Portal Timer vs Anemoia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Portal Timer
This app helps Ingress players manage portal cooldowns with multiple timers, mod calculations, and custom notifications. It offers features like automatic Ingress launching and burn-out timer calculations. Supports widgets and faction-specific time differences.
- Multiple portal cooldown timers
- Automatic mod rarity calculation
- Customizable notifications
- Automatic Ingress launch
- BurnOut Timer with hack count tracking
- Widget support
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PortalTimer is a companion timer for Ingress agents. Put one panel per hacked portal and count three things at once: the time until you can hack again, the hacks you have left, and the four-hour burn-out. Features - One panel per portal: name, faction and four mod slots - Cooldown: 5 minutes on enemy portals / 3 on friendly ones, shortened by the rarity of your Heat Sinks - Hack count: 4 plus your Multi-hacks; the counter turns to the warning colour past 3/4 of the limit - Burn-out: after the cooldown of the hack that reached the limit, the panel becomes a four-hour bar (auto-start is a setting) - Sojourner (23 h 30 min), Virus and Drone (1 h each) timers - Local notifications and haptics when a timer ends - Home Screen (small, medium) and Lock Screen widgets; start and stop timers from the widget - Two looks: eXotic (Ingress Prime style hex badge) and Circle (ring) - Portal panels live in your iCloud and follow you to your other iPhones No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Donations are optional in-app purchases that unlock nothing. PortalTimer is an unofficial app, unrelated to Niantic, and never connects to the game.
Anemoia
Explore historical photographs of New York City from the New York Public Library's Digital Collections. Discover past scenes at over 2,500 locations and compare them with current Google Street View images.
- Historical NYC photographs
- Explore 2,500+ locations
- Compare with Google Street View
- New York Public Library collections
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- Explore historical photographs of New York City taken from the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library. - Discover what was once at over 2,500 locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx. - Compare photographs with Google Street View images of the same location today. Anemoia: (n) nostalgia for a time you've never known. ~ John Koenig
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Anemoia at 4.7 against Portal Timer's 4.0. Anemoia also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (216 vs 2). Portal Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Portal Timer sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Anemoia asks for nothing beyond the download.
Anemoia holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anemoia has 216 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Portal Timer's written reviews are positive against 92% of Anemoia's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Portal Timer ships an update weekly, Anemoia every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Portal Timer | Anemoia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (216 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 216 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroshi Nomura | John Allman |
Customer experience
Portal Timer
Anemoia
In-app purchases
Portal Timer
- Donation(Bronze)$0.99
- Donation(Silver)$4.99
- Donation(Gold)$19.99
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- Donation(Platinum)$59.99
- Donation(Onyx)$99.99
Anemoia
No in-app purchases









