Time vs Haptic Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Haptic Interval Timer
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Feel time without watching the clock. Haptic Interval Timer taps your wrist with a silent vibration cue at the interval you choose, so your hands and eyes stay on what matters. Built for Apple Watch first: pick a preset, press Start, and lower your wrist. Cues keep arriving with the screen off and the iPhone away. WHAT IT DOES - Repeating haptic cues every few seconds, minutes, or hours - Countdown mode (pomodoros, presentations, workouts, breathwork) or count-up mode (stretching, pacing, rehabilitation) - Eight named cue patterns to choose from: single, double, and triple taps, rise, fall, alert, success, and warning - A Test Haptics screen that plays every pattern so you can pick one you can feel before you rely on it - Saved presets, ready in three taps or fewer from the Watch, plus a complication that starts your last preset instantly - Pause, resume, reset, and add five minutes without touching your phone - A Setup screen that checks notification permission and explains every condition that can weaken a cue: silent mode, Theater Mode, Water Lock, wrist detection, Focus, Low Power Mode, and haptic strength RELIABLE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT Cues are scheduled ahead of time as local notifications, which is what lets them fire with the display asleep. A distinct alert marks the end of a countdown. The Watch keeps a window of upcoming cues pending and refills it in the background and whenever you open the app. The running screen always shows how far the current window reaches, so you are never guessing whether the next cue is really coming. There is no sound. Not a quiet sound, none: cues are wrist taps only, so nothing you do here can interrupt a meeting, a class, or a patient. ACCESSIBLE BY DEFAULT Every control is VoiceOver labelled, the timer display scales with Dynamic Type, and the transport buttons are full-size tap targets. Cues are tactile, so the app works when sound is not an option, or not available to you. WHO IT IS FOR Anyone who needs a repeating silent cue: focus sessions and time blindness, interval workouts and stretching, presentations and teaching, breathwork and pacing exercises, and anyone who prefers or needs tactile rather than audible reminders. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE No account. No subscription. No tracking. No analytics. The app contains no networking code at all, so everything stays on your devices and works fully offline. The one-time purchase includes the complete app. The iPhone companion mirrors your presets to the Watch over the air when both are nearby, and the Watch keeps working entirely on its own. Note: haptic cues require an Apple Watch. The iPhone app configures presets and previews patterns using the iPhone's own haptics; the cues themselves play from the Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Time at Free against Haptic Interval Timer's $0.99. Time also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 17.0). Haptic Interval Timer's advantage is chart position (#138 vs unranked). On 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
Time is free to download; Haptic Interval Timer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Time | Haptic Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #138 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akhil Sharma | FatCouple OÜ |
In-app purchases
Time
No in-app purchases
Haptic Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
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