Chef Timer vs Kitchen Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chef Timer
This kitchen companion helps you achieve perfectly cooked dishes by providing simple, precise timers. Set cooking times with a single tap and receive customizable sound alerts when your food is ready, allowing you to focus on other tasks.
- Simple and precise kitchen timer
- Sound alert when time is up
- Quick activation with one tap
- Customizable alert sounds
- Multiple interface styles
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Chef Timer – Your Perfect Kitchen Assistant Chef Timer is the ideal companion for every cook, from beginner to professional. Easily set cooking times to achieve perfect dishes every time, without constantly checking the clock. Just one tap to start the timer and focus on something else — you’ll be alerted with a customizable sound when the time is up. Main Features • Simple and precise kitchen timer • Sound alert when the time is up • Quick activation with a single tap • Choose from different alert sounds • Multiple interface styles available Support & Feedback Have a suggestion or found a bug? Contact us at info@lionsapp.com or visit www.lionsapp.com. If you enjoy Chef Timer, please leave a review on the App Store — your feedback helps us improve!
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 review sentiment: Kitchen Timer at 100% against Chef Timer's 0%. Kitchen Timer also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Chef Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On device support and iOS requirement 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
Kitchen Timer is free to download; Chef Timer costs $1.99 up front. Chef Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kitchen Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chef Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kitchen Timer has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Chef Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kitchen Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chef Timer ships an update every 13 months, Kitchen Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chef Timer | Kitchen Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LionsApp di Nallbati Elton | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Chef Timer
Kitchen Timer
In-app purchases
Chef Timer
- Pro$1.99
Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
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