Timer vs Pace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer
This app provides a simple timer for meditation, yoga, and sleep. It offers customizable vibrations and sounds at set intervals and can run in the background. Its user-friendly design makes it easy to navigate during practice.
- Meditation timer
- Yoga timer
- Sleep timer
- Background operation
- Customizable vibrations
- Interval sounds
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It is a timer that helps your meditation, yoga, and sleeping. It gives you vibrations and sounds every 30 seconds and can be used in the background. The design is easy to use.
Pace
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Pace is a simple workout timer for the gym and at home. TIMERS • Countdown timer with your own presets • Stopwatch • Tabata: work and rest rounds • EMOM: every minute on the minute WORKOUTS • Build workouts from intervals and rounds, then run them start to finish • A lead-in countdown before each timer starts • The screen stays awake while a timer runs YOUR WAY • Light, dark or match your phone • Pick the colors for each timer PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking • Everything stays on your phone
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pace at 5.0 against Timer's 1.0. Pace also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Pace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Timer ships an update fortnightly, Pace every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer | Pace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | won jun lee | Stephen Hogdahl |
Customer experience
Timer
Pace
In-app purchases
Timer
No in-app purchases
Pace
No in-app purchases
