Timer with Sections vs Flip Timer & stopwatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer with Sections
This app helps you manage time during performances by dividing it into customizable sections. It visually displays elapsed and remaining time for both individual sections and the entire event, with options to adjust timing on the fly.
- Structure time into sections
- Intuitive time visualization
- Adjust schedule during performance
- Pause, skip, or reset sections
- Alarm option for section ends
- Log finished performance data
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The 'Timer with Sections' supports you during your performance (e.g., a talk or keynote speech, a seminar or lecture, a workout) by providing intuitively visualized timing information. It allows you to structure time into 'sections'. [ Demo video available at: http://tinyurl.com/iphonetimer ] During your performance, you can easily adjust the schedule by moving time across sections, with a swipe gesture (e.g., when feedback from the audience requires you to skip or intensify a section of your performance) or by pressing the pause button (e.g., when answering a question from the audience requires some extra time). Features: Structuring a Performance: Available time can be divided into sections. Visualization of Time: The performance assistant view intuitively visualizes the remaining and elapsed time, both for the current section and the whole performance. Elapsed time is depicted in red, remaining time in green. An inner disc represents the used and remaining time for the current section. The section title is displayed in the center. An outer ring represents the used and remaining time for the whole performance. The segments of the ring represent the individual sections. Paused time (see below on the concept of pause) will is depicted in dark red. Extra time obtained by skipping parts of a section (see below on the concept of skipping) will be depicted in dark green. Alarm Option: Optionally, you can set an alarm at the end of each section. If set a short tick sound will signal the end of a section. Note: The iPhone will vibrate if you have configured "vibrate" in its sound setup. Managing Time during a Performance: Except for the stop-button you cannot interrupt, pause, extend or shorten a running performance. However, there are advanced possibilities to flexibly adjust the length of a section during a running performance, by moving time among sections. For example, your performance could have a section containing additional results which you might want to shorten or skip in favour of extending another section. There are three ways of altering the planned schedule during a running performance: * Pausing: Holding time for the current section, by shortening a later one. * Skipping: Skipping remaining time of the current section, by extending a later section. * Resetting: Setting elapsed time to zero for the current section, by shortening a later section. Leaving the Application: If you leave the performance assistant view or even the application, then the timer continues to count down. If you return to the performance assistant view, it will recover its previous state, including the elapsed time. If the performance assistant view is interrupted by pressing the home button or an incoming call, then a running performance is automatically switched to 'pause'. Logging a Finished Performance: Upon finishing a performance, you are asked if you like to log that performance. If you log the performance, then data as the actual time run or skipped is stored for each section. This allows you to analyse your performance and hence adjust and improve your schedule. A log of a performance can be viewed at any later time. It can be exported via email. Tips: Rehearsal: If you are creating a new performance, you should use Performance Assistant in a rehearsal. Then analysing your time requirements by checking the log file. Buffer Time: Consider adding a shrinkable section with optional topics or just a general discussion sections towards the end of your performance such that it can serve as a buffer. Note that you can pause a section only if such a buffer exits.
Flip Timer & stopwatch
This app offers a full-screen digital timer with a unique flip animation to visualize time progression. It also includes a stopwatch for tracking activities like workouts, study sessions, and work. Customize reminder sounds and background audio for an immersive experience.
- Full-screen digital timer
- Flip animation for time visualization
- Countdown timer
- Stopwatch functionality
- Customizable reminder sounds
- Background sound options
- Keep screen on for progress viewing
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Flip Timer, A full-screen digital timer. Countdown, flip animation allows you to feel the passage of time; Stopwatch, record your sport, fitness, work, study and so on. - Swipe up or slide down to set the countdown duration - you can set up timed reminder sound - Focus on the work, you can set the background sound, so you immersed them. - Keep the screen on, You can view the progress of time at any time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Flip Timer & stopwatch at Free against Timer with Sections's $1.99. Flip Timer & stopwatch also leads on ratings volume (7.6K vs 20). Timer with Sections's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On rating 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
Flip Timer & stopwatch is free to download; Timer with Sections costs $1.99 up front. Flip Timer & stopwatch sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Timer with Sections asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Timer with Sections against 4.6 for Flip Timer & stopwatch. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flip Timer & stopwatch has 7.6K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Timer with Sections's written reviews are positive against 69% of Flip Timer & stopwatch's.
Timer with Sections ships an update every 2 weeks, Flip Timer & stopwatch every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer with Sections | Flip Timer & stopwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (20 ratings) | 4.6 (7.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.6% of reviews — better | 68.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 7.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #200 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Fries | 俐 马 |
Customer experience
Timer with Sections
Flip Timer & stopwatch
Bugs and requests
Timer with Sections
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Flip Timer & stopwatch
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer randomly stops counting down
- Unable to stop/reset timer once started
- Ads prevent user from interacting with timer
Requested features
4 requests- Add option to set timer in hours/minutes/seconds
- Implement repeat/loop functionality for timer
- Allow custom alarm/notification sounds
- Improve landscape mode support
In-app purchases
Timer with Sections
No in-app purchases
Flip Timer & stopwatch
- Remove Ads$0.99
- All the skins$0.99
- Pro Version$1.99
Questions
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Is Flip Timer & stopwatch free?
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