Timer vs OrthoPMS Photos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer
This advanced timer allows for precise time management across various activities. Set multiple special events with customizable triggers like sounds, messages, or screen flashing. It's ideal for games, workouts, cooking, meditation, and any task requiring accurate timing, even when the app is in the background.
- Multiple complex timers simultaneously
- Scheduled event triggers (sounds, messages, photos)
- Customizable display modes (textual, graphical)
- Background operation with sound/message alerts
- Looping timers
- Delayed start and flexible stop time entry
- Screen blocking and flashlight alerts
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Build timers that guide you through every step. Hear the next stretching instruction, follow a cooking sequence, or alternate activity and rest—with spoken announcements, sounds and clear visual progress. Start with a ready-made preset, then adapt it to your routine. From a simple countdown to a workout with several stages, choose your cues and preview the sequence before you begin. Try the Stretching preset for an example with spoken guidance. HEAR WHAT COMES NEXT Create cues such as “Hold the stretch” or “Round 3 of 5.” Combine your own text with timer and event names, round numbers, elapsed or remaining time, and the current clock time. Choose a voice and delay speech to let an alarm sound first. Use the same text and variables in on-screen messages and notifications. SET THE PACE OF YOUR ROUTINE Build intervals for HIIT, Tabata, stretching, meditation or study breaks. You can also time turns in board games. • Choose a duration or a specific finish time, with an optional preparation delay. • Repeat for a set number of rounds or indefinitely. • Schedule cues at specific times of day, relative to the start or end, or at regular intervals. Use times or percentages—for example, a gong 30 seconds before the end or a tick every second. • Run an event every round, only the first or last, or a range such as rounds 3–5. End actions can run every round or only after the final one. SAVE IT ONCE, USE IT AGAIN Run several timers at once. Use events to control timers, display a timer or open a URL. Add, reorder and hide timers to keep the ones you need within reach. Save your setups as presets, organize them, and import or export them to reuse or share. SEE YOUR PROGRESS AT A GLANCE Display remaining time, elapsed time, the clock or graphical progress in two customizable areas. Switch to full screen for a larger view, in portrait or landscape. Keep track of the current round, dim the display for a less intrusive screen, and lock the controls while keeping the time visible. Choose whether to stop at the end or keep showing the time elapsed since finishing. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Choose bells, gongs and other alarms, or import and record your own sounds. Try Shepard tones: sequences that seem to rise or fall endlessly in pitch. Play a song from your music library, choose a random track from a playlist, or schedule music to stop. Prefer silent cues? Use on-screen messages, vibrations or a flashing screen. Customize colors and backgrounds, and search over 1,800 icons. On supported devices, you can also schedule photos or use the flashlight as a visual cue. In the background, scheduled notifications can display messages and play sounds. Snooze reminders directly from notifications, choose whether to show round and notification numbers, or tap to run your configured timer controls or open a URL. Spoken announcements and photos require Timer to stay open.
OrthoPMS Photos
This application provides orthodontic practice management tools for staff and patients. It allows staff to view office schedules and doctors to upload patient photos directly to their charts. Users can also easily access and view clinical orthodontic images.
- Practice schedule access by location
- Patient photo capture and upload
- View clinical ortho photos
- Patient chart integration
- Staff and patient access
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OrthoPMS is an innovative orthodontic practice management software for staff and patients. This application lets staff access office schedule based on practice location and also allows doctor to easily take patient photos and quickly upload them to the respective patients’ chart. This app also easily allows user to view clinical ortho photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: OrthoPMS Photos at Free against Timer's $3.99. OrthoPMS Photos also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 7 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Timer's advantage is ratings volume (222 vs 4) and chart position (#200 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
OrthoPMS Photos is free to download; Timer costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OrthoPMS Photos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timer has 222 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Timer ships an update every 7 months, OrthoPMS Photos every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer | OrthoPMS Photos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (222 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 222 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #200 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 14 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francis Bonnin | OrthoPMS |
Customer experience
Timer
OrthoPMS Photos
Bugs and requests
Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer randomly changing time during use
- Alarm not sounding when app is in background
- Screen dimming and locking issues
Requested features
4 requests- Multiple timers running concurrently
- Ability to save and share custom timer presets
- More vibration and sound alert options
- Improved background mode and iOS 4 support
OrthoPMS Photos
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Timer
No in-app purchases
OrthoPMS Photos
No in-app purchases
Questions
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