Comparison

GloomsteR vs Five Minute Mystery Timer

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

Head to head

GloomsteR

Gloomhaven assistant

Free

🔧 Utilities

★ 4.8858 ratingsView app →

Five Minute Mystery Timer

Free

🔧 Utilities

★ 3.718 ratingsView app →

About

GloomsteR

Enhance your Gloomhaven board game sessions with this comprehensive assistant. Manage spoilers, track scenario progress, and access interactive maps and scenario details. Save notes, treasures, and ratings for a richer gaming experience.

Highlights

Flexible spoiler control
Interactive scenario viewer
Interactive map with progress tracking
Scenario progress tracking
Save notes, treasures, and ratings

Features

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GloomsteR helps you to get the best experience while you playing Gloomhaven the board game. • Flexible level of spoilers - map tiles, text sections, list of monsters & tokens • Interactive scenario viewer with tokens info, treasure details • Interactive map with prosperity track, stickers, global achievements • Track progress of scenarios • Save notes, treasures, ratings

About

Five Minute Mystery Timer

This timer app supports a real-time, cooperative tabletop game. It tracks remaining time for solving mysteries and offers encouraging reminders from the museum's curator.

Highlights

Real-time timer
Cooperative game support
Mystery solving countdown
Encouraging reminders
Curator character interaction

Features

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This timer is a companion app for 5-Minute Mystery, the real-time, co-operative tabletop game set in the fanciful Museum of Everything. This app keeps track of the time you have left to solve each mystery, while providing helpful reminders and encouragement from Scrubbles McBubbledy, the eccentric curator of the museum.

Screenshots

GloomsteR4 screens

Five Minute Mystery Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: GloomsteR at 97% against Five Minute Mystery Timer's 40%. GloomsteR also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months). Five Minute Mystery Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GloomsteR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Five Minute Mystery Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GloomsteR holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GloomsteR has 858 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of GloomsteR's written reviews are positive against 40% of Five Minute Mystery Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GloomsteR ships an update every 3 weeks, Five Minute Mystery Timer every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level

GloomsteR versus Five Minute Mystery Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	GloomsteR	Five Minute Mystery Timer
Price	Free	Free
Rating	4.8 (858 ratings) — better	3.7 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews	96.8% of reviews — better	40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings	858 — better	18
Update frequency	Every 3 weeks — better	Every 10 months
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	Yes	No — better
Monetization	Free with in-app purchases	Free — better
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod	iPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS	9.0 — better	15.0
Further details — not scored
Size	180 MB	99 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Vadym Pavlov	Wiggles 3D

Customer experience

GloomsteR

All ratings849 ratings

Positive97.5%

Neutral1.6%

Negative0.8%

Written reviews125 reviews

Positive96.8%

Neutral1.6%

Negative1.6%

Five Minute Mystery Timer

All ratings18 ratings

Positive61.1%

Neutral5.6%

Negative33.3%

Written reviews25 reviews

Positive40.0%

Neutral4.0%

Negative56.0%

Bugs and requests

GloomsteR

Reported bugs

3 issues

Scenario completion not updating properly
Blurring issues with adaptive monsters feature
Scenario labels not visible with empty room overlay

Requested features

8 requests

Party achievement tracking
Ability to see contents of treasure chests
Option to hide unrevealed map tiles completely
Scenario completion status indicators
Milestone notifications

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Character sheet integration
Jaws of the Lion and Forgotten Circles support
Cross-device synchronization

Five Minute Mystery Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

GloomsteR

One-time1

Adaptive Monsters$4.99

None

Five Minute Mystery Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GloomsteR free?

GloomsteR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

Is Five Minute Mystery Timer free?

Five Minute Mystery Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Which has better reviews, GloomsteR or Five Minute Mystery Timer?

GloomsteR is rated higher. GloomsteR averages 4.8 out of 5 from 858 ratings, while Five Minute Mystery Timer averages 3.7 from 18 ratings.

Do GloomsteR or Five Minute Mystery Timer have ads?

Neither GloomsteR nor Five Minute Mystery Timer shows ads.

Which is updated more often, GloomsteR or Five Minute Mystery Timer?

GloomsteR ships an update every 3 weeks, and Five Minute Mystery Timer every 10 months. Most recently, GloomsteR was updated on October 25, 2026 and Five Minute Mystery Timer on October 20, 2026.