Comparison

Public Speaking with AJ vs Shop It Timer Notes

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

Head to head
About

Public Speaking with AJ

This app uses guided meditations and positive suggestions to help users overcome public speaking anxiety. It aims to build confidence, restore self-control, and create new positive habits for delivering presentations with ease.

Highlights
  • Overcome public speaking anxiety
  • Build confidence
  • Guided meditations
  • Positive suggestions
  • Mindfulness sessions
  • Breathing exercises
Features
Currently charting
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Public speaking, delivering a presentation, making a speech - these seemingly simple tasks can be nerve-racking for many people. A high percentage of people feel some anxiety about speaking in public, in fact, it is commonly thought that this phobia is many peoples number one fear.
 The overwhelming physical and emotional symptoms are all too real to those who suffer from it.
 This Public Speaking app has been designed to help you overcome your public speaking anxiety by using the amazing resources of your unconscious mind. Deliver a professional performance with confidence, motivation and self-control are restored and new positive thoughts, habits and behaviours and created.
 • Positive suggestions within this app. • Build your confidence. • Remain centred, calm, and relaxed. • Experience wonderful feelings of success. Destress, improve your mindset, sleep better, grow your confidence and be healthier with guided meditations, mindfulness sessions and positive messages – and much more. Mindfulness expert, coach and therapist Andrew Johnson has been helping people deal with life’s challenges with guided relaxations, meditations, self-care tools and breathing exercises for many years. His best-selling range of mindfulness apps have a variety of content to help you, whether you are looking for ways to reduce stress and anxiety, lose weight, improve your health & confidence, learn relaxation techniques, etc. Key features: • Short meditations you can do anywhere: at work, commuting, at home, walking. • Inspirational sessions to help you tackle life’s challenges, to be calm and find clarity. • Mindfulness stories and talks to help you build better, healthy habits. Meditations to help you feel inspired and find motivated to eat well, workout and stay healthy both in body and mind. Relaxation techniques and tools to help you sleep better every night, to wake feeling energised and refreshed. Breathing exercises and calming meditations for anxiety, panic attacks and stress relief. Meditation sessions to stop anxiety in its tracks and release stress. How do I get more? Start your day mindfully, keep feeling positive and be inspired throughout the day with a range of guided meditations to help during tough or stressful moments. Boost your energy with a Power Nap, stay focussed to Beat Procrastination, and then drift off using a Deep Sleep meditation for a restful night. Think of Andrew as your personal mindfulness coach, always there to help when you need him most. Search for Andrew Johnson to unlock more daily mindfulness and guided meditation sessions.

About

Shop It Timer Notes

This app allows for precise, second-by-second time-stamped note-taking and expense tracking, ideal for mystery shoppers and daily use. It features receipt uploads, time gap calculations, and discreet text entry to simplify reporting and enhance productivity.

Highlights
  • Second-by-second time-stamping
  • Expense logging with receipt uploads
  • Discreet text entry
  • Time gap calculation
  • Passcode lock
  • Adjustable font size
Features
Currently charting
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Shop IT Timer notes, on the fly where everything time-stamped TO-THE-SECOND. Expense Tracker - log expenses, upload receipts for each shop, calculate the total amount of expenses. Best ' Mystery Shopper's Mobile app' for note-taking. We interviewed over 100 professional Mystery Shoppers and considered every valuable review given by the users and all the valuable need-based feedback has been incorporated in this app to make your life safer and easier while making you more money at the same time. We are on a mission to help users remove the pain of note-taking, time tracking, and saving reports. Not only for Shoppers. Awesome for Daily life and Work notes. ======== APP DESCRIPTION ======== - It just looks like you are texting - Everything is TIME-STAMPED (TO THE SECOND) can be easily toggled between 24 hour time and 12 hours (am/pm) time - Passcode lock - Adjustable font size to make you feel comfortable looking at your Notes - No Log-in required - Intuitive and simple to use. If you can text, you already know how to "Shop It!" - Expenses Log, Upload Receipts. - iTunes File sharing - Sync iPhone with your PC - Many more you have to explore, trust us it has many more to store in it and make the life of note-taking easy. Also: - 'Tap' the screen to mark the time (to the second)- similar to a 'lap timer' - Save notes and "do not forget" instructions on the 'Shop List' page. flip back and forth discreetly between this and the covert 'Text Entry' screen. - Calculate time gap between two timestamps? We don't want you to go anywhere else for your reporting. Just long tap on timings in your Current Note. For far less than your pay on one 'Fast Food Shop', add this App to your Mystery-Shopping Toolkit. Spend less energy trying not-to-be-spotted and more time observing; save time on reports since you have all your notes, timings, photos, videos and voice memos in one place. Time=Money; it all adds up. *** *** The app has proven very stable and complaints are rare, but if there is ever anything amiss we definitely need the feedback in order to fix it. We respond quickly to every inquiry. Thank you for considering 'Shop-It'!! *** ---------------------------------------------------------------- More Info: ---------------------- Please visit http://tarushi-shopit.com ....for simple operating instructions, contact us, or to offer suggestions for future updates. Your good reviews are extremely valuable to us! Thank you. 'Shop It’ is not affiliated with any Shopping companies or their clients.

