Comparison

Smart Timetable vs Eureka! Timer

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

Head to head
About

Smart Timetable

Manage multiple class schedules, assignments, and tasks with notifications and reminders. Sync across devices and share with others. Track your progress with insightful charts and utilize convenient widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Multiple schedule management
  • Rotating schedule support
  • Lesson and assignment notifications
  • Today widget with countdown
  • iCloud and Apple Calendar sync
  • Apple Watch app and widget
  • Siri Shortcuts and Voice commands
Features
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Class schedule for students, teachers and parents. Features: • Friendly support. • Multiple schedules at once. • Rotating schedule support. • Schedules for 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks. • Today widget with countdown timer. • iCloud schedule synchronization. • Lesson and assignment notifications. • Photos, videos, audio for your tasks. • Application and widget for Apple Watch. • Sending schedules to friends and coworkers. • Chart with useful info about your schedules. • Sync schedules with Apple Calendar. • Siri Shortcuts and Voice commands. • Support iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. • Available for your Mac. This application helps you create as many schedules as you need for anything you might be planning. School, college, gym - you can easily manage it all in one application: Smart Timetable. User-friendly application widgets display relevant information - whether it’s the current lesson, next lesson, or tomorrow's lesson. The widget automatically switches to the next school day when today's classes are over. The current lesson time will show you how much time is left until it is completed. The timer is available on the Today widget, as well as on the Apple Watch face. Developer's website: https://smart-timetable.app Privacy policy: https://smart-timetable.app/docs/privacy-policy.html Terms of use: https://smart-timetable.app/docs/terms-of-use.html

About

Eureka! Timer

This visual countdown timer helps manage daily routines and transitions for children. Instead of numbers, a hidden picture gradually reveals itself as time elapses, making it engaging for kids and effective for parents and educators.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown with picture reveal
  • Customizable reveal styles and countdown displays
  • Save and load routine presets
  • Import personal photos
  • Multi-language support
  • Notification alerts
Features
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Eureka! Timer is a visual countdown timer for parents and teachers. Instead of numbers ticking down, a hidden picture uncovers itself as the time runs out. It finishes exactly when the timer does. Two minutes for toothbrushing, ten for cleaning a bedroom, five for a timeout, or the "thirty more seconds" that never actually means thirty seconds. Your kid watches the picture. You get the two minutes. WHAT IT'S FOR Mostly the daily friction. Brushing teeth, getting dressed, chores, cleaning up, screen time that has to end, and bedtime routines that stall halfway through. It's good for the short stuff a kitchen timer is clumsy for, too: handwashing, potty training, taking turns with a sibling, or the transition warning before you're standing at the door holding their coat. Teachers can use it in classrooms for the same reason parents can use it at home. A child who can't read a clock yet can still see how much is left. So can one who has no real sense of how long "five more minutes" is. It's the same idea as a sand timer, except the sand is a photograph of a penguin! HOW IT WORKS Pick how long, anywhere from fifteen seconds to an hour. Pick a picture. Then pick how it gets uncovered: puzzle pieces landing one at a time, paint splattering across the screen, a curtain pulling back, a blurry photo sharpening into focus, a clock-hand wipe, and five more. The countdown itself can be a ring around the edge of the screen, big digits in the corner, a little analog clock, or outlined numbers sitting over the photo. Or nothing at all, if the number is the part your kid fixates on. Six countdown looks, ten reveal styles, forty-eight built-in photos, three ticking sounds, three finish sounds and three celebrations. That's 77,760 combinations before you add a single picture of your own. If all that sounds like too much, just pick the time and hit "Surprise Me" and the rest will be picked at random. SAVE YOUR ROUTINES Save a setup once, as a named preset: duration, picture and reveal style remembered together. Teeth in the morning, cleanup after dinner, a timeout before it happens again. Tap it on the home screen and it starts. Works on phone and tablet, in English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. Turn on notifications and you'll get an alert if the timer finishes while you've switched to another app. THE PICTURES Forty-eight photos come with the app: animals, space, vehicles, toys and sports. All of them real photography, freely licensed or from public archives. You can use your own, too. The dog, grandma, the birthday party they're counting down to. Import as many as you want, crop them so they look right in portrait and landscape, and favorite the ones your kid asks for most so the app can pick one at random. Surprise them with their favorite picture, or let them pick. WHAT'S NOT IN IT No in-app purchases. Not a trial, not a paid tier, nothing locked. No full screen ads. There's one banner ad, on the home screen only. It never shows during a timer, and never on the finished picture. You can turn it off in settings for free, and it stays off. No account, no login, nothing to sign up for. No internet required. It works completely offline. No analytics and no tracking. Nothing about how you use the app goes anywhere, because there's nowhere for it to go. Your settings and your photos stay on your phone. No AI art. All forty-eight built-in photos are real photographs, and that won't change. It's a timer. It doesn't hand out points, it doesn't keep a streak, and it won't ask your kid to come back tomorrow.

Screenshots

Smart Timetable4 screens
Eureka! Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Eureka! Timer at none against Smart Timetable's 5. Eureka! Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Smart Timetable's advantage is ratings volume (3.5K vs 4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Smart Timetable sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Eureka! Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eureka! Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Timetable has 3.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Smart Timetable's written reviews are positive against 100% of Eureka! Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Timetable ships an update every 4 days, Eureka! Timer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Smart Timetable versus Eureka! Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart TimetableEureka! Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.5K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.5K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDenis KravcovDodge Tech LLC

Customer experience

Smart Timetable

All ratings3,500 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews2,004 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral7.3%
Negative12.5%

Eureka! Timer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Smart Timetable

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Schedules disappearing after updates
  • Widgets not working or showing incorrect information
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Crashes when trying to create new schedules

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to select multiple days for classes
  • Ability to set custom reminders and due dates for tasks
  • Weekly/monthly calendar view
  • Integration with other calendar/task apps
  • More customization options (colors, backgrounds, etc.)

Eureka! Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Smart Timetable

Subscriptions3
  • Upgrade to Pro - 1 month3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Class Schedule Premium$0.991 Month
  • Class Schedule Premium$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Schedule Planner PRO$3.99
  • Schedule Planner Premium$9.99
None

Eureka! Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Timetable free?
Smart Timetable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eureka! Timer free?
Eureka! Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Smart Timetable or Eureka! Timer?
Eureka! Timer is rated higher. Smart Timetable averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.5K ratings, while Eureka! Timer averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Smart Timetable or Eureka! Timer have ads?
Neither Smart Timetable nor Eureka! Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Timetable or Eureka! Timer?
Smart Timetable ships an update every 4 days, and Eureka! Timer every 9 days. Most recently, Smart Timetable was updated on November 12, 2026 and Eureka! Timer on November 7, 2026.

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