Comparison

Timer with Sections vs Notes n More

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Notes n More

Organize daily tasks, rich notes, voice memos, and freehand scribbles in one app. Save internet files, pictures, and videos, all synchronized with iCloud. Group related items into collections for efficient management of projects, trips, or events.

Highlights
  • Daily task management
  • Richly formatted notes
  • Voice memo recording
  • Freehand scribbles and annotations
  • Save internet files and web pages
  • Organize with collections
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Stream of thoughts in your mind? Quickly chat them out with notes, scribbles, capture any photos or record voice memos in a familiar chat like interface. Quick Notes ------------ Write down your thoughts like typing a chat message. Expand on these later with a full editor. Scribble Something ------------------- Draw with your finger or Pencil and jot it down before you lose your thought. Capture a Photo ---------------- Remind yourself of the surroundings that brought the thought in your mind with a quick photo capture. Speak it -------- Quickly capture voice memos or record the conversation that spurred the thought. Better yet, start a voice memo and jot down notes, capture photos or scribble while the voice memo gets recorded. Categorize ----------- Categorize your streams easily. Keep it Synced --------------- Anything you capture is stored in your private iCloud account not accessible to the app developer.

Screenshots

Timer with Sections4 screens
Notes n More4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Timer with Sections at 90% against Notes n More's 41%. Timer with Sections also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Notes n More's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Notes n More is free to download; Timer with Sections costs $1.99 up front. Notes n More sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timer with Sections asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timer with Sections holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. 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 41% of Notes n More's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timer with Sections ships an update every 2 weeks, Notes n More every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Timer with Sections versus Notes n More: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimer with SectionsNotes n More
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (20 ratings) — better2.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews89.6% of reviews — better41.5% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB10 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperChristian FriesAashish Patil

Customer experience

Timer with Sections

All ratings20 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.0%

Notes n More

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive41.5%
Neutral14.9%
Negative43.6%

In-app purchases

None

Timer with Sections

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Notes n More

One-time1
  • Notes n More$1.99

Questions

Is Timer with Sections free?
Timer with Sections costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notes n More free?
Notes n More is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timer with Sections or Notes n More?
Timer with Sections is rated higher. Timer with Sections averages 4.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Notes n More averages 2.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Timer with Sections or Notes n More have ads?
Neither Timer with Sections nor Notes n More shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timer with Sections or Notes n More?
Timer with Sections ships an update every 2 weeks, and Notes n More every 5 weeks. Most recently, Timer with Sections was updated on October 31, 2026 and Notes n More on October 31, 2026.

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