Comparison

Chef Timer vs Kitchen Timer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Simple and precise kitchen timer
  • Sound alert when time is up
  • Quick activation with one tap
  • Customizable alert sounds
  • Multiple interface styles
Features
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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!

About

Kitchen Timer

Features
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Cooking three things at once while the oven clock tracks only one? KitchenTime is a kitchen timer built for real cooking: pasta, rice, tea and eggs counting down side by side, each with its own loud alarm. Most timer apps hand you a single countdown. KitchenTime hands you a board: up to 12 timers running at the same time, each with its own name, a big readable countdown and an alert that fires even when your phone is locked or the app is closed. WHAT YOU GET • Dinner where the pasta, the sauce and the roast veg all land together — up to 12 timers running side by side • A soft egg at exactly 6:00 from one tap — 10 kitchen presets covering pasta, rice, eggs, tea, steak rest and proofing dough • Your own “Roast chicken — 45 min” saved once, started in one tap every week after • An alarm that still rings with the screen off, the app closed, or even after your phone restarts • Start all and Pause all for the moment everything hits the stove at once • Countdown digits big enough to read from across the kitchen with wet hands PERFECT FOR • Home cooks juggling three pots and an oven • Parents lining up dinner, homework and bath time • Tea and coffee drinkers steeping more than one cup • Meal preppers batch-cooking a whole Sunday afternoon WHY NOT JUST THE CLOCK APP? The built-in timer runs one countdown and calls it “Timer”. When the rice, the eggs and the tea all need watching, one nameless countdown is how dinner burns. KitchenTime names every timer, runs them all at once, and tells you exactly which one just finished. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your timers and presets live on your phone and nowhere else. FULL ACCESS KitchenTime requires a Full Access purchase: an auto-renewing weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Full Access opens the entire app — up to 12 simultaneous timers, all 10 kitchen presets, custom timers up to 3 hours, and your own saved presets. Put a name and a countdown on everything you cook — get KitchenTime and run your first full board tonight. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia

Screenshots

Chef Timer4 screens
Kitchen Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Kitchen Timer at Free against Chef Timer's $1.99. Kitchen Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 13 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chef Timer ships an update every 13 months, Kitchen Timer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chef Timer versus Kitchen Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChef TimerKitchen Timer
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLionsApp di Nallbati EltonLEAN ASIA CO., LTD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chef Timer

One-time1
  • Pro$1.99
None

Kitchen Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chef Timer free?
Chef Timer costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Kitchen Timer free?
Kitchen Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chef Timer or Kitchen Timer have ads?
Neither Chef Timer nor Kitchen Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chef Timer or Kitchen Timer?
Chef Timer ships an update every 13 months, and Kitchen Timer every 4 months. Most recently, Chef Timer was updated on October 11, 2026 and Kitchen Timer on October 7, 2026.

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