Five Minute Mystery Timer vs The Search for UAPs
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.
The Search for UAPs
Engage in a real-world search for unidentified flying objects. Use your astronomy skills, telescope, camera, and research to track and document anomalous phenomena at the edge of space. Deduce the UAP's location through logical reasoning and investigation.
- Track unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)
- Investigate the edge of space
- Use telescope, camera, and research
- Employ logical reasoning and deduction
- Record findings and deduce locations
- Companion app for a real-world search game
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Over the past 100 years, there have been many sightings of unidentified flying objects. While this has often been credited to the sci-fi craze of the middle of the 20th Century, recent sightings by respected members of the military and captured video show that there is something out there that we can’t quite identify. The search is on to discover and fully document this phenomena so that we may understand more about it. THE SEARCH FOR UAPS is a game about this real-world search. You are astronomy enthusiasts and you’ve recently seen something in your evening stargazing that you can’t explain. Using your telescope, camera, and computer research, you’re trying to track down this Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to help the global scientific community gain a better understanding. While UAPs have been spotted all over the world, you’ll be focusing on the edge of space, where it is possible that these objects might be. This is a companion app for THE SEARCH FOR UAPS, which will randomly choose the locations for the UAP and other objects in orbit around Earth. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to investigate the skies, record your findings, and deduce where the UAP must be!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Five Minute Mystery Timer at 3.7 against The Search for UAPs's 2.0. Five Minute Mystery Timer also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). The Search for UAPs's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 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 2.0. 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 The Search for UAPs's.
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, The Search for UAPs every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Minute Mystery Timer | The Search for UAPs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (18 ratings) — better | 2.0 (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 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | Renegade Games LLC |
Customer experience
Five Minute Mystery Timer
The Search for UAPs
In-app purchases
Five Minute Mystery Timer
No in-app purchases
The Search for UAPs
No in-app purchases
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