Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Foundry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Real-time timer
- Cooperative game support
- Mystery solving countdown
- Encouraging reminders
- Curator character interaction
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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.
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.
- Industry project collaborations
- Digital event hosting
- Technology outreach events
- Cyber-security and STEM focus
- Professional identity assertion
- Widening participation in digital skills
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Five Minute Mystery Timer | Foundry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (18 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | University of the West of England |
Customer experience
Five Minute Mystery Timer
Foundry
In-app purchases
Five Minute Mystery Timer
No in-app purchases
Foundry
No in-app purchases
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