Break Speed vs Pool Shot Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Break Speed
Measure your pool break speed with this app. Simply place your phone on the rail, tap to start, and tap again after your break to get an accurate speed reading. Improve your game with precise feedback.
- Measures break shot speed
- High accuracy compared to radar guns
- Break Recognition technology
- Provides feedback for improvement
- Professional player recommended
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How Fast Is Your Break? Break Speed Powered By Predator can tell you! To use the app, set your phone on the rail and tap the screen. Now you're ready to break. Tap the screen once again after your break and the app will display your Break Speed speed. Break Speed is more than 10x the accuracy of a radar gun and has become the standard for break shot speed measurements, privately and professionally. With such high precision, you can use Break Speed to provide that feedback you need to improve your breaks. Break harder and more consistently with Break Speed. Don't worry about others breaking around you or other pool hall noise. Even shouting players won't fool our Break Recognition technology. Find out why professional pool players are using and recommending Break Speed to others. Our collaboration with Predator has been very effective. It's been great to work with a team that understands the science of billiards. The Predator R&D team has been testing the application along side their own speed measurement equipment and the Iron Willie robot, following a number of testing sessions, the Predator R&D team found the application so accurate that a partnership in pool science began. "The application is really spot on. During my many testing sessions with the Predator Team there was very little deviation between the Predator testing equipment and the application," said Predator Pro Mike Dechaine. If you're a serious player, and you don't have Break Speed Powered By Predator, what are you waiting for?
Pool Shot Timer
This app helps manage shot timing in pool games with customizable countdowns and alerts. It offers audio notifications, speech output, and a 'Time Out' feature for pausing or resetting the timer. Accidental closures are handled with persistent notifications.
- Customizable shot countdowns
- Configurable warning alerts
- Audio notifications
- Speech output option
- Persistent notifications on closure
- 'Time Out' feature
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Pool Shot Timer is designed to make it easier to time the shots in a game of pool. The default setting is a 60 second countdown with a warning at 30 seconds but these can both be changed if required. At the warning and when the timer runs out a chosen notification sound will play or you can use the built in speech option. Accidentally closed the app? Not a problem, a notification will appear at the warning time and when the timer runs out. (Notifications must be enabled when prompted for this to work) During the countdown, the option to call a 'Time Out' is enabled. From there you can continue the timer, start from the default time or just stop the timer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pool Shot Timer at Free against Break Speed's $4.99. Pool Shot Timer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Break Speed's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 27 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Pool Shot Timer is free to download; Break Speed costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Break Speed holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Break Speed has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Break Speed's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pool Shot Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Break Speed ships an update every 4 months, Pool Shot Timer every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Break Speed | Pool Shot Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (19 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #149 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Nettle | michael webb |
Customer experience
Break Speed
Pool Shot Timer
In-app purchases
Break Speed
No in-app purchases
Pool Shot Timer
No in-app purchases
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