Timer with Sections vs MultiTimer Plus
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.
MultiTimer Plus
Manage multiple countdown timers simultaneously with customizable names and alarm sounds. This app keeps track of your tasks even when running in the background, ensuring you're alerted when time is up.
- Run multiple timers concurrently
- Create up to 8 custom timers
- Assign unique names to timers
- Choose from 8 different alarm sounds
- Background operation support
- Wake-up device alerts
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This is the ideal timer app if you need a countdown timer that will countdown multiple timers at the same time. MultiTimer Plus allows you to run and reuse timers for anything happening in your life. You can create up to 8 different timers, which can run at the same time, and customize them by name. You can also choose 8 different alarm sounds. If MultiTimer Plus is in background, no problem. When you wake up your device you will see the correct time to the end of your task and, at the desired time, MultiTimer Plus will warn you, even if it is running in background.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Timer with Sections at 90% against MultiTimer Plus's 0%. Timer with Sections also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 20 months). On 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
Timer with Sections costs $1.99 and MultiTimer Plus $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Timer with Sections holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timer with Sections has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Timer with Sections's written reviews are positive against 0% of MultiTimer Plus's.
Timer with Sections ships an update every 2 weeks, MultiTimer Plus every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer with Sections | MultiTimer Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (20 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Fries | Paulo Correia |
Customer experience
Timer with Sections
MultiTimer Plus
In-app purchases
Timer with Sections
No in-app purchases
MultiTimer Plus
No in-app purchases
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