers cannot be selected at correct times
- Merchant worker action not functioning
- Game hangs when multiple human players with AI
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- AI gets stuck and requires force quit to progress
- Blank tableau display
- Missing windmill points for summer actions
- Visitor cards appearing back-to-back duplicates
- Motivator card not allowing all players to respond
- Summer volunteer crew card not functioning
- Build button greyed out despite sufficient coins
- Cannot purchase multiple workers in one season
- Game ends abruptly without warning
- Undo function causes game freeze
- Games not syncing across devices
- Main screen cannot find games that side menu shows
- Card selection prompts disappear too quickly
- Unclear when multi-action cards end turn
- Loading screen hangs indefinitely
Requested features
16 requests- Tuscany expansion (now available)
- Moors and Visitors expansion
- Auto-save functionality for crashes
- Improved notification system
- Configurable turn timers for casual play
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- Separate volume controls for music and effects
- Replay button for quick rematches
- Better game history and turn tracking
- Simultaneous action selection (not turn-based)
- Clearer worker placement location labels
- Guided tutorial for UI elements
- Pause functionality for async games
- Undo multiple moves (not just current decision)
- Dark mode option
- Better iPad optimization
- Improved app icon design
In-app purchases
Board Game Timer
- Customization$5.99
Viticulture
- Tuscany Essential Edition$8.99
Questions
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