Buyam vs Timway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buyam
This platform facilitates online buying and selling by enabling direct chat between buyers and vendors. Users can negotiate prices, replicating the in-person market experience. It aims to offer a more personal and interactive e-commerce environment.
- Direct buyer-vendor chat
- Price negotiation
- Face-to-face market experience
- Online buying and selling
- Interactive e-commerce
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Buyam is an online market with the sole objective of giving buyers that exact experience and feeling they get when buying directly (face-to-face) from a market or shop by allowing them to chat with the vendor thereby negotiating the price of the product and both parties coming to an agreement. This feature of allowing buyers negotiate price of items they normally do in a market is what makes Buyam different from all other existing e-commerce applications.
Timway
This app provides a logistics service for same-city and intercity deliveries in Douala, Cameroon. It connects users with drivers for various items, offering real-time tracking and transparent pricing for a reliable transport experience.
- Same-city deliveries
- Intercity transport booking
- Real-time tracking
- Clear pricing
- Trusted drivers
- Parcel and food delivery
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Tim Way is your fast, reliable logistics partner in Douala, Cameroon. We connect you with trusted drivers for same-city deliveries—documents, parcels, food, and more—with real-time tracking and clear pricing. Need to go farther? Book intercity transport in the app: choose your route, pick a vehicle option that fits your trip, and travel or send items between cities with the same focus on safety, punctuality, and transparency.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Timway at 5.0 against Buyam's 4.4. Buyam's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Timway holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buyam has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Buyam ships an update every 2 weeks, Timway every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buyam | Timway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AfroVisioN Group Ltd | AfroVisioN Group Ltd |
Customer experience
Buyam
Timway
In-app purchases
Buyam
No in-app purchases
Timway
No in-app purchases
