Comparison

Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch vs Message Vault

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

Head to head
About

Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch

Manage multiple timers and stopwatches simultaneously for various activities like cooking, workouts, and daily routines. Build complex interval timers with custom segments and receive voice announcements. Save and reuse timer templates for efficient time management.

Highlights
  • Multiple timers and stopwatches
  • Multi-step interval timers
  • Customizable timer segments
  • Voice announcements
  • Timer templates (HIIT, Pomodoro)
  • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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Set multiple timers and stopwatches at once. Build multi-step and interval timers for workouts, cooking, and daily routines. Adjust time on the fly without stopping. Timer+ handles everything you throw at it. Downloaded over 9 million times! Get the top timer app that’s repeatedly rated 5-stars by users. Create, label and reuse timers for anything – yoga stretches, cooking rice, workouts, timed quizzes, therapeutic treatments or remembering to take your pills. Perfect for busy people, multi-taskers, and forgetful folks. Loved by parents, athletes, chefs, teachers and students… TIMERS Great for laundry, cooking, naps, meetings, and study sessions. + Count down for a set duration (up to 99 days) + Repeat up to 64 times + Add or remove time while a timer is running + Pause, resume, and skip repeated runs + Count up after a timer ends so you can extend it or see when it finished + Show eligible non-repeating timers on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island STOPWATCHES Great for workouts, speeches, meditation, therapy, and timing between medications. + Track elapsed time from the moment you start + Pause and resume anytime + Record laps and assign custom names so they are easy to identify in history + Show eligible running stopwatches on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island COUNTDOWNS Best for birthdays, deadlines, appointments, travel days, and other important events. + Count down to a specific date and time + Count up after the target time passes CUSTOM AND INTERVAL TIMERS Ideal for Tabata, HIIT, yoga flows, breathing exercises, baking bread, and other multi-step routines. + Build multi-segment timers with as many steps as you need + Set a custom name, duration, color, and sound for each segment + Hear voice announcements at the start, halfway point, and with 10 or 3 seconds left + Add Countdown To Start, Warmup, and Cooldown segments + Add rest intervals between rounds + Repeat full routines for a set number of rounds, with optional time between sets TIMER TEMPLATES + Tabata and HIIT templates for work and rest intervals + Pomodoro and Focus templates for work and break cycles + EMOM templates for every-minute-on-the-minute training TIMER HISTORY + Save each timer run so you can review it later WIDGETS + Add Home Screen widgets for any timer + Start, stop, and reset timers from a widget + Use the Active Timers widget to see all running timers APPLE WATCH + Start timers on Apple Watch + See running timers on Apple Watch APP INTENTS & SHORTCUTS + Create, start, stop, and reset timers with App Intents and Shortcuts QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q: Why use Timer+ instead of the built-in Clock app? A: Use Timer+ when the built-in Clock app is too limited for the way you actually time things. It is better for workouts, cooking with multiple dishes, productivity sessions, medications and daily routines because you can save reusable timers, run multiple stopwatches, repeat timers automatically, adjust time while a timer is running, run very long timers up to 99 days, and keep timing after a timer ends so you can see how late it is or keep going without starting over. Q: What is included in Timer+ Pro? A: Timer+ Pro is a paid tier that enables unlimited timers, unlocks the full timer history, unlocks advanced voice announcements and timer segments like Warmup and Cooldown, and removes all ads. www.timerplusapp.com/privacy www.timerplusapp.com/terms

About

Message Vault

Features
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Message Vault turns the text conversations that matter into a private, permanent, searchable archive — encrypted on your iPhone with a key only you hold. YOUR TEXTS ARE YOUR HISTORY Years of conversations with the people you love live in your Messages app — until a lost phone, a full storage bar, or an accidental deletion takes them. Message Vault gives them a durable home that belongs to you alone. IMPORT WITH A TAP, APPROVE EVERY BATCH Message Vault never reads your messages by itself. You run the Vault Sync shortcut, and iOS shows you exactly which messages are being shared with the app every time — approval is built into the operating system. Import as often as you like: already-archived messages are recognized and never duplicated. ENCRYPTED BEFORE IT TOUCHES ANYTHING Everything you archive is encrypted on your device with a key that lives in your iPhone's Keychain. Search, browse threads, and revisit conversations inside the vault — decrypted only in memory, only for you. YOUR iCLOUD, NOT OURS Optionally keep an encrypted copy in the private iCloud database of your own Apple Account. It leaves your phone only as ciphertext. There is no Message Vault server — we could not read your messages if we wanted to. A RECOVERY PHRASE ONLY YOU HOLD Set up recovery and you get a one-time phrase that can unlock your vault on a new iPhone. We never see it and cannot recover it — that is the point. DELETE MEANS DELETE One button removes your local archive, its keys, and the encrypted records in your iCloud — and tells you honestly if any cloud cleanup is still pending. GOOD TO KNOW Message Vault archives what iOS makes available to Shortcuts, which typically includes conversations through the previous day — it is an archive, not a live mirror. Sync is manual: nothing happens in the background without you. Requires the free Shortcuts app from Apple. NO ACCOUNTS. NO ANALYTICS. NO SERVERS. Message Vault is a paid app so that you are the customer — not your data. There is nothing to sign into, nothing tracking you, and nothing phoning home. Message Vault is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. iMessage and iCloud are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Screenshots

Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch4 screens
Message Vault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch at Free against Message Vault's $4.99. Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Message Vault's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown).

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

Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch is free to download; Message Vault costs $4.99 up front. Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Message Vault asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch versus Message Vault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimer+ Countdown & StopwatchMessage Vault
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.8 (41K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings41K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size211 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinima SoftwareBS Boys LLC

Bugs and requests

Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Timers not always triggering notifications
  • Issues with timer display when locked or in background
  • Ads reappearing after purchasing pro version

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to chain/sequence multiple timers
  • Improve sorting and organization of timers
  • Allow more customization options for timers
  • Implement sync across devices
  • Add a 'days' counter for long timers

Message Vault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch

Subscriptions7
  • Pro$0.997 Days
  • Pro$1.991 Month
  • Pro3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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  • Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Pro1 Year trial$9.991 Year
  • Pro1 Year trial$19.991 Year
  • Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro$29.99
  • Timer+ Pro$44.99
None

Message Vault

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch free?
Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Message Vault free?
Message Vault costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch or Message Vault have ads?
Timer+ Countdown & Stopwatch shows ads; Message Vault does not.

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