Comparison

Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Putzplan

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

Putzplan

Create personalized cleaning schedules and share them with household members or cleaning staff. Supports multiple languages for easy understanding of tasks. Customize time intervals for recurring chores.

Highlights
  • Create custom cleaning plans
  • Share plans via WhatsApp/SMS
  • Multi-language support (DE, EN, ES, PL, RO, TR, UK, AR)
  • Predefined rooms and activities
  • Customizable time intervals
  • Sort and filter task lists
Features
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With this app you can create your individual cleaning plan and send it via WhatsApp or SMS to the children, the roommates or the cleaning pearl. The predefined rooms and activities are already stored in German, English, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Arabic. The cleaning plan can also be sent in these languages.... This function helps your cleaning pearl to understand the required activities in translated form.... The list can be sorted and filtered according to requirements. The time intervals can be entered individually so that you also have things on the screen that only have to be done once a quarter, for example.

Screenshots

Five Minute Mystery Timer4 screens
Putzplan3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Putzplan at 100% against Five Minute Mystery Timer's 40%. Five Minute Mystery Timer's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and update cadence (every 10 months vs every 38 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Five Minute Mystery Timer is free to download; Putzplan costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, Putzplan every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Five Minute Mystery Timer versus Putzplan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive Minute Mystery TimerPutzplan
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating3.7 (18 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 months — betterEvery 38 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWiggles 3DAndrea Schmerber

Customer experience

Five Minute Mystery Timer

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

Putzplan

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Five Minute Mystery Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Putzplan

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 Putzplan free?
Putzplan costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Five Minute Mystery Timer or Putzplan have ads?
Neither Five Minute Mystery Timer nor Putzplan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Five Minute Mystery Timer or Putzplan?
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, and Putzplan every 38 months. Most recently, Five Minute Mystery Timer was updated on October 20, 2026 and Putzplan on October 19, 2026.

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