Game Turn Timer vs Chess Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Game Turn Timer
This app helps you manage turn-based games by setting time limits for each player's move. It provides on-screen alerts and optional voice announcements to keep the game fair and engaging. You can customize alert settings and choose to remove ads with an in-app purchase.
- Set turn time limits (60, 90, 120 seconds)
- Start/Restart timer per player
- Pause/Time Out functionality
- On-screen alerts for time remaining
- Optional voiced announcements
- Discreet vibration alerts
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Love playing Scrabble, Chess, or your favourite board game, with friends and family? Why not make things interesting by imposing a time limit, per turn/move ? With Game Turn Timer, things are easy. - Set the turn time limit at 60, 90 or 120 seconds. - Start / Restart when each player starts their move/turn/shot. - Time Out / Pause the turn, if necessary. - On screen alerts as "30 Seconds Remain", "10 Seconds Remain" and "TIME UP" on reaching the time limit. - Turn Alerts on or off. - Turn on discreet "vibrate" on alert. - Turn on voiced / spoken announcements. - Turn on Animation during play. "Game Turn Timer" is supported by Interstitial Ads, which load when you click "Stop" on the timer. Optionally, an In-App Purchase can be made to remove the advertisements permanently. -- A special request from the developer... If you like the app, please share the app, or leave a review in the App Store, to help other people find out about the app. You can perform either of these actions from the "About" screen in the app.
Chess Clock
This app provides an accurate chess game timer with customizable controls and low-time warnings. It also functions as a self-filling scoresheet, recording game details and player statistics. Additionally, it offers features for organizing chess clubs, finding nearby opponents, and managing game data securely.
- Customizable chess clock presets
- Fischer increment and US/Bronstein delay
- Self-filling game scoresheet
- Player win/loss/draw statistics
- Club creation and management
- Nearby player finding
- Encrypted data backups
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Chess Clock times your games and records each result for you, like a paper scoresheet. Chess groups can run their club in it too. A serious clock • Presets from bullet to classical, plus your last three controls one tap away • Fischer increment, US delay and Bronstein delay • Tournament stages ("after 40 moves, add 30 minutes") with a live countdown to the next stage • Accurate to the tenth of a second, immune to timer drift • Low-time warnings that scale to the control, with distinct haptics at each handoff, at ten seconds and at five • Clock sounds: a click on each move, ticks at ten seconds and at five, a tone when a flag falls. They play on silent; the speaker button turns them off • Big mirrored display, portrait and landscape; the waiting side dims so you know whose move it is • Two layouts: Face to face, or Side of the board, with both times facing one edge for a phone lying beside the board • Pause, then lock the phone: both times stay on the Lock Screen. Quit the app and the game is still paused when you come back An automatic scoresheet • Enter names once. The app records every finished game with result, control, move count and how it ended • Win / loss / draw totals per player, head-to-head for every rivalry • Tap any game for its move-time timeline: how long each move took, both sides. It marks the longest think and the sharpest time-trouble stretch Clubs, for real-world chess groups • Create a club, publish it, and let members find it by name or by scanning its QR code • A results table with continuous Elo ratings that the app updates as members play • Club nights with RSVP, a looking-for-a-game signal, and a recap you can share as an image • A rated member directory, an activity feed, and moderation tools for owners and admins • Time-odds suggestions when two rated members sit down together Friends and nearby play • Nearby phones find each other when you start a game, so you pick your opponent instead of typing a name • Exchange finished games with a nearby friend, phone to phone, with no internet involved Your data No account to create and no ads. The clock and scoresheet live on your phone. For clubs, the app uses your iCloud sign-in as your identity and stores club data (names, rosters, results) in Apple's iCloud. We run no servers. You can delete your club data from inside the app at any time. Backups Export everything the app holds to one file and keep it wherever you keep your files. Restore it on a new phone, or after a reinstall, and your record comes back. You encrypt each backup with a password you choose; without it, nobody can open the file. Chess Clock Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) • Custom time controls: any base time, increment, delay style and tournament stage • Full match history and the move-time timeline for every game • Head-to-head breakdown of every rivalry • Six premium themes: Tournament, Ocean, Midnight, Blossom, Iris and Coral Chess Clock comes in 43 languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chess Clock at 5.0 against Game Turn Timer's 2.5. Chess Clock also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 22 months). Game Turn Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (7.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Game Turn Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Chess Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Chess Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Game Turn Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess Clock's.
Game Turn Timer ships an update every 22 months, Chess Clock every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Game Turn Timer | Chess Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mike Irving | Adam Saleh |
Customer experience
Game Turn Timer
Chess Clock
In-app purchases
Game Turn Timer
- Go Ad Free$0.99
Chess Clock
- Chess Clock Pro$3.99
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