Screenshots

Public Speaking with AJ3 screens
Shop It Timer Notes2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Shop It Timer Notes at monthly against Public Speaking with AJ's every 7 months. Shop It Timer Notes also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (88% vs 74%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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

Public Speaking with AJ costs $2.99 and Shop It Timer Notes $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shop It Timer Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shop It Timer Notes has 33 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Public Speaking with AJ's written reviews are positive against 88% of Shop It Timer Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Public Speaking with AJ ships an update every 7 months, Shop It Timer Notes monthly. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Public Speaking with AJ versus Shop It Timer Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPublic Speaking with AJShop It Timer Notes
Price$2.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.0 (5 ratings)4.4 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.9% of reviews87.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings533 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#93 — better#191
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.4 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversal Relaxation LtdSaketh Ashvapuram

Customer experience

Public Speaking with AJ

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive73.9%
Neutral8.7%
Negative17.4%

Shop It Timer Notes

All ratings33 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral1.5%
Negative10.6%

Bugs and requests

Public Speaking with AJ

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Shop It Timer Notes

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes, losing timings
  • Recordings are empty or unplayable
  • App shuts down and closes notes when switching apps
  • Time marking is too sensitive, creating unneeded marks
  • Recording feature is not reliable
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  • Giant blinking red banner shows recording is active
  • Slider bar for audio navigation is difficult
  • Cannot edit or correct notes
  • Difficulty saving photos
  • Hidden camera warning appears when pressing return key
  • App freezes and shows a black screen
  • Audio recording sometimes doesn't work even in airplane mode
  • Hidden camera banner shows up when needing to interact with employees

Requested features

16 requests
  • Disable phone's auto-lock feature for iOS
  • Add to disable auto-lock apps list
  • Partnership with audio transcription to text
  • Make data accessible in iTunes file sharing
  • Organize photo export better
Show 11 more
  • Export all shop data in a single folder
  • Sync partnership with GeoVerify
  • Access partnership to JobSlinger Calendar
  • Option to swap hidden camera and send button
  • Enable secret cam simultaneously with regular cam
  • Ability to change or correct shop notes
  • Make timer small on top of screen
  • Automatically save photos without selection
  • Customize mark time feature
  • Non-stop voice recording
  • Change time format from military to standard

In-app purchases

None

Public Speaking with AJ

No in-app purchases

None

Shop It Timer Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Public Speaking with AJ free?
Public Speaking with AJ costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shop It Timer Notes free?
Shop It Timer Notes costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Public Speaking with AJ or Shop It Timer Notes?
Shop It Timer Notes is rated higher. Public Speaking with AJ averages 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Shop It Timer Notes averages 4.4 from 33 ratings.
Do Public Speaking with AJ or Shop It Timer Notes have ads?
Neither Public Speaking with AJ nor Shop It Timer Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Public Speaking with AJ or Shop It Timer Notes?
Public Speaking with AJ ships an update every 7 months, and Shop It Timer Notes monthly. Most recently, Public Speaking with AJ was updated on October 17, 2026 and Shop It Timer Notes on October 17, 2026.
Which is more popular, Public Speaking with AJ or Shop It Timer Notes?
Public Speaking with AJ currently peaks at #93 in the App Store charts, and Shop It Timer Notes at #191. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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