Comparison

Timer vs New Time bar

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

Head to head
About

Timer

This minimalistic timer app offers intuitive progress visualization and interval timing. Customize display options, enable repeat mode, and receive optional notification sounds for enhanced usability.

Highlights
  • Intuitive progress visualization
  • Interval timer functionality
  • Pause and resume timer
  • Display remaining time, percentage, or progress bar
  • Optional repeat mode
  • Optional notification sound
Features
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A small and easy to use timer app that displays the timer's progress in an intuitive and minimalistic way and which can be used as an interval timer. – Pause & Resume – Switch between showing remaining time, percentage of elapsed time or just the progress bar – Optional repeat mode – Optional notification sound

About

New Time bar

Easily manage your events with customizable time bars. Track past and future durations for occasional or recurring activities. A full-screen view keeps important events in sight.

Highlights
  • Customizable event time bars
  • Occasional and repeatable events
  • Automatic time bar scheduling
  • Full-screen event view
  • Duration rebalancing
Features
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New Time bar is the perfect application to manage your events, check how much time has passed and how much is left. -Each event has its own time bar, which can be customized as you wish, with different colors and styles, in order to mark your activities in a different way. -Events can be occasional or repeatable: in fact, you won't need to manually start your time bars, because you can just enter the starting time, the end time, the desired days of the week and the time bar will run automatically! - An easy full screen view is also available, so you can constantly keep an eye on an important event. -If it seems that a time bar is scrolling too slowly, it is also possible to rebalance the duration by counting the time already elapsed. Are you carrying out a boring and hard activity? Set a time bar, so you can watch how much time is left at any time. New Time bar is a totally free application: all the major features are immediately available: you will not be asked to pay to unlock anything else!

Screenshots

Timer4 screens
New Time bar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: New Time bar at Free against Timer's $0.99. New Time bar also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 33%). Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

New Time bar is free to download; Timer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timer ships an update every 6 months, New Time bar every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Timer versus New Time bar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimerNew Time bar
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMax-Joseph KremplFabio Giuliani

Customer experience

Timer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral75.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%

New Time bar

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Timer

No in-app purchases

None

New Time bar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timer free?
Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is New Time bar free?
New Time bar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Timer or New Time bar have ads?
New Time bar shows ads; Timer does not.
Which is updated more often, Timer or New Time bar?
Timer ships an update every 6 months, and New Time bar every 3 months. Most recently, Timer was updated on October 6, 2026 and New Time bar on September 29, 2026.

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