Comparison

Time vs Line Timer

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

Head to head
About

Time

This app provides repeating interval-based notifications for various activities, including workouts, experiments, and timed tests. It offers customizable sound or vibration alerts and allows users to queue multiple timers sequentially for complex tasks.

Highlights
  • Repeating interval notifications
  • Customizable sound or vibration alerts
  • Background operation on Apple Watch
  • Sequential timer queuing
  • HealthKit integration for workout pacing
  • Syncs daily stats with Health app
Features
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Note: The app uses HealthKit to enable pacing a workout session by running in the background and it connects with the Health app to sync your daily stats. When used on the apple watch, it can be used for repeating, haptic, inaudible alerts at user-specified intervals. *NEW FEATURE*: Companion Apple Watch app is now here and can work in the background! TimeMinder is a repeating interval-based app that sends users notifications (either via Sound or Vibration-only notifications) at every interval specified by the user. It is excellent for use in activities where the user needs some reminder every so often: interval focused or timed exercise, science lab experiments requiring measurements to be taken at specified intervals, standardized testing where time on questions is limited, etc. The app also has an advanced feature, allowing the user to "queue" up several timers before pressing "Start" to fire up several repeating interval-based timers back-to-back (successively). This can be useful in tasks that require differing repeating interval-based timers, such as timed presentation where you want to send different amounts of time on different slides.

About

Line Timer

Features
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Type your steps, add a time, press play. That's it. - Read out loud. - Change theme. - Save pages.

Screenshots

Time2 screens
Line Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Line Timer at every 3 weeks against Time's every 21 months. Time's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time ships an update every 21 months, Line Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Time versus Line Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeLine Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkhil SharmaErik Andresen

In-app purchases

None

Time

No in-app purchases

None

Line Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time free?
Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Line Timer free?
Line Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time or Line Timer have ads?
Neither Time nor Line Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time or Line Timer?
Time ships an update every 21 months, and Line Timer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Time was updated on September 21, 2026 and Line Timer on October 9, 2026.

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