Comparison

SF TimeTable vs Bubl Timer

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

Head to head
About

SF TimeTable

Get real-time Muni departure predictions for buses, trains, streetcars, and cable cars in San Francisco. Features home and lock screen widgets, push notifications, and Siri shortcuts for quick access to transit information.

Highlights
  • Real-time Muni departure predictions
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Push notifications for departure times
  • Siri Shortcuts support
  • Stop browser with connection info
  • Apple Watch app with synced favorites
Features
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TimeTable offers quick access to Muni departure predictions throughout the city of San Francisco in a beautiful, easy-to-read format. Features: • Lightning fast access to Muni train, bus, streetcar, and cable car departure predictions • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for Muni alerts and delays • Departure prediction tracking on your Lock Screen and push notifications when it's time to leave for the stop • Shortcuts support; just ask Siri to find N-Judah predictions with TimeTable • Focus filters support; see only the stops that are important to your current focus • Stop browser for detailed connection information • Also available on Apple Watch with favorites stops and routes synced via iCloud

About

Bubl Timer

This app provides a visual interval timer using interactive "bubbles" for various time-based needs. It offers customizable fills, colors, and symbols, with Siri integration for hands-free control. Live Activities and widgets display countdowns on your lock and home screens.

Highlights
  • Visual bubble timers
  • Siri voice commands
  • Live Activities and widgets
  • Customizable fills and colors
  • History tracking
  • Apple Watch app
Features
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Bubl Timer is an interval timer for moments when you don't want to think. Each timer is a bubble. Tap it to start, tap again to stop, hold it for its history. That's the whole interface. Or say it: "Hey Siri, start my coffee bubble in Bubl Timer." Siri starts the bubble even with the phone locked, and the Lock Screen countdown appears at once. Stop one with "Hey Siri, stop coffee in Bubl", or everything with "stop all bubbles in Bubl". Everything a timer needs is free. Bubl Pro is a one-time purchase that adds more fills, colours, symbols and alarm sounds. No subscription. MADE FOR SPACING THINGS OUT Set a bubble to the gap you want to keep, whether that's between coffees, breaks, feeds, sets at the gym, or anything else you'd rather not do too soon. The bubble fills as time passes and tells you when the wait is over, with a notification even if the app is closed. LIVING FILLS Choose what's inside each bubble: Liquid, Smoke, Snow or Crystals. Liquid drains as the time runs down; smoke thickens, snow piles up and crystals fall in one by one as it passes. They move when you move and squish against the edge of the screen like something real. THREE WAYS TO SEE YOUR BUBBLES Single shows one big bubble at a time. Pair lines them up two by two. Trio stacks three. Roll through them with a flick; the ones you park stay out of the way in the dock. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN Every running bubble counts down in one Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Home Screen widgets show up to four bubbles in the small size and six in the medium, each with its ring and time left, plus Lock Screen widgets. YOUR OWN BUBBLES Add bubbles with any symbol, colour, time and fill. Hours with two buttons, minutes on a rail, from one minute to a full day. Hold a bubble in Edit to move it, park the ones you don't need, bring them back later. COUNT UP, TOO A count-up bubble is a stopwatch: it shows how long since you started it, with an optional reminder that keeps counting after. A HISTORY THAT SHOWS THE SHAPE OF YOUR DAY Every start is remembered. See it as a list, as Lanes (a 24-hour strip for each day), as a month of glowing days, or as a cloud of bubbles you can push around. Delete a run with a swipe, clear a day with a hold, undo either with a tap. RING UNTIL YOU STOP IT On iOS 26 and later, turn on Ring until stopped and a bubble that ends keeps sounding on the Lock Screen until you tap Stop, even on Silent or inside a Focus. Turn it off for single bubbles in their editor. MADE TO BE FELT A tick on every control, detents as you scroll, a pop when a timer ends. Set haptics to Full, Soft or Off in Settings. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app shows your bubbles in their colours. Tap one to start it on your iPhone, double tap to reset it; the countdown runs on the Watch. The Watch keeps nothing of its own: your timers and history stay on the phone. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads, no third-party code. Timers, history and preferences live on your phone, backed up only to your own iCloud so a new phone picks up where you left off. Alerts are local notifications scheduled on the device.

Screenshots

SF TimeTable4 screens
Bubl Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SF TimeTable at none against Bubl Timer's 1. SF TimeTable also leads on ratings volume (103 vs 5) and device support (6 vs 2). Bubl Timer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Bubl Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SF TimeTable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bubl Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SF TimeTable has 103 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of SF TimeTable's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bubl Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SF TimeTable ships an update every 11 days, Bubl Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
SF TimeTable versus Bubl Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSF TimeTableBubl Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (103 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings103 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS27.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB9 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHarry ShamanskyFEEL THE ENERGY LLC

Customer experience

SF TimeTable

All ratings103 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.9%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

Bubl Timer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SF TimeTable

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bubl Timer

One-time1
  • Bubl Pro$4.99

Questions

Is SF TimeTable free?
SF TimeTable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bubl Timer free?
Bubl Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SF TimeTable or Bubl Timer?
Bubl Timer is rated higher. SF TimeTable averages 4.8 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while Bubl Timer averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do SF TimeTable or Bubl Timer have ads?
Neither SF TimeTable nor Bubl Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SF TimeTable or Bubl Timer?
SF TimeTable ships an update every 11 days, and Bubl Timer weekly. Most recently, SF TimeTable was updated on November 2, 2026 and Bubl Timer on October 31, 2026.

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