Portal Timer vs Sauce+
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.
Sauce+
Access exclusive original content, recordings from live events, and full video catalogs from your favorite creators. This ad-free platform is built by creators for creators and their fans.
- Ad-free viewing experience
- Exclusive original content
- Live event recordings
- Full creator video catalogs
- Creator-focused platform
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Welcome to Sauce Plus! Sauce Plus gives you an ad-free, front-row seat to the content you already love and so much more. Enjoy exclusive originals, recordings from Open Sauce Live, and full video catalogs from your favorite creators. Sauce + was built by creators.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Portal Timer at 100% against Sauce+'s 55%. Portal Timer also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Sauce+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Sauce+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Portal Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sauce+ has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Portal Timer's written reviews are positive against 55% of Sauce+'s.
Portal Timer ships an update weekly, Sauce+ fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Portal Timer | Sauce+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.8 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hiroshi Nomura | Floatplane Media Inc. |
Customer experience
Portal Timer
Sauce+
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
Sauce+
No in-app purchases
