Five Minute Mystery Timer vs Thread Stash
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.
Thread Stash
Manage your sewing thread collection effortlessly. Scan labels to add threads to your inventory and automatically create shopping lists for your projects.
- Scan thread labels for automatic entry
- Manage thread inventory
- Generate project shopping lists
- Track project thread requirements
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Thread Stash is a thread inventory management app that allows you to scan thread labels to automatically add them to your inventory. Automatically generate shopping lists by entering project thread requirements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Thread Stash at 100% against Five Minute Mystery Timer's 40%. Thread Stash also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months). Five Minute Mystery Timer's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (18 vs 4). 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 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Five Minute Mystery Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Thread Stash's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Five Minute Mystery Timer ships an update every 10 months, Thread Stash monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Minute Mystery Timer | Thread Stash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (18 ratings) — better | 3.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wiggles 3D | VICTORIA VASEY JOY-WARREN |
Customer experience
Five Minute Mystery Timer
Thread Stash
In-app purchases
Five Minute Mystery Timer
No in-app purchases
Thread Stash
No in-app purchases
Questions
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