Cooking vs Cook kitchen timers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cooking
Simplify meal preparation by coordinating multiple dishes to be ready simultaneously. Input your desired mealtime and individual cooking durations, and the app generates a precise schedule for starting each item. Avoid juggling multiple timers and ensure perfectly cooked food for any occasion.
- Synchronize multiple dish cooking times
- Set desired meal completion time
- Input individual ingredient cooking durations
- Generate start/finish time plan
- Create custom alerts for each step
- Ideal for holidays and dinner parties
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Cooking multiple dishes for Christmas, a Sunday roast or a big family meal? CookingTimer takes the maths and stress out of meal preparation by ensuring all your food is ready at the same time. Add all your dishes in one place, set when you want to eat, and let the app tell you when to start each one. Perfect for: • Christmas dinner • Sunday roasts • Dinner parties • Meal prep and batch cooking Simply follow these 4 simple steps for a stress free evening of cooking: 1. Enter the time you want to eat. 2. Add all your ingredients and their cooking times. 3. Click the create time plan button to see the start/finish times for each ingredient. 4. Create alerts so you don't miss a thing! Never juggle multiple timers again - CookingTimer ensures perfectly timed meals every time! Download now and take control of your kitchen.
Cook kitchen timers
Manage multiple cooking timers simultaneously with adjustable durations. Track title, set time, remaining time, and readiness for each dish. Functions independently on your Apple Watch.
- Run multiple timers simultaneously
- Adjust timer duration while running
- Display dish title, set time, and remaining time
- Set timers for hours, minutes, and seconds
- Preset customization for favorite dishes
- Apple Watch functionality
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With this kitchen timer app you can run multiple timers simultaneously and independently of each other. You can also easily shorten or prolong the timer while cooking. For each dish Cook will display the title, set time, remaining time and at what time the dish will be ready. Functions independently from your iPhone, so that you can set your Timers directly on your Watch! Cook is so easy and fast! • Tap a Preset or Recent and your timer starts running. • Customise the Presets with your favourite dishes. • Easily pause, resume, shorten or prolong the timer while cooking. • Cook displays the title, set time, remaining time and at what time the dish will be ready. • Set hours, minutes, seconds. Privacy Policy: https://www.devart.nl/cook/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cooking at 64% against Cook kitchen timers's 0%. Cooking also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 36 months). Cook kitchen timers's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Cooking is free to download; Cook kitchen timers costs $0.99 up front. Cooking sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Cook kitchen timers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cooking ships an update every 2 months, Cook kitchen timers every 36 months. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cooking | Cook kitchen timers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 36 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Richardson | Devart B.V. |
Customer experience
Cooking
Cook kitchen timers
In-app purchases
Cooking
- Go Ad Free$0.991 Month
Cook kitchen timers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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