First15 vs YardTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
First15
This daily devotional app offers a 15-minute spiritual practice to help users connect with God. It aims to foster a deeper understanding of God's love and presence, influencing daily emotions, thoughts, and actions.
- Daily devotional content
- Spiritual connection with God
- Focus on God's love and presence
- Personal growth and empowerment
- Foundation for daily thoughts and actions
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We all have a need to know our Creator. We all have a longing to be fully known and fully loved by an all-knowing, all-loving God. First15, a resource of Denison Ministries, is a daily devotional written out of the belief that 15 minutes with God can change your life. God longs to fill you by his refreshing, life-giving presence. He longs to meet you in the first moments of your day that your emotions, thoughts, beliefs and actions would be founded on his unconditional love. Give God 15 minutes today and let him love you, empower you, heal you, free you and establish you in the reality of his nearness.
YardTime
Coordinate with neighbors to manage when dogs are in the yard. Avoid conflicts with a shared real-time status, automated timers, and instant notifications for yard availability.
- One-tap yard status updates
- Automated timers for yard usage
- Real-time yard clear notifications
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Live Activity countdown
- Siri and Action Button integration
- Neighborly conflict avoidance
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YardTime keeps neighboring dogs from meeting at the fence. If your dog and the dog next door bark up a storm whenever they're both out back, YardTime gives you a shared, real-time yard status so you can take turns — no more changing a group-chat photo to "dog" and hoping everyone notices. One tap tells your neighbors the yard is taken. A timer frees it up automatically. And the moment it's clear, everyone gets a heads-up. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • One-tap status — "Let Rex out," and your neighbors know instantly. • Timers that check in — pick 15, 30, or 60 minutes (or open-ended). When time's up you get a nudge to extend or bring them in, and the yard frees itself if you've moved on. No more forgetting to flip it back. • "Yard is clear" alerts — get notified the second it's your turn, and let your dogs out with one tap right from the alert. • At-a-glance widgets — home screen and lock screen show clear or occupied without opening the app. • Live Activity — a countdown on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while your dog is out. • A shared recent-activity feed — who let dogs out and when the yard cleared, the same on every phone in the group. • Hands-free — say "Hey Siri, let the dog out," or map it to the Action Button, for when you've already got a dog by the collar. • A heads-up before your dog goes out on top of a neighbor's — in the app, from Siri or an NFC tag, on the widget, on your watch. Nobody's dogs meet at the fence by accident. SET UP IN UNDER TWO MINUTES Create a group, share one invite link, and your neighbors are in. No sign-ups, no passwords — it's tied to your iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your yard status lives in your own iCloud and is shared only with your group. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold. Ever. Built for a few households on a quiet street — not the whole internet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: YardTime at every 3 days against First15's every 6 weeks. YardTime also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). First15's advantage is ratings volume (459 vs 2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
YardTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: First15 has 459 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of First15's written reviews are positive against 100% of YardTime's.
First15 ships an update every 6 weeks, YardTime every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First15 | YardTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (459 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 459 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Denison Ministries (Apps) | PATRICK FRISCHMANN |
Customer experience
First15
YardTime
Bugs and requests
First15
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes/won't open
- Bookmark/save functionality issues
- Compatibility problems (e.g., iPad)
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to share devotions
- Community features (comments, groups)
- Customizable text size
- Offline access
YardTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
First15
No in-app purchases
YardTime
No in-app purchases









