Comparison

Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Foundry

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

Head to head
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.

About

Foundry

This app serves as a digital hub for industry-themed projects and events, connecting students with professional opportunities. It aims to prepare learners for the workplace by facilitating industry collaborations and hosting technology outreach events.

Highlights
  • Industry project collaborations
  • Digital event hosting
  • Technology outreach events
  • Cyber-security and STEM focus
  • Professional identity assertion
  • Widening participation in digital skills
Features
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Developed through a research-led design process, the industry-themed Foundry feels entirely unlike traditional learning spaces, intended as an ‘other space’ on campus where students can assert their professional identity through work with industry on paid projects that fit around their studies; delivering against a core objective of the IoC to ensure university learners are ready for the workplace. Aside from being home to our ‘Enterprise Studios’, the Foundry is also a digital event space, soon to be hosting a high-profile calendar of technology outreach and engagement events across cyber-security, computer science, creative technologies and STEM subjects designed to widen participation around coding and digital skills. The Foundry was a designated host-site for Bristol for the 2019 Global Game Jam, quickly becoming the largest jam site in the UK.

Screenshots

Five Minute Mystery Timer4 screens
Foundry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Five Minute Mystery Timer at 3.7 against Foundry's 1.0. Five Minute Mystery Timer also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). Foundry's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Five Minute Mystery Timer holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Five Minute Mystery Timer has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Five Minute Mystery Timer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Foundry's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, Foundry every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Five Minute Mystery Timer versus Foundry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive Minute Mystery TimerFoundry
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (18 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWiggles 3DUniversity of the West of England

Customer experience

Five Minute Mystery Timer

All ratings18 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative56.0%

Foundry

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Five Minute Mystery Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Foundry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Five Minute Mystery Timer free?
Five Minute Mystery Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Foundry free?
Foundry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Foundry?
Five Minute Mystery Timer is rated higher. Five Minute Mystery Timer averages 3.7 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Foundry averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Five Minute Mystery Timer or Foundry have ads?
Neither Five Minute Mystery Timer nor Foundry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Foundry?
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, and Foundry every 3 weeks. Most recently, Five Minute Mystery Timer was updated on October 8, 2026 and Foundry on October 3, 2026.

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