Talk Time vs TalkingTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Talk Time
This utility helps manage speaking time on stage. Set your desired duration and receive visual and vibration alerts as your time nears its end. The interface changes color and sounds an alert when time is up, also indicating how much time has been exceeded.
- Set speaking duration
- Visual alerts before time ends
- Vibration alerts before time ends
- Color change at time expiration
- Auditory alert at time expiration
- Tracks time overage
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Talk Time is an easy but helpful tool for all people talking on stage. You put in you time you want to talk and with the start the time is running out. You can modify how many minutes before your time ends a visual sign and a vibration will recognize you. At the end of the time the colour is changing and a sound appear. The time is running on and so you can see how much you are over the planned time. For comments and questions contact app@pm-international.com
TalkingTime
This app announces the current time audibly at user-defined intervals, such as hourly, half-hourly, or quarter-hourly. It operates efficiently in the background after initial setup, conserving battery life. The app adheres to your phone's 12-hour or 24-hour time format.
- Audible time announcements
- Hourly, half-hourly, quarter-hourly alerts
- Set and forget operation
- Battery efficient
- Respects phone's time format
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Hear the time without stopping to look at your screen. TalkingTime gives you spoken time announcements, chimes and personal voice reminders on iPhone and iPad. Use a regular time cue to notice the passing hours while you work, study or move through your day. START WITH EASY • Use the included Easy schedule. • Choose spoken time or chimes, a voice, and 12- or 24-hour speech. • Add your own text to an enabled Easy announcement time. PRO SUBSCRIPTION • Edit Easy announcement times. • Use the separate Custom schedule at any minute, on specific dates or on selected weekdays. LEGACY PRO Your original lifetime access continues to include Easy editing and messages. The separate Custom schedule requires a Pro subscription. SET UP ANNOUNCEMENTS Keep Master Enable on and allow Notifications and Sounds for TalkingTime. Then return to the Home Screen with a normal swipe up or Home button, giving the app time to prepare your schedule. Prepared announcements use iOS local notifications and can sound when the screen is locked. Keep the device powered on. Silent mode, ringer volume, Focus and audio routing can affect what you hear. GET HELP Open It’s not working and tap Get support. Diagnostic information is sent automatically. You can also contact support@fortuisoft.com. The app and Apple purchase sheet show the current Pro price, billing period and any eligible trial. Pro is an automatically renewing subscription unless cancelled. Manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple account. Privacy: https://www.fortuisoft.com/talkingtime/Privacy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TalkingTime at 4.6 against Talk Time's 3.7. TalkingTime also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 100 months) and ratings volume (309 vs 3). Talk Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. TalkingTime sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Talk Time asks for nothing beyond the download.
TalkingTime holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TalkingTime has 309 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Talk Time's written reviews are positive against 93% of TalkingTime's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Talk Time ships an update every 100 months, TalkingTime every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Talk Time | TalkingTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (309 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 309 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 100 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PM-International AG | Fortuisoft LLC |
Customer experience
Talk Time
TalkingTime
Bugs and requests
Talk Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TalkingTime
Reported bugs
2 issues- Announcements not working after iOS updates
- Inconsistent behavior with music/audio playback
Requested features
4 requests- More frequent time announcements (e.g., every 10 minutes)
- Custom voice recording option
- Integration with calendar/scheduling apps
- Separate volume control for announcements
In-app purchases
Talk Time
No in-app purchases
TalkingTime
- Pro upgrade7 Days trial$1.991 Month
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