Portal Timer vs Club Beeper
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.
Club Beeper
This companion app facilitates secret information sharing for the board game Detective Club. It allows players to pass secret words, vote, and track scores, enhancing the gameplay experience. An advanced version with additional features can be unlocked via a single in-app purchase.
- Secret information sharing
- Voting functionality
- Victory point tracking
- Advanced version unlock
- Companion gameplay
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This official app will help you and your friends quickly and conveniently share secret information while playing the board game Detective Club. ATTENTION! This application is not enough to play the board game Detective Club. This is not an independent game. To play Detective Club, you will need a retail copy of the board game. The advanced version allows you to pass a secret word, to vote, and to score victory points with the help of the app. So in this case, you need only cards and players' boards for playing. In order to get the advanced version of the app, you have to buy it. You can do it from the basic version. If you want to play with the advanced version, only one player has to buy it. All others will join a game created by one person in the advanced version via their basic versions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Portal Timer at 100% against Club Beeper's 13%. Portal Timer also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). Club Beeper's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.3 vs 17.4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Portal Timer sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Club Beeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Portal Timer ships an update weekly, Club Beeper every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Portal Timer | Club Beeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hiroshi Nomura | Oleksandr Nevskiy |
Customer experience
Portal Timer
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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
Club Beeper
- Advanced Game mode$0.99
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