Comparison

PokerTimer vs Blinds Up

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

Head to head
About

PokerTimer

Manage your poker tournament blinds and breaks with this elegant and simple clock. Focus on your game with a clear, minimalist display that shows essential information without distractions. Easily customize blind structures and enjoy a smooth tournament experience.

Highlights
  • Blind structure setup
  • Break timer
  • Minimalist display
  • Sound and vibrate alerts
  • Edit blind structure
  • Display next level
  • Share structure files
Features
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Add a touch of class for FREE to your next poker tournament. This simple poker clock allows you to easily setup your blind structure and worry more about your cards over keeping track of the blinds. We don't try to show you too much or do too much. Look at the screen and see what you need to see, no extra graphics or horrible formatting. We do just what you need to run your tournament effectively without gimmicks getting in the way. One of the most popular Poker Clocks in the AppStore. See why PokerTimer is used in thousands of tournaments by hundreds of thousands of players. • Beautiful glossy minimalist display • Show blinds, antes, and breaks • Two sound choices and vibrate for iPhone • Quickly add to or edit your blind structure • Pause at level end option • Option to keep system awake • Display Next Level • Share a structure file(compatible with Mac Version). • Display the timer with Airplay Mirroring on compatible TV devices. • Universal Support • Oh, and it's FREE! If you like the app, upgrade to the Pro Version for even more. It adds: • Unlimited Structures • Speech Announcements • Global Chip Color Display • Background Colors • Icon Choices • Custom Sound Option • Hand Timer • Average Stack View • No Ads --------------------------- If you are enjoying the product please help us by giving us a good rating or review and get our rating up where it should be. We are known to address problems right away so please contact us directly if you see anything wrong. We have tested and used this App to run over 100 tournaments ourselves. We know you will agree that this is the most solid poker timer on the iOS market. --------------------------- • Let's play some poker! • New Version 3.0! Don't worry we didn't do too much tinkering, the app has been 'timeless' since it's release in 2010, and we know it still looks and works great. So we just made sure it works perfectly on the newest devices, and added some great new options.

About

Blinds Up

Manage all aspects of your poker tournaments, from structure and player management to prize pool calculation and sound effects. Track player statistics and championship rankings. Customize your game screen and sync data across devices.

Highlights
  • Rebuy and addon management
  • Structure generation and customization
  • Player and table management
  • Automatic prize pool calculation
  • Integrated sound effects and text-to-speech
  • Customizable game screen
  • Championship and ranking management
Features
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With Blinds Up, you can manage all aspects of your poker tournaments: - Lot of features like rebuys and addons management, bounties… - Complete management of the structure, you can add round by round or generate instantly a structure through our structure generator. You can of course include breaks, chip races, etc. - Management of players and tables, with the random placement of players, tables balancing, the ability to print a list of the tables, to choose the order of tables closing, and more. - Prize pool can be calculated automatically by our system, or it can be set manually, with prizes based on percentages of the total Prizepool or fixed amounts. You can also manage non-monetary prizes. - Management of chips with the calculation of quantities needed for your tourney, and you can display chips on the game screen for players, etc. - Sound management with integrated sound effects to report events (player busted out, player moving, level ending, new round starting, etc). The announcements of tournament events (blind increases, breaks, etc.) are handled by our powerful text-to-speech system. You can even set yourself the text that the voice will say! - Full customization of your game screen, you can drag elements, change their size, color, font ... everything is customizable, and you can define different game screens depending on the moment go the game (round, break, bust, etc). And for those who want to save time, you can download 20 predefined skins. - The game screen can be displayed on the iPad, but it can also be exported to an external monitor (requires lightning/hdmi adapter or Apple TV). You can manage aspects of your tournament without clutter the display of the game screen to your players! Blinds Up but goes further that the management of a tournament ... - You can attach a tournament to a championship, and thus manage a ranking based on the results of several cumulative tournaments! With calculating points, itm, wins, etc. Rankings can also be exported to Excel directly from the application. - You can view detailed statistics about the players who are the sharks, who are the fish ... which players are most often ITM ... You will know everything through Blinds Up. - You can manage your chipsets, to change quantities and use one or the other of your sets according to the tournaments you are organizing. - All your data is synced live through your Blinds Up account, so you can retrieve all your data on all your iOS devices (requires iCloud). Blinds Up Premium: Please note that the application has limitations, thanks to the premium subscription, you can unlock additional features! The preset structures and predefined skins are part of the premium subscription, it cannot be downloaded separately. Current price for the Blinds Up Premium subscription varies based on the length of your auto-renewing subscriptions and may vary from country to country. For 1-month renewals, price is $9.99 USD per month per pay period, for 1-year renewals, price is $99.99 USD per year per pay period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of Use: https://blindsup.app/terms Privacy policy: https://blindsup.app/privacy We hope you take as much pleasure to use Blinds Up that we took to develop it! If you have questions, ask it on: X: https://x.com/BlindsUpPoker Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlindsUpPoker

