Comparison

TIMER vs AgePony

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

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About

TIMER

This app helps you track time spent on various work activities and projects. It offers detailed analytics, customizable categories, and smart rounding for billing. Generate professional PDF reports and monitor your progress towards monthly goals.

Highlights
  • One-tap timer
  • Customizable time categories
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Smart time rounding
  • Dynamic Island integration
  • Monthly goals and progress tracking
  • Exportable PDF reports
Features
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TIMER is a versatile work timer and task tracking app designed for anyone who needs to track time across any type of work or activity. Whether you are tracking project hours, timing tasks, managing daily work, or just need a reliable timer, TIMER adapts to your workflow. v4.1 UPDATE - BETTER FOR ALL YOUR WORK Bug fixes and improvements make TIMER even more reliable for tracking any kind of work item or task. Smoother performance, better stability, and a more refined experience across the board. TRACK ANY KIND OF WORK From freelance projects and client work to personal tasks and daily routines - TIMER handles it all. Start the timer with one tap, categorize your time, and let the app do the rest. ADVANCED ANALYTICS DASHBOARD Get deep insights into how you spend your time with 11 powerful chart types: - Pie chart showing time distribution across categories - Heatmap visualizing your daily work intensity - Trend line tracking your hours over time - Goal prediction estimating when you will reach your monthly target - Hourly distribution showing when you work most - Weekday comparison revealing your productive days - Duration distribution analyzing your session lengths - Type-by-hour breakdown for time-of-day patterns - Type-by-weekday analysis for weekly rhythms - Monthly comparison chart for long-term trends - Average statistics with daily, weekly, and workday averages CUSTOMIZABLE TIME CATEGORIES Create up to 11 custom categories with your own names and colors. Perfect for tracking multiple projects, clients, or work types. Each category gets its own color-coded visualization. SMART ROUNDING FEATURE Automatically round your tracked time to the nearest 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes. Toggle between actual and rounded time with a single tap. Ideal for billing clients. DYNAMIC ISLAND INTEGRATION See your elapsed time in real-time on the Dynamic Island while tracking. No need to open the app to check. MONTHLY GOALS AND NOTES Set monthly hour targets and track your progress. Add monthly notes to document achievements. Your data persists across months. SECURE AND PRIVATE Lock TIMER with Face ID or Touch ID. Your time records are stored locally on your device and never shared. EXPORT PROFESSIONAL PDF REPORTS Generate beautiful PDF reports with all your analytics charts. Perfect for invoicing clients, tax preparation, or personal record keeping. KEY FEATURES AT A GLANCE: - One-tap timer with beautiful v4.0 interface - 11 customizable time categories with custom colors - Advanced analytics with 11 different chart types - Smart time rounding for standard billing increments - Dynamic Island support for real-time tracking - Monthly goals with progress tracking and predictions - Face ID / Touch ID security - Professional PDF report generation - Monthly notes for documentation - Local storage - your data stays on your device - Works offline with no account required TIMER is the perfect companion for tracking your time, no matter what you do. Download now and take control of your time.

About

AgePony

Securely encrypt, sign, and manage files using advanced post-quantum cryptography. Protect your data with robust encryption methods, verify file authenticity, and keep sensitive information private on your device without relying on servers or accounts.

