Time’s Up! vs TippyTalk Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
TippyTalk Mobile
This app facilitates two-way communication for individuals with speech and language disorders. It uses pictorial prompts to help users construct messages, which can then be read aloud or sent to friends and family who can respond with various media formats.
- Pictorial prompt communication
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Customizable illustrations
- Two-way communication with community
- Manager and TippyTalker modes
- Video, picture, audio, and text responses
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TippyTalk is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for people of all ages who have trouble speaking due to aphasia, nonverbal autism, stroke, apraxia, down syndrome, ALS and other speech and language disorders. Using TippyTalk, non-verbal and speech-impaired persons use pictorial prompts to send messages to friends and family on their mobile phones. They then respond with video, pictures, audio or text to be read aloud. TippyTalk is also a text-to-speech (TTS) app as messages can be read aloud to anyone in the room with them. TippyTalk is unique, affordable, and easy-to-use. A Manager (usually a parent or other family member) customizes the app with illustrations of the TippyTalker's favorite things, such as restaurants, toys, places, pets, foods, and activities. The TippyTalker selects illustrations to create a simple sentence. TippyTalk gives non-verbal or speech-impaired persons of all ages ("TippyTalkers") two-way communication with the world! The TIPPYTALK COMMUNITY mode is for the parent/family member helping the TippyTalker AND for the invited friends and family of the TippyTalker. The TIPPYTALKER mode is for the non-verbal or speech-impaired person. IF YOU WILL BE HELPING A TIPPYTALKER WITH THE APP, YOU ARE A MANAGER. To get started, download the free TippyTalk Mobile app. You might want to have the app on two devices: your own device and the TippyTalker’s. Purchase a subscription, set up the TippyTalker, then invite friends and family. After the app is set up: – Managers customize TippyTalker for the preferences of the TippyTalker. – Managers invite friends and family to the TippyTalker's Community. – On the iPad, tablet and now even on mobile phones, TippyTalkers create a simple sentence by selecting illustrations. These become a written message read aloud OR sent to a TippyTalker's private community member. – Community Members respond with text, video, or audio. *IF YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED TO MESSAGE WITH A TIPPYTALKER, YOU ARE A COMMUNITY MEMBER. Download this free TippyTalk Mobile app. You will be able to use this app upon accepting an invitation from a TippyTalk Manager. Receive and respond to messages on your smartphone. Send video, pictures, audio or text to be read aloud. If you wish to purchase a license, please review the End User License Agreement https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Time’s Up! at 84% against TippyTalk Mobile's 33%. Time’s Up! also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.8) and ratings volume (435 vs 11). TippyTalk Mobile's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Time’s Up! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TippyTalk Mobile sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Time’s Up! holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Time’s Up! has 435 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Time’s Up!'s written reviews are positive against 33% of TippyTalk Mobile's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time’s Up! | TippyTalk Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (435 ratings) — better | 2.8 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 435 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overdesigned, LLC | TippyTalk |
Customer experience
Time’s Up!
TippyTalk Mobile
Bugs and 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
TippyTalk Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Time’s Up!
- Time’s Up! Unlimited$5.99
TippyTalk Mobile
- 1 TippyTalker license Monthly14 Days trial$11.991 Month
- 2 TippyTalker licenses Monthly14 Days trial$23.991 Month
- 1 TippyTalker license Annual14 Days trial$119.991 Year
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- 2 TippyTalker licenses Annual14 Days trial$239.991 Year
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