Mobile Cooling vs YardTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mobile Cooling
Remotely manage your compatible cooler's temperature, power, and settings via Bluetooth. Monitor battery protection, view power sources, and receive alerts for open lids. Ideal for outdoor enthusiasts and travelers.
- Remote temperature control
- On/off and compartment control
- Battery protection settings
- Temperature unit selection
- Power source monitoring
- Lid open alerts
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Use the Mobile Cooling app to control your CFX3, CFX5 and CFX2 cooler from a distance, providing you have a suitable Bluetooth connection to connect your phone to your cooler. Use the Mobile Cooling app to: · Control and monitor temperatures remotely (distance depends on environment) · Turn your cooler off/on, and/or control individual compartments · Set your battery protection level · Select temperature unit (°C or °F) · View which power source your cooler is running on – AC or DC · View the supply voltage level if running on DC power (CFX3 and CFX5) · See whether your cooler lid is open, and receive an alert if left open for more than 3 mins Compatible products: CFX3 , CFX5 and CFX2
YardTime
Coordinate with neighbors to manage when dogs are in the yard. Avoid conflicts with a shared real-time status, automated timers, and instant notifications for yard availability.
- One-tap yard status updates
- Automated timers for yard usage
- Real-time yard clear notifications
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Live Activity countdown
- Siri and Action Button integration
- Neighborly conflict avoidance
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YardTime keeps neighboring dogs from meeting at the fence. If your dog and the dog next door bark up a storm whenever they're both out back, YardTime gives you a shared, real-time yard status so you can take turns — no more changing a group-chat photo to "dog" and hoping everyone notices. One tap tells your neighbors the yard is taken. A timer frees it up automatically. And the moment it's clear, everyone gets a heads-up. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • One-tap status — "Let Rex out," and your neighbors know instantly. • Timers that check in — pick 15, 30, or 60 minutes (or open-ended). When time's up you get a nudge to extend or bring them in, and the yard frees itself if you've moved on. No more forgetting to flip it back. • "Yard is clear" alerts — get notified the second it's your turn, and let your dogs out with one tap right from the alert. • At-a-glance widgets — home screen and lock screen show clear or occupied without opening the app. • Live Activity — a countdown on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while your dog is out. • A shared recent-activity feed — who let dogs out and when the yard cleared, the same on every phone in the group. • Hands-free — say "Hey Siri, let the dog out," or map it to the Action Button, for when you've already got a dog by the collar. • A heads-up before your dog goes out on top of a neighbor's — in the app, from Siri or an NFC tag, on the widget, on your watch. Nobody's dogs meet at the fence by accident. SET UP IN UNDER TWO MINUTES Create a group, share one invite link, and your neighbors are in. No sign-ups, no passwords — it's tied to your iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your yard status lives in your own iCloud and is shared only with your group. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold. Ever. Built for a few households on a quiet street — not the whole internet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: YardTime at 100% against Mobile Cooling's 11%. YardTime also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). Mobile Cooling's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). 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.
YardTime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mobile Cooling has 122 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of Mobile Cooling's written reviews are positive against 100% of YardTime's.
Mobile Cooling ships an update every 3 months, YardTime every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mobile Cooling | YardTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dometic Group AB | PATRICK FRISCHMANN |
Customer experience
Mobile Cooling
YardTime
Bugs and requests
Mobile Cooling
Reported bugs
4 issues- Bluetooth pairing problems
- WiFi connectivity failures
- Temperature settings reset unexpectedly
- Graphs and data displays not working correctly
Requested features
4 requests- Add CarPlay support
- Improve historical data tracking
- Provide more detailed power metrics
- Allow customization of interface
YardTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mobile Cooling
No in-app purchases
YardTime
No in-app purchases