Highlights
  • Post-quantum encryption (ML-KEM-768)
  • File signing and verification
  • Encrypt to various recipients
  • Support for any file size
  • Passphrase-locked notes
  • Biometric and PIN app lock
  • Local-first, zero-backend design
Features
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Modern file encryption and signing for iPhone, built on the age protocol. Encrypt anything to anyone, sign files so others can verify they came from you, and keep every byte on your device. No accounts, no servers, no key-management headaches. POST-QUANTUM Hybrid ML-KEM-768 + X25519 recipients, so a file captured today stays private even if X25519 falls to a quantum computer years from now. Interoperable with the age CLI 1.3 and newer. Files already on a classical key? The re-encrypt tool moves them across. ANY SIZE Encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify files of any size. Nothing is held in memory, so a 1 GB video behaves like a text file. ENCRYPT TO ANYONE A GitHub username. AgePony fetches their published SSH keys Any age public key, classical (X25519) or post-quantum A YubiKey, through age-plugin-yubikey recipients (age1yubikey1...) Any SSH public key (ed25519 or RSA) A passphrase, when you don't need recipient keys at all Exchange keys in person without typing: show yours as a QR code, or scan theirs. SIGN FILES Prove a file came from you and hasn't been altered. Sign on its own for a detached signature anyone can check without AgePony, or sign and encrypt in one step so the signature is sealed inside the ciphertext. Signatures verify automatically as a file decrypts. An in-app SSH key (ed25519 or RSA) A Secure Enclave key, generated in hardware and never exportable An external security key over NFC: tap a YubiKey or Token2, including keys behind a FIDO PIN Standard SSHSIG (ssh-keygen -Y sign), verifiable anywhere OpenSSH runs BUILT ON AGE A clean-room implementation of the age v1 format, the modern alternative to PGP: X25519 key agreement, ChaCha20-Poly1305, scrypt for passphrases. Bit-perfect with the reference age CLI. Encrypt on your phone, decrypt on your laptop, and back again. ENCRYPTED NOTES Passphrase-locked notes for secrets that never leave your device: recovery phrases, API keys, credentials. Each note has its own passphrase, stretched through scrypt. Forget it and the body is gone for good. That is the point. LOCK IT DOWN Unlock with Face ID or Touch ID, or set an app password or PIN, with or without biometrics. Choose how long AgePony waits before it locks. An optional duress password looks exactly like a normal unlock but silently wipes the vault, for the moment you are made to open the app. Delete an identity by mistake and Recently Deleted holds it for 30 days. EVERY KIND OF DATA Files: encrypt anything from the Files app Several at once: one archive, or one file each Text: armored age blocks for paste-into-email use Keys: share yours as a QR code, or scan someone else's Inspect: see what any age file is encrypted to, without decrypting it LOCAL-FIRST, ZERO BACKEND No accounts. No cloud. No telemetry. No analytics. No ads. No third-party SDKs. Your vault stays on your device, encrypted at rest with a master key in the iOS Keychain, unlocked by Face ID, Touch ID, or an app password you set. The only network request AgePony ever makes is fetching a GitHub user's public keys, when you ask, and you can route even that through an HTTP proxy. OPEN SOURCE Apache 2.0. Every line at github.com/norsehorse-dev/AgePonyiOS. COMPATIBILITY Any age v1 implementation (FiloSottile/age, str4d/rage, and more) Post-quantum recipients need age CLI 1.3 or newer YubiKey recipients through age-plugin-yubikey SSH-ed25519 and SSH-RSA public keys Binary and PEM-armored age files Detached signatures verify with ssh-keygen -Y verify Requires iPhone with iOS 18.6 or later PRIVACY AgePony collects nothing and there is no server. Your data never leaves your device unless you export it. Policy: agepony.com/privacy. SUPPORT Docs, FAQ, and contact: agepony.com/support. Email: NorseHorse@norsehor.se Built quietly in Alabama by NorseHorse. Sibling to PGPony, the same idea for OpenPGP keys.

Screenshots

TIMER4 screens
AgePony4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AgePony at Free against TIMER's $6.99. AgePony also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). TIMER's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

AgePony is free to download; TIMER costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TIMER holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TIMER ships an update every 2 months, AgePony every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TIMER versus AgePony: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTIMERAgePony
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.618.6
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHI HAO CHIUKevin Stewart

Customer experience

TIMER

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

AgePony

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TIMER

No in-app purchases

None

AgePony

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TIMER free?
TIMER costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AgePony free?
AgePony is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TIMER or AgePony?
TIMER is rated higher. TIMER averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while AgePony averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do TIMER or AgePony have ads?
Neither TIMER nor AgePony shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TIMER or AgePony?
TIMER ships an update every 2 months, and AgePony every 3 weeks. Most recently, TIMER was updated on September 20, 2026 and AgePony on August 27, 2026.

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