Comparison

Timer vs Timers!

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 relative to the start or end, as a time or a percentage, or at regular intervals—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. 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 notification sounds. Spoken announcements, photos and other interactive actions require Timer to stay open.

About

Timers!

This utility allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous timers, perfect for timing multiple tasks at once. It offers an intuitive interface with a dial in landscape and a digital display in portrait mode for easy time setting.

Highlights
  • Unlimited simultaneous timers
  • Intuitive dial interface (landscape)
  • Digital display interface (portrait)
  • Customizable timer names
  • Timer status icons
  • Simple time scale selection
Features
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An app that allows a very large (effectively unlimited) number of timers to run simultaneously. Time multiple cooking pots, time the glue drying time, time the developing of a photographic print, time a time-out, time a turn in Pictionary, time a test, time the breaks between tests when you're a proctor, time a time-out, time a turn in a debate. Time anything! The app uses a dial when the device is in landscape and a digital display in portrait. A timer is very simple to set -- in landscape you touch the dial and drag the dial to the time you want. No longer do you need to scroll through a picker where you can only see several lines. If the devices is in portrait then you touch the digital display and select the time by scrolling through the digits. Creating a new timer is a simple matter of touching a button and then selecting the time scale. You can also rename the new timer and change the order of the timers in the list. A simple, intuitive icon in the list show if the timer is running and what percentage of the time is left. Great for busy cooks, hobbyists, and anybody who needs to time stuff. See the support site at https://sites.google.com/site/dlkssoftware/timers-for-ios for more information and help. Supports all iOS devices running iOS 8 and later.

Screenshots

Timer4 screens
Timers!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Timer at 4.8 against Timers!'s 1.0. Timer also leads on ratings volume (221 vs 1). Timers!'s advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and price ($0.99 vs $3.99). On update cadence, 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

Timer costs $3.99 and Timers! $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timer has 221 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Timers!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timer ships an update every 7 months, Timers! every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Timer versus Timers!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimerTimers!
Price$3.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.8 (221 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews80.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings221 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1312.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancis BonninDonald King

Customer experience

Timer

All ratings221 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews242 reviews
Positive80.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative10.7%

Timers!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Timers!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Timers!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timer free?
Timer costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timers! free?
Timers! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Timer or Timers!?
Timer is rated higher. Timer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 221 ratings, while Timers! averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Timer or Timers! have ads?
Neither Timer nor Timers! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timer or Timers!?
Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Timers! every 6 months. Most recently, Timer was updated on October 5, 2026 and Timers! on September 19, 2026.

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