Cucumber Timer vs Days Elapsed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cucumber Timer
This app helps users focus on tasks and manage breaks effectively using a visual timer. It offers customizable intervals, intuitive time displays, and battery-saving features to enhance productivity and prevent burnout.
- Customizable focus and break intervals
- Intuitive visual time display
- Adjustable intervals on the go
- Customizable display themes and brightness
- Minimal battery consumption
- Choice of notification sounds or vibration
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-- Is this app for me? -- Students, software developers, writers, artists — anyone with a todo list. Cucumber Timer is for those who want to achieve their daily goals regularly. Set a rhythm of focused work and regular breaks so you get more done while saving your energy. With a non-distracting overview of elapsed and remaining time, Cucumber Timer helps you stay motivated, avoid distractions, and avoid sitting too long without a break. -- No ads -- Cucumber Timer helps you concentrate on what's important to you. Feature-rich for free: you can adjust focus and break intervals to reflect your preferences. Extra customization can be unlocked with a one-time payment: beautiful themes, specially recorded sounds, and a fixed brightness setting that helps the battery last longer. -- Adjust on the go -- Adjust remaining interval with 2 taps any time without affecting your usual settings. Sometimes you might have less time than usual, say you prefer to work for 25 minutes but now have just 10 before an appointment. Or perhaps you're feeling especially focused and would like to sit undisturbed for a longer time than usual. You can either select a new duration of the current interval (e.g., 20 minutes) or end time (finish at 15:30). -- Intuitive visual time -- The interval rings make the current time immediately recognizable. You already have an intuitive feel for how many minutes a portion of a watch face represents — a quarter of an hour is a quarter of the circle, no counting needed. -- Customize display -- 8 beautiful dark color themes that are non-distracting, visually balanced, and readable. Choose to keep the screen always on as a reminder that you're focusing. Lower the brightness to make the battery last longer — or to stay discreet on your desk in an office or library. The in-app brightness slider holds your chosen level whenever Cucumber Timer is in the foreground, so you don't have to adjust it by hand each time. -- Save battery -- Minimal battery use in the foreground; none in the background. When you start an interval, Cucumber Timer schedules notifications for upcoming focus and break intervals — no code running in the background to drain your battery. -- Choose sounds -- Choose whether the app plays a sound, vibrates, or stays silent when an interval starts. 19 unique sounds recorded specifically for Cucumber Timer.
Days Elapsed
Easily track the number of days since any important event. This app offers a clean, ad-free experience with no in-app purchases or notifications. Manage your events by creating, deleting, and viewing them with their elapsed days.
- Track days since any event
- Create and delete events
- View elapsed days for each event
- Ad-free experience
- No in-app purchases
- No notifications
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With Days Elapsed, you can keep track of the number of days elapsed since an arbitrary event—anything from the last time you went to the gym to the last time you called your friend. There are no ads, in-app purchases, or notifications—in other words, no clutter, no gimmicks. Core features include: - Create account/login - Add new event - Delete existing event - View events and the days elapsed for each event
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Days Elapsed at none against Cucumber Timer's 1. Days Elapsed also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and 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
Both are free to download. Cucumber Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Days Elapsed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cucumber Timer ships an update every 9 days, Days Elapsed every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cucumber Timer | Days Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Serdiuk | Alex Yeo |
Customer experience
Cucumber Timer
Days Elapsed
In-app purchases
Cucumber Timer
- Full Version$3.99
Days Elapsed
No in-app purchases









