Cooking vs Tiny Roast Timer
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.
Tiny Roast Timer
This app helps you perfectly time your roasts by calculating cooking durations based on meat type and weight. You can set a desired finish time and receive notifications for key cooking stages.
- Select meat type (chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, pork)
- Input roast weight for accurate timing
- Calculate cooking duration
- Set desired finish time
- Receive cooking stage notifications
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A tiny little timer for timing your turkey.... and other roasts too. Set the meat you're cooking (chicken, turkey, lamb, beef or pork) and the weight and Tiny Turkey Timer tells you how long it's going to take. Set the time you'd like to finish and it'll notify you when things need doing. Thanks to Marshal Mallow for the app icon (@MarshalMallow6 on twitter).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cooking at Free against Tiny Roast Timer's $0.99. Cooking also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (64% vs 50%). Tiny Roast Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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; Tiny Roast Timer costs $0.99 up front. Cooking sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Tiny Roast Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cooking ships an update every 2 months, Tiny Roast Timer every 7 months. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Cooking | Tiny Roast Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Richardson | IAN CLARK |
Customer experience
Cooking
Tiny Roast Timer
In-app purchases
Cooking
- Go Ad Free$0.991 Month
Tiny Roast Timer
No in-app purchases
