Smart Kitchen Timer vs Kitchen Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Kitchen Timer
Easily manage multiple cooking timers simultaneously. Track when to start each dish to ensure your entire meal is ready at the same time. Features beautiful food imagery and allows for temperature and time adjustments.
- Simultaneous multi-dish timing
- Meal readiness synchronization
- Visual meal representation
- Adjustable cooking temperatures/times
- Edit timers mid-cook
- Save favorite meals
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Cooking multiple things at once? Simply add the food items you want to cook, press start and Smart Kitchen Timer will take care of the rest: • Keep informed of when you need to cook each food item to ensure all elements of your meal finish cooking at the same time. • See your meal represented by food photography from professional and amateur photographers. • Optionally adjust cooking temperatures and times when cooking different foods in the same oven. • Edit/Add cooking times, even after the timer has started. • Save your favourite meals so they can be easily timed next time you cook them.
Kitchen Timer
This app provides a simple yet multifunctional kitchen timer with customizable alarms and notifications. It offers features like quick start, tenkey time input, and background operation, all for free.
- Quick start functionality
- Tenkey time input
- Customizable alarm sounds and volume
- Vibration and tactile feedback
- Background notifications
- Sleep disabled setting
- Dark mode
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It's a simple & multifunctional kitchen timer app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Quick start - Time input by tenkey - Alarm sound, volume, repeat, automatic stop - Vibration - Background notifications, repeats, intervals - Button tap sound, volume, tactile feedback - Color (background, font) - Sleep disabled setting (timer is running) - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: kitchentimer://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Smart Kitchen Timer at none against Kitchen Timer's shown. Smart Kitchen Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Kitchen Timer's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Kitchen Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kitchen Timer has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Smart Kitchen Timer ships an update every 5 weeks, Kitchen Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Kitchen Timer | Kitchen Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edward Hesketh | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Smart Kitchen Timer
Kitchen Timer
In-app purchases
Smart Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
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