Kitchen Timer vs Multiple Simple Timers+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kitchen Timer
This app provides a simple yet multifunctional kitchen timer with customizable alarms and notifications. It offers features like quick start, tenkey time input, and background operation, all for free.
- Quick start functionality
- Tenkey time input
- Customizable alarm sounds and volume
- Vibration and tactile feedback
- Background notifications
- Sleep disabled setting
- Dark mode
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It's a simple & multifunctional kitchen timer app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Quick start - Time input by tenkey - Alarm sound, volume, repeat, automatic stop - Vibration - Background notifications, repeats, intervals - Button tap sound, volume, tactile feedback - Color (background, font) - Sleep disabled setting (timer is running) - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: kitchentimer://
Multiple Simple Timers+
Manage multiple countdowns simultaneously for tasks like cooking, studying, or workouts. Assign names to each timer and let them run sequentially, ensuring you stay on track with all your time-sensitive activities.
- Simultaneous timer management
- Customizable timer names
- Sequential timer operation
- Easy-to-use interface
- Versatile for various activities
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Difficult recipes needing more than one timer? Different time sets during fitness? Studying for exams, or lost that time tracker from your favorite board game again? Put all of your different time trackers in one place with this app: easy, accessible without any hassle! Give each timer a name, set your time and go from there! The timers will go off one by one at your set-time. Use your timers during cooking, sports, studies, work, or whenever you need a quick reminder to finish that one last task before you leave the door. Everything is possible!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Multiple Simple Timers+ at none against Kitchen Timer's shown. Multiple Simple Timers+ also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Kitchen Timer's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kitchen Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Kitchen Timer ships an update every 6 weeks, Multiple Simple Timers+ every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kitchen Timer | Multiple Simple Timers+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (23 ratings) — better | 4.4 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Robin van Eck van der Sluijs |
Customer experience
Kitchen Timer
Multiple Simple Timers+
In-app purchases
Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
Multiple Simple Timers+
No in-app purchases
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