Comparison

TalkingTime vs SpeakTimer

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

Head to head
About

TalkingTime

Hear the time spoken aloud without needing to look at your screen. Schedule spoken time announcements, hourly chimes, and personalized voice reminders. Ideal for staying aware of the time while working, studying, or on the go.

Highlights
  • Spoken time announcements
  • Hourly chimes
  • Personalized voice reminders
  • Customizable schedules
  • 12- or 24-hour speech
  • Works with screen locked
Features
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Hear the time without stopping to look at your screen. TalkingTime gives you spoken time announcements, chimes and personal voice reminders on iPhone and iPad. Use a regular time cue to notice the passing hours while you work, study or move through your day. START WITH EASY • Use the included Easy schedule. • Choose spoken time or chimes, a voice, and 12- or 24-hour speech. • Add your own text to an enabled Easy announcement time. PRO SUBSCRIPTION • Edit Easy announcement times. • Use the separate Custom schedule at any minute, on specific dates or on selected weekdays. LEGACY PRO Your original lifetime access continues to include Easy editing and messages. The separate Custom schedule requires a Pro subscription. SET UP ANNOUNCEMENTS Keep Master Enable on