Four Seconds vs Tap Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Precise timer stopping
- Four-second challenge
- Global leaderboard
- Simple gameplay
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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!
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.
- Goal challenge mode
- Tournament bracket competition
- Team play
- Customizable themes and colors
- Portrait/landscape lock
- No accounts or data collection
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Tap Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Four Seconds asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Four Seconds | Tap Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrei Antonescu | Christian Ayisi |
Customer experience
Four Seconds
Tap Timer
In-app purchases
Four Seconds
No in-app purchases
Tap Timer
- Tap Timer Pro Lifetime$4.99









