Tiltometer vs Five Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiltometer
This app transforms your device into a real-time inclinometer for off-road adventures. Monitor your vehicle's pitch and roll with animated gauges, customizable profiles, and adjustable tilt warnings. Includes GPS elevation and compass heading.
- Real-time pitch and roll gauges
- Customizable vehicle silhouettes
- Adjustable tilt warning thresholds
- GPS elevation and compass heading
- Calibration to any surface
- Screen stays on
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Tiltometer turns your iPhone or iPad into a precision inclinometer for off-road driving, overlanding, and trail riding. See your vehicle's pitch and roll in real time on animated gauges that move with your device. REAL-TIME TILT GAUGES Front and side vehicle silhouettes rotate live with your device orientation, giving you an intuitive read on pitch and roll displayed in degrees or percent grade. CUSTOMIZE YOUR RIDE Choose from 13 built-in vehicle silhouettes or upload your own photos to create a custom front and side profile that matches your exact rig. Apply a tint color and adjust opacity for the perfect look. TILT WARNINGS Set yellow and red alarm thresholds for each axis. Visual gauge overlays change color as you approach dangerous angles, and an optional audio alarm sounds when thresholds are exceeded. COMPASS & ELEVATION GPS elevation in feet or meters and compass heading with cardinal directions — magnetic or true north — are always visible at a glance. BUILT FOR THE TRAIL - Calibrate to zero on any surface - Adjustable gauge smoothing for steady readings on rough terrain - Screen stays on while the app is active - Works in portrait and landscape - No account or internet connection required
Five Timer
This app provides a modern and powerful timer for solving puzzles, supporting all WCA puzzles with customizable sessions and random scramblers. It offers innovative features like drop-to-stop and time tinting, along with detailed statistics and universal compatibility for iPhone and iPad.
- Universal App for iPhone and iPad
- WCA puzzle support with custom sessions
- Random state scramblers for multiple puzzles
- Innovative 'Drop to stop' timer control
- Time tinting for performance comparison
- Optional 15-second inspection
- Detailed statistics and averages
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FiveTimer is your cube timer with all the strength where it matters. Modern and updated regularly, FiveTimer has been developed and maintained since 2011. Today, it's full of power-user features you won't see in any other timer including: • Universal App for the iPhone and iPad. • Puzzle support for all WCA puzzles across multiple sessions and custom sessions you can configure yourself. - Random state scramblers include 2x2, 3x3, Square-1, Pyraminx, and Skewb. - Blindfold scrambles* • Drop to stop, an innovative and natural way to stop the timer. • Time tint, times colored based on how they fare to time compares to the session* • Hold to start or tap to start with an optional 15 second inspection. • Landscape support for iPhones* • Statistics for averages of 5, 12, 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1000 • Supports SplitView on iPads • Voice options to read the times of give inspection alerts* • Hardware keyboard shortcuts including start and stop with spacebar. * feature exclusive to FiveTimer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Five Timer at 4.4 against Tiltometer's 3.6. Five Timer also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). Tiltometer's advantage is chart position (#183 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Tiltometer costs $1.99 and Five Timer $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Five Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 34 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 80% and 81% positive.
Tiltometer ships an update every 7 months, Five Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiltometer | Five Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (13 ratings) | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 80.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #183 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steven Eppler | T.Wright |
Customer experience
Tiltometer
Five Timer
Bugs and requests
Tiltometer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Five Timer
Reported bugs
23 issues- Application and screen display not compatible with iPhone 17
- Setting tools overlapping with time and battery on iPhone 17 Pro
- Top control bar overlaps system status bar on newer iPhones with Dynamic Island
- Top bar inaccessible unless in landscape mode on iPhones with Dynamic Island
- Buttons at the top are at the same height as the dynamic island, making them unpressable
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- Buttons on the top are obstructed by the notch and unpressable
- Very easy to reset session, accidentally resetting all solves
- Settings take forever to load after many solves
- App crashes when trying to click on 'best avg'
- App crashes upon opening
- Tabbing out of the program causes it to refuse to tab back in
- App crashes after one time on iOS 6
- Drop to stop feature does not work while hiding solve time
- App crashes upon opening, even after reinstall
- Update issue: touch screen no longer stops timer as well
- Drop to stop does not stop as well after update
- Timer will just stop when not near phone
- Starting a solve before 10 secs of inspection left results in DNF
- App crashes every time upon opening
- App won't open after update
- Keeps displaying dnf instead of timing properly even with drop to stop turned off
- Reset button barely works, often starts timer instead
- Spacebar use with keyboard causes other buttons to start timer again
Requested features
19 requests- FTO scrambles for new WCA event
- Show expected end result of scramble
- 3x3 OH session
- Date and time for export reports
- Scramble graphic included
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- Show date/time for each solve
- 3x3 OH stock session
- Add custom notation for custom puzzles
- Preview scramble option on stock puzzles
- Random state clock scrambles
- Generate drawing of scramble
- Average of 100
- Bigger text for time on iPad
- Option to disable red flash during inspection
- Graph on iPad version
- Ability to internally save sessions
- Support for Megaminx
- Customization of colors or font sizes
- 15 sec countdown (like iiTimer)
In-app purchases
Tiltometer
No in-app purchases
Five Timer
No in-app purchases
