Comparison

Random Timer Generator vs Fingertips

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Random Timer Generator

This app generates random countdown timers within a specified time range. It's versatile for games, meditation, exercise, studying, and more. Customize sounds, vibrations, and looping modes for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Configurable random countdowns
  • Adjustable time ranges (0 seconds to 24 hours)
  • Background operation support
  • Customizable sound and vibration alerts
  • Upload custom alarm sounds
  • Looping mode with break periods
  • Progress tracking for loops
Features
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Random Timer Generator is a random countdown timer that allows you to input a Minimum and Maximum time, and then it will start a random timer somewhere within that range. Random Timer Generator allows you to create random timer countdowns, which makes it great as an exercise timer, a meditation timer, a random timer for studying, a Musical Chairs timer, or as a timer for Hot Potato style games like Catch Phrase, The Last Word, Pass The Bomb... or Hot Potato. ************************************ FEATURES * Fully configurable random countdowns with adjustable seconds, minutes, and hours * Supports timer durations from 0 seconds to 24 hours * The timer and alarm will still run properly even if your screen is locked or you have another app open * Enable or disable countdown noise options * Enable or disable vibrations when the timer ends * Enable or disable showing how much time is left while the random timer is going * Sounds an alarm when the timer hits 0. Choose from different alarm noise options, or go silent with vibrate-only option * Upload your own sound or song as the countdown sound, the sound when timer ends, or the sound when break period ends * Animates and vibrates when going off, so you'll notice the timer expiring in a noisy situation * Looping mode - set a random timer to go off repeatedly, so the next random timer starts again after one ends. You can even add a "break period between random timers", where you can set how many seconds you'd like as a break between random timers when Loop mode is on. * If Looping mode is on, it will tell you how many loops you have completed ************************************ Random Timer Generator is great for: * Games There are many Hot Potato style games where you don't want to be the person holding the ball (or potato) when the random timer goes off. Random Timer Generator works great for these Hot Potato style games, such as Catch Phrase, The Last Word, Pass The Bomb... or Hot Potato. Also great for board games where you need a random timer * Meditation When meditating, you may want to set a timer... but not know exactly when that timer will end (for example, a random timer that will go off somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes). Random Timer Generator works great for that. * Exercise While exercising, you may want to have a random timer for doing certain exercises, but not know exactly how long you will need to do it for. For example, you could set a minimum of 15 seconds and a maximum of 60 seconds while holding a forearm plank. * Musical Chairs With Random Timer Generator, you can set a random timer (for example between 5 seconds and 30 seconds) to go off for playing Musical Chairs. You can even have it playing songs while the timer is counting down. * Studying Andrew Huberman has popularized the Gap Effect or Spacing Effect method of studying, where you have a random timer go off every now and then while studying, to give yourself a short break. During that break, your brain replays what you were just learning at hyper speed.

About

Fingertips

Features
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Switch to the Fingertips keyboard and tap. The snippet is typed straight into whatever app you are in - no copying, no app switching, no losing your place. On iPad, keep Fingertips open beside your work and drag snippets straight across into what you are writing. Fingertips keeps the text, images and files you send over and over - your signature, your address, the paragraph you rewrite every week - in one place, and hands them back wherever you are typing. FINDS WHAT YOU SAVED Type a few letters and the right snippet is already at the top. Five thousand snippets stay fast, because the speed budgets were written down before the first line of code. UNDERSTANDS WHAT YOU SAVED Save a screenshot and find it later by a word that only appears inside the image. Titles and tags are suggested for you. All of it runs on your device using Apple's own on-device models - nothing is sent away to be read. TEMPLATES THAT ASK A snippet can have named blanks. Use it and Fingertips asks for the two things that change, then fills in the rest. Dates and the current clipboard fill themselves in. BUNDLES Select a cover note, a PDF and your signature and make them one bundle. Copy it and all of it goes at once. Where only one thing can be pasted at a time, step through it item by item, in the app or from the Fingertips keyboard on iPhone and iPad. FORMATTING THAT STAYS Bold, italics and links are kept, and paste formatted wherever formatting is accepted. Remove Formatting turns a snippet back into plain text. KEEPS ITSELF TIDY Folders, tags and smart shelves. Drag a snippet onto a folder to file it, or select several and pin, tag, move or copy them together. Deleting puts a snippet in the trash for thirty days, because this is where people keep the only copy of something they wrote once. BRING WHAT YOU HAVE Moving from TextExpander, Raycast or Alfred, or from your text replacements? Import the snippets you exported, abbreviations and fill-ins included. Each import is tagged with the app it came from, and one Undo takes it back. EVERYWHERE YOU WORK Widgets put the snippets you pick one tap away, or the ones you use most if you would rather not choose. Spotlight searches them. Shortcuts and App Intents can reach every text snippet and link, so your automations can use them too. YOURS, NOT OURS Your snippets sync between your devices through your own private iCloud database. That is your Apple Account - there is no Fingertips account to sign up for, no server of ours holding your data, and no advertising or analytics tracking. We never see your snippets and could not read them if we tried. WHAT IT COSTS Free for fourteen days with nothing held back. Then $9.99 once, covering Mac, iPad and iPhone forever. No subscription. A NOTE ON THE KEYBOARD The Fingertips keyboard asks for Full Access, and the reason is dull: without it a keyboard extension cannot read the snippets the app saved for it. It is not permission to watch you type. Nothing you type is logged, stored or sent anywhere.

Screenshots

Random Timer Generator4 screens
Fingertips4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fingertips at every 6 days against Random Timer Generator's every 2 months. Random Timer Generator's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Random Timer Generator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fingertips sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Random Timer Generator ships an update every 2 months, Fingertips every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Random Timer Generator versus Fingertips: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRandom Timer GeneratorFingertips
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (56 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings56 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOneUp App LLCPETER DONGO

Bugs and requests

Random Timer Generator

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App consumed most battery without usage
  • Counter freezes at random times
  • Notifications (sound/iWatch) stop working after a short period
  • Custom sounds are cut off when looping and using breaks
  • Alarm always includes vibrate, no sound alone option
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  • App forces portrait mode, removing split view support
  • Volume changes on its own
  • Alarm sound plays something different than selected

Requested features

10 requests
  • Make counts/reps font bigger
  • Allow setting 'active hours' for timer
  • Option for 'weekdays only' timer scheduling
  • Save and name various timers and settings
  • Upload, delete, and select among multiple sounds
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  • Display completed time until next timer starts
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Dark mode option
  • Improve sound cutting off with custom sounds and looping
  • Option for sound alone alarm without vibrate

Fingertips

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Random Timer Generator

One-time1
  • Lifetime access$7.99
1 purchases

Fingertips

One-time1
  • Fingertips Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Random Timer Generator free?
Random Timer Generator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fingertips free?
Fingertips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Random Timer Generator or Fingertips have ads?
Neither Random Timer Generator nor Fingertips shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Random Timer Generator or Fingertips?
Random Timer Generator ships an update every 2 months, and Fingertips every 6 days. Most recently, Random Timer Generator was updated on October 7, 2026 and Fingertips on October 14, 2026.

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