Colored Tiles Lite vs Dial Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colored Tiles Lite
Create interactive tile collections with custom images and sounds. Use your camera, web search, or music library to personalize tiles. Play memory games or share your creations with others for endless fun.
- Customizable tiles with images and sounds
- Image import from camera or web
- Sound import from recordings or music library
- Add colored frames to tiles
- Play memory games
- Manage and share tile collections
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ColoredTiles allows you to set up tile collections. Each tile is made of an image and a sound. For the image you can use your camera or search on the web. The sound can be recorded, or selected from your music library. And you can add colored frames! The tile will play when you touch it. Use long touch to edit it. Press the play button on the bottom right to play games like memory, and the setup button on the bottom left to manage your tile collections. Tile collections can be shared with others. Endless fun for young and old! (Get the Pro version to remove ads and more color options.)
Dial Timer
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A dial timer. To set the timer, rotate the dial with your finger to the desired time. When you release your finger the timer will begin counting down to zero. The timer max duration can be set from 60 seconds to 16 hours. The on/off button will start and stop the timer. Dial Timer will send a notification if your device is in sleep mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Colored Tiles Lite at weekly against Dial Timer's every 3 weeks. Colored Tiles Lite also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Colored Tiles Lite ships an update weekly, Dial Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colored Tiles Lite | Dial Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sven Bergmann | John Millhouse |
In-app purchases
Colored Tiles Lite
No in-app purchases
Dial Timer
No in-app purchases
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