Comparison

Outloud Treasure Timer vs Time’s Up!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Outloud Treasure Timer

Features
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Treasure Timer is an easy and fun app for setting time limits to children and visualizing the flow of time. Timer helps kids to focus on the task in hand, prepare for transitions and perceive how much time is left to use. Set a time limit and let the child visualize the flow of time by drawing a path for a penguin to search for hidden treasures on a tropical island. Treasure Timer is a part of Outloud Timer app family. It includes many new features, like 3D graphics, several islands and a possibility to gain decorative items with coins found in the treasure chests.

About

Time’s Up!

This app offers a fun and engaging way to track time with visually appealing countdowns. It's perfect for managing tasks, study sessions, or bedtime routines for both children and adults. Choose from unique visual styles or traditional clocks, and customize alerts for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown styles (Reveal, Pixelate, Puzzle)
  • Customizable alert sounds and colors
  • iCloud timer syncing across devices
  • Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
  • Guided Access for child lock
  • AirPlay and tvOS support for TV display
  • Minute-by-minute audio updates
Features
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Time’s Up! is a fun, visual timer that you’ll actually want to use. Whether it’s for you, your kids, or someone else, Time’s Up! will make counting down much more engaging. Timers can be used at work and at home, whether you’re making sure you take a break or telling kids it’s bedtime.  Timers exist everywhere, but none of them are fun and visually appealing — and that can be important when you’re dealing with kids big and small! Time’s Up! has the features you need to make time fun again — try it for free, NO ADS. Time’s Up! isn’t just for kids and workaholics, though. The possibilities are endless: • Adults who need to set timers to stop them from working for too long without a break. • Kids who don’t want to do their homework but can be convinced to work in smaller chunks. • Setting reading or other activity timers before bed time. • Helping bigger kids focus on an activity for a set amount of time. • Setting timers for exercises — put Time’s Up! on your TV screen using AirPlay and turn a timer into the focal point for your exercise group. • Anything that’s based on a specific amount of time! What makes a timer fun? Time’s Up! has 5 fun styles to choose from, including:  • “Reveal” a photo from your Photo Library as the seconds tick down.  • “Pixelate” makes a photo more clear as a timer gets closer to completion. • “Puzzle” breaks a photo into jigsaw puzzle pieces and then puts the pieces into their places as time progresses. Alternatively, there are more traditional clock faces if you just want a simple timer. Timers can be customized with their own alert sound and color, too. Other key features include: • Sync your timers between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV using iCloud. • See your timers on your Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Apple Watch with Live Activities (requires iOS 18). • Guided Access to prevent kids from switching apps and changing timers, making sure only you have the power to control time. • Airplay and tvOS support so you can put a timer up on a TV screen. • Get audio updates each minute or countdown the last 10 seconds. • On macOS, you can float the timer window above other apps so it’s always visible. Time’s Up! is a free download with a trial limit of five countdowns. After that, there is a small one-time purchase that unlocks the app on all your devices, forever. ——————— What’s the difference between “Time’s Up! — Visual Timer” and “Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)”? You are looking at the free-to-download version of Time’s Up! that lets you try the app five times before upgrading via in-app purchase. “Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)” is the same app but available paid-upfront with no limits in the app itself. “Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)” exists so educators can purchase the app through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program (VPP) for Education. ——————— Time’s Up! has no ads or data trackers. We believe your data is your own and we don’t collect any of it.

Screenshots

Outloud Treasure Timer4 screens
Time’s Up!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Time’s Up! at Free against Outloud Treasure Timer's $0.99. Time’s Up! also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 41 months) and device support (5 vs 3). Outloud Treasure Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.4). On ads 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

Time’s Up! is free to download; Outloud Treasure Timer costs $0.99 up front. Time’s Up! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Outloud Treasure Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Outloud Treasure Timer ships an update every 41 months, Time’s Up! every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Outloud Treasure Timer versus Time’s Up!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOutloud Treasure TimerTime’s Up!
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.6 (435 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—84.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—435 — better
Update frequencyEvery 41 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOutloudOverdesigned, LLC

Bugs and requests

Outloud Treasure Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Time’s Up!

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Hotkey functionality broken after update
  • Timer not working after app update
  • No sound at the end of timer

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow longer timer durations
  • Add ability to set multiple timers
  • Improve customization options
  • Provide more sound/alert options
  • Add child-proof timer lock feature

In-app purchases

None

Outloud Treasure Timer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Time’s Up!

One-time1
  • Time’s Up! Unlimited$5.99

Questions

Is Outloud Treasure Timer free?
Outloud Treasure Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time’s Up! free?
Time’s Up! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Outloud Treasure Timer or Time’s Up! have ads?
Neither Outloud Treasure Timer nor Time’s Up! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Outloud Treasure Timer or Time’s Up!?
Outloud Treasure Timer ships an update every 41 months, and Time’s Up! every 6 weeks. Most recently, Outloud Treasure Timer was updated on September 19, 2026 and Time’s Up! on October 1, 2026.

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