Comparison

Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Pixels

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Five Minute Mystery Timer4 screens
Pixels3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Five Minute Mystery Timer versus Pixels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive Minute Mystery TimerPixels
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (18 ratings)4.6 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1820 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWiggles 3DSystemic Games, LLC

Customer experience

Five Minute Mystery Timer

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

Pixels

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

None

Five Minute Mystery Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Pixels

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 Pixels free?
Pixels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Pixels?
Pixels is rated higher. Five Minute Mystery Timer averages 3.7 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Pixels averages 4.6 from 20 ratings.
Do Five Minute Mystery Timer or Pixels have ads?
Neither Five Minute Mystery Timer nor Pixels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Pixels?
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, and Pixels every 3 months. Most recently, Five Minute Mystery Timer was updated on October 20, 2026 and Pixels on October 10, 2026.

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