Comparison

Four Seconds vs Tap Timer

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

Head to head
About

Four Seconds

Test your timing by stopping a timer at precisely four seconds. Compete with others on the leaderboard to see who has the best precision. It's a simple yet challenging game of skill.

Highlights
  • Precise timer stopping
  • Four-second challenge
  • Global leaderboard
  • Simple gameplay
Features
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Can you hit the bullseye? ---- A timer and a simple rule: stop it at exactly four seconds. Let's see how well this goes. See you on the leaderboard!

About

Tap Timer

A simple yet challenging party game where players tap a screen to stop a timer as close to a target time as possible. Compete individually, in teams, or in tournament brackets.

Highlights
  • Goal challenge mode
  • Tournament bracket competition
  • Team play
  • Customizable themes and colors
  • Portrait/landscape lock
  • No accounts or data collection
Features
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Tap the screen. The timer starts. Tap again. It stops. That is the whole game, and it is harder than it sounds. Tap Timer turns your sense of time into a party game. Set a target, hide the digits, and find out who can stop the clock closest to it. No accounts, no waiting, no setup. Just one phone passed around a room. JUST YOU AND THE CLOCK A clean, precise stopwatch with a full screen digital readout. Start it, stop it, or let it keep counting across stops. GOAL CHALLENGE Pick a target like 5.00 seconds. The timer hides while it runs, so all you have is your own internal clock. Everyone takes a turn, then the results screen ranks who came closest. Land on the target exactly and the confetti does not stop. TOURNAMENT Bracket competition for the whole room. Shuffled seeding, automatic byes, and match by match elimination until one player is left standing. Accidental start? There is a retry. TEAMS Give each team a name and a color, split the room, and play team against team. Scores average across every member. BUILT FOR PASSING AROUND Every player gets a name and a color, and the whole screen turns that color on their turn. A brief pause between turns means nobody taps by accident, and the app always tells you who to hand the phone to next. MADE TO LOOK GOOD Seven segment digits, pixel art arcade panels, and six themes. Pick your own background and number colors, lock the game to portrait or landscape, and play with sound or in silence. No subscription. No ads. No accounts. No data collected.

Screenshots

Four Seconds4 screens
Tap Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Four Seconds at none against Tap Timer's 1. Four Seconds also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Tap Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Four Seconds asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Four Seconds against 5.0 for Tap Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Four Seconds versus Tap Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFour SecondsTap Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 22 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrei AntonescuChristian Ayisi

Customer experience

Four Seconds

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tap Timer

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

In-app purchases

None

Four Seconds

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tap Timer

One-time1
  • Tap Timer Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Four Seconds free?
Four Seconds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tap Timer free?
Tap Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Four Seconds or Tap Timer?
Four Seconds and Tap Timer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Four Seconds or Tap Timer have ads?
Neither Four Seconds nor Tap Timer shows ads.

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