Widget Timer vs Nudge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Timer
Create and manage unlimited timers directly on your home screen with customizable widgets. Set repeating timers, personalize themes, and receive local notifications for alerts. Supports Siri and Shortcuts for enhanced control.
- Home screen timer widgets
- Interactive widget controls
- Lock screen widgets
- Customizable widget themes
- Theme gallery
- Repeating timers
- Siri and Shortcuts support
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Widget Timer puts beautiful, customizable timers right on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Pick the timer type that fits the moment, style it to match your setup, and keep it only a glance away. Every timer type, in one app: - Countdown: count down the days to a birthday, holiday, wedding, or trip, and let it roll over automatically every year. - Count Up: track the time since an anniversary, a milestone, or the day you started something new. - Progress: see how far through the week, month, quarter, or year you are. - Stopwatch: count elapsed time up from zero, starting and stopping as you go. - Standard: a simple one-shot timer that counts down (or up) to a set duration. - Repeat: a timer that repeats a set number of times, or infinitely, for periodic reminders like stretching or drinking water. Widgets, done right: - add timer widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen - interactive widgets, so you can start and stop your timers without opening the app - customize the theme of each widget, or pick one from a gallery of over 50 themes More to love: - run as many timers as you like, all at once - name every timer (emoji supported) - lots of alert sounds to choose from - multiple finished modes - local notifications alert you when the app is in the background (no network required) - long press to re-order the timers on the main screen - works with Siri and Shortcuts Some features require a purchase of either a Premium Subscription or a Premium Lifetime Unlock. Widget Timer Premium Subscription Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Nudge
This app helps you remember recurring tasks with custom alarms. Set daily reminders for medicine, hydration, or family obligations. It's a simple tool to supplement your calendar for frequently forgotten activities.
- Custom alarm creation
- Repeat alarms daily/weekly
- Customizable alarm sounds
- Optional 5-minute warning
- User-friendly interface
- Alarm customization (colors, icons, names)
- Cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
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Nudge is a simple daily schedule and alarm app for all the small things you keep meaning to do. Take your medicine. Drink some water. Roll the trash out. Stand up and stretch. Pick up the kids. Walk the dog. Call your mom and tell her you love her (dad too, he is waiting). A Nudge alarm takes about ten seconds to set up, and then it just shows up when you need it, like a friend who happens to be very good with time. Nudge is not trying to replace your calendar. Your calendar is for meetings and dentist appointments. Nudge is for the stuff you do over and over, the things that never make it onto a calendar and still manage to slip your mind. Pick a time, choose the days, pick a sound, then give it a name, a color and an icon so you know what it is at a glance. That is the whole setup. Nothing to learn, nothing to maintain. HOW PEOPLE USE NUDGE • Medicine, vitamins and refills, on time and on the right days • Water breaks and stretch breaks during long stretches at a desk • Trash and recycling night, so the truck outside is never a surprise • School pickup, practice, lessons and carpool • Feeding the dog, walking the dog, the cat's medicine • Walk, meditate, journal, whatever you promised yourself back in January • Calling the people you love more often than you currently do FEATURES • Create custom alarms in seconds • Repeat on any day, or any mix of days • Optional 5-minute warning bell so you can finish what you are doing first • Choose from a library of sounds • Name your nudges and give them colors and icons • Home screen widget with today's schedule at a glance • Ask Siri to create a nudge without opening the app • Light, dark, or match your system appearance • Mute everything for a quiet day without deleting a single alarm • Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac NUDGE PRO Pro removes all ads, syncs your nudges across iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud, and unlocks more icons and sounds. The free version keeps doing everything it always did. Got a nudge idea we should have thought of? Send it to us from inside the app. We read all of it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Widget Timer at none against Nudge's shown. Widget Timer also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Nudge's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (65% vs 44%). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Widget Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Nudge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nudge holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 186 and 280 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Widget Timer's written reviews are positive against 65% of Nudge's.
Widget Timer ships an update fortnightly, Nudge every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Timer | Nudge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (186 ratings) | 4.6 (280 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 186 | 280 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Foobar Creative | Jeff Battson |
Customer experience
Widget Timer
Nudge
User reviews
Widget Timer
From 186 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and functional interface
- 👍 Great for medication reminders
- 👍 Customizable colors
- 👍 Works well for basic timers
- 👍 Good for lockscreen widgets
Room to improve
- 🐛 Timers don't disappear after finishing
- 🐛 No instructions provided
- 🐛 Sound notifications don't play from widget
- 🐛 Widgets require tapping to update
- 🐛 Paid version needed for multiple timers
Nudge
From 280 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use interface
- 🎨 Customizable colors, icons, and sounds
- ⏰ Effective daily reminder functionality
- 🔄 Cross-device syncing (phone and Mac)
- 📱 Better than native iPhone reminders app
Room to improve
- 📢 Excessive and intrusive ads
- 💰 Expensive subscription model ($9.99/month)
- 🔔 Notification/alert system unreliable
- 📱 Limited iPad landscape mode support
- ⚠️ App freezes and crashes
Bugs and requests
Widget Timer
Reported bugs
11 issues- Old timers are not deletable
- Alert sounds don't play from widgets
- Countdown feature requires tapping widget to update
- Nonstop battery draining
- Paid widget on iPad doesn't work
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- Widgets not appearing on lock screen or home screen
- Widget looks bad, font too large
- Cannot pause timer
- Timer doesn't show unless a new one is added
- Timer doesn't ring when finished
- Sound stops when starting a new timer before the previous one ends
Requested features
12 requests- Option to remove old timers
- Instructions for use
- Fix sound notifications for widgets
- Allow resetting/turning off alarms from widget
- Repeat alarm option at the end
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- Smaller creation table for timers
- Timers longer than 23h 59m 59s
- Show exact end time when setting timers
- Allow hearing samples of alarm sounds before upgrading
- Pause timer functionality
- Option to repeat timers
- Allow users to hear samples of extra alarm sounds before upgrading
Nudge
Reported bugs
6 issues- App freezes when turning on/off with recurring reminders
- Notifications don't send despite being configured
- Delayed notification delivery (requires hours to start working)
- App crashes after initial setup
- Ads difficult to close
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- Aggressive ad interruptions during task creation
Requested features
14 requests- iPad landscape mode support
- One-time/specific date reminders (not just recurring)
- Apple Watch alert support
- More interval options (every 4 days, specific Sundays, etc.)
- Separate weekly schedules/templates
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- Home screen widgets
- Manual skip option for reminders
- Mark reminders as done for the day
- Light mode option
- Ad-free premium version
- Ability to set reminders multiple times per day
- More emoji options (smileys, workout icons, etc.)
- Repeating alert tones with ending alert option
- Monthly event planning capabilities
In-app purchases
Widget Timer
- Widget Timer Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Widget Timer Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$49.99
Nudge
- Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
Questions
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