Comparison

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.

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Five Minute Mystery Timer4 screens
The Search for UAPs4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Five Minute Mystery Timer versus The Search for UAPs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive Minute Mystery TimerThe Search for UAPs
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (18 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWiggles 3DRenegade 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%

The Search for UAPs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Five Minute Mystery Timer

No in-app purchases

None

The Search for UAPs

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 The Search for UAPs free?
The Search for UAPs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Five Minute Mystery Timer or The Search for UAPs?
Five Minute Mystery Timer is rated higher. Five Minute Mystery Timer averages 3.7 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while The Search for UAPs averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Five Minute Mystery Timer or The Search for UAPs have ads?
Neither Five Minute Mystery Timer nor The Search for UAPs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Five Minute Mystery Timer or The Search for UAPs?
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, and The Search for UAPs every 5 months. Most recently, Five Minute Mystery Timer was updated on November 3, 2026 and The Search for UAPs on November 4, 2026.

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