Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Pixels
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.
Pixels
Enhance your tabletop gaming experience with digital dice that offer customizable LED colors and animations. Set up unique profiles for specific rolls, add custom audio cues, and even integrate with smart home devices.
- Customizable LED colors and animations
- Profile creation for specific rolls
- Audible roll results
- Custom audio clip integration
- Web requests for smart home integration
- Light and dark mode support
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Light Up Your Game with Pixels Dice! Enjoy the analog feel of dice in your hand with all new digital features available when connected to this Pixels app. Use the Pixels app to customize LED colors and animations on your dice, using profiles and rules to make things happen exactly how you want to enhance your TTRPG session. Create a “Nat 20” profile that plays a unique animation of rainbow colors whenever you roll a natural 20, or a “Fireball” profile that plays a flickering orange color when your d6 rolls max damage. Use the app’s built-in Speak Numbers profile to make your roll results audible for the whole table! Or add your own audio clips to be played on rolls. Use web requests to communicate with external sites like IFTTT. Create rules that change the colors of your smart light bulbs based on your roll results. — COMING SOON: - ACCESSIBILITY: Improved navigation, screen reader compatibility, and new user settings. Switch between light and dark mode, increase contrast, adjust animation speeds, and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixels at 4.6 against Five Minute Mystery Timer's 3.7. Pixels also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 40%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Pixels holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Five Minute Mystery Timer's written reviews are positive against 71% of Pixels's.
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, Pixels every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Minute Mystery Timer | Pixels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (18 ratings) | 4.6 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | Systemic Games, LLC |
Customer experience
Five Minute Mystery Timer
Pixels
In-app purchases
Five Minute Mystery Timer
No in-app purchases
Pixels
No in-app purchases
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