Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Skull Keeper
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Skull Keeper
Simplify scoring for the Skull King board game. Track scores, manage players, and resume unfinished games. Enjoy the game without complex calculations, with options to disable animations or hide totals for a thrilling experience. Supports expansion features.
- Skull King score tracking
- Player name setup
- Resume unfinished games
- Disable scoring animations
- Hide total points option
- Supports expansion features
Read full descriptionHide full description
Do you enjoy playing the Skull King board game, but not the way of keeping the score? This app is for you! Keep track of the score while fully enjoying the game and without worrying about all the scoring rules with Skull Keeper! Just start a new game, setup the players names and prepare to enjoy a 10 round session of Skull King without having to think too much about the scoring process, and even if you can't finish the game in one sitting, just close the app and the next time you are all gathered up you can continue your last unfinished session. If you feel the scoring is a little slow with all the animations, you can disable them from the settings, or even keep the total points hidden till the end of the game for a more thrilling experience! Even the Legendary Expansion and the 2021 updated version features are available in Skull Keeper, including Loot Alliances, Pirate Abilities and the mighty and ferocious Kraken and White Whale! Call up your friends and family to start a new game without worrying about the scoring and YO-HO-HO!
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Skull Keeper at 71% against Five Minute Mystery Timer's 40%. Skull Keeper also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (57 vs 18). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Skull Keeper holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 57 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Five Minute Mystery Timer's written reviews are positive against 71% of Skull Keeper's.
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, Skull Keeper every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Minute Mystery Timer | Skull Keeper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (18 ratings) | 4.0 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 71.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | Marck Apps |
Customer experience
Five Minute Mystery Timer
Skull Keeper
In-app purchases
Five Minute Mystery Timer
No in-app purchases
Skull Keeper
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Five Minute Mystery Timer free?
Is Skull Keeper free?
Which has better reviews, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Skull Keeper?
Do Five Minute Mystery Timer or Skull Keeper have ads?
Which is updated more often, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Skull Keeper?
Other comparisons
