Comparison

Portal Timer vs Club Beeper

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Secret information sharing
  • Voting functionality
  • Victory point tracking
  • Advanced version unlock
  • Companion gameplay
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Portal Timer3 screens
Club Beeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Portal Timer versus Club Beeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPortal TimerClub Beeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better12.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.415.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHiroshi NomuraOleksandr Nevskiy

Customer experience

Portal Timer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Club Beeper

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Portal Timer

One-time5
  • Donation(Bronze)$0.99
  • Donation(Silver)$4.99
  • Donation(Gold)$19.99
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  • Donation(Platinum)$59.99
  • Donation(Onyx)$99.99
1 purchases

Club Beeper

One-time1
  • Advanced Game mode$0.99

Questions

Is Portal Timer free?
Portal Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Club Beeper free?
Club Beeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Portal Timer or Club Beeper have ads?
Neither Portal Timer nor Club Beeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Portal Timer or Club Beeper?
Portal Timer ships an update weekly, and Club Beeper every 6 months. Most recently, Portal Timer was updated on October 23, 2026 and Club Beeper on October 12, 2026.

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