Screenshots

PokerTimer4 screens
Blinds Up4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PokerTimer at 4.7 against Blinds Up's 3.3. PokerTimer also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 51%) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 126). Blinds Up's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. PokerTimer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Blinds Up sells 30 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PokerTimer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PokerTimer has 1.3K ratings behind it against 126, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of PokerTimer's written reviews are positive against 51% of Blinds Up's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PokerTimer ships an update every 3 months, Blinds Up monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PokerTimer versus Blinds Up: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPokerTimerBlinds Up
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better3.3 (126 ratings)
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews — better51.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better126
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB103 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBirdsoft LLCJLBIZ

Customer experience

PokerTimer

All ratings1,282 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews257 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative15.6%

Blinds Up

All ratings126 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral4.8%
Negative39.7%
Written reviews162 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral7.4%
Negative41.4%

Bugs and requests

PokerTimer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Blinds Up

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Text input adds every letter and space multiple times
  • Background customization difficult and glitchy
  • App crashes when changing settings screens
  • App crashes when adding players
  • Login screen hangs and doesn't progress
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  • Password reset functionality broken
  • Premium features locked despite active subscription
  • Cannot connect to iTunes store error
  • Formula function fails when adding variables
  • Text boxes blackened and hard to see during setup
  • App closes every 3-5 minutes during use
  • Cannot edit tournament settings in free version
  • Settings click off immediately after single keystroke
  • Tournament won't end and clock continues running
  • Sounds and layouts not appearing or loading
  • Screen mirroring causes app crashes and data loss
  • Database migration on startup gets stuck at 0%
  • App won't display when connected to TV via HDMI
  • Sluggish and unresponsive after switching apps
  • Subscription renewal doesn't unlock premium features

Requested features

10 requests
  • Multi-device control and synchronization
  • Payment distribution calculator for tournament winners
  • Custom sound clip uploads
  • Improved formula editor for league calculations
  • Better in-app help documentation and tutorials
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  • Community forum for user support
  • Ability to control app from multiple devices simultaneously
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Classic version of app with old features
  • Automatic chip distribution calculator

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PokerTimer

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Pro Version$6.99
30 purchases

Blinds Up

Subscriptions23
  • Blinds Up Premium$3.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium$5.997 Days
  • Blinds Up Premium$6.991 Month
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  • Blinds Up Premium$7.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium4 variants$9.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$14.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$19.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium$23.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium3 Months trial$29.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$29.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$39.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$69.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium3 variants$79.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium1 Month trial$149.991 Year
One-time7
  • SNG classic up to 10 players (6 hours max)Free
  • Layout Vegas$0.99
  • SNG turbo up to 10 players (4 hours max)$1.99
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  • SNG turbo up to 30 players (4 hours max)$1.99
  • SNG classic up to 30 players (6 hours max)$1.99
  • Blinds Up PRO$11.99
  • Blinds Up PRO$21.99

Questions

Is PokerTimer free?
PokerTimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blinds Up free?
Blinds Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PokerTimer or Blinds Up?
PokerTimer is rated higher. PokerTimer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Blinds Up averages 3.3 from 126 ratings.
Do PokerTimer or Blinds Up have ads?
Neither PokerTimer nor Blinds Up shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PokerTimer or Blinds Up?
PokerTimer ships an update every 3 months, and Blinds Up monthly. Most recently, PokerTimer was updated on September 23, 2026 and Blinds Up on September 21, 2026.

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