Talk Time vs ToastBuster Timer
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
ToastBuster Timer
This app is a dedicated timer for Toastmasters meetings, offering visual cues and customizable settings for various speaking roles. It allows for on-the-fly adjustments and provides a history of timed sessions, ensuring accurate timekeeping for speeches.
- Preset and custom role timers
- Full-screen color alerts with buzzing
- Background timer with Live Activity
- On-the-fly role switching
- Time correction features
- Speaker name tagging
- Automatic session history
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ToastBuster is a timer built for Toastmasters. Time any speech — Table Topics, Evaluations, long-form — with clear green, yellow, and red signals. Made by a Toastmaster. Features: • Preset and Custom Roles: Use built-in roles or create your own with custom green, yellow, and red times. • Switch Roles Mid-Timer: Forgot to change the role? Switch on the fly without losing the session. • Full-Screen Colour Alerts: The whole screen changes colour and the phone buzzes at each milestone. Watch the speaker, not the timer. • Background Timer: Leave the app and the timer keeps running. A Live Activity shows the current time and milestones from your Lock Screen and Home Screen. • Time Travel: Forgot to press start? Add 10s, 30s, or 1m to catch up instantly. • Speaker Names: Tag each session so you know whose time was whose. • Session History: Every speech is saved automatically with speaker, role, and final time. Your timekeeper's secretary, built in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ToastBuster Timer at 5.0 against Talk Time's 3.7. ToastBuster Timer also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 100 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 3). Talk Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. ToastBuster Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Talk Time asks for nothing beyond the download.
ToastBuster Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 10 respectively.
Talk Time ships an update every 100 months, ToastBuster Timer every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Talk Time | ToastBuster Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 100 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PM-International AG | Tanin Rojanapiansatith |
Customer experience
Talk Time
ToastBuster Timer
In-app purchases
Talk Time
No in-app purchases
ToastBuster Timer
- Pro$4.99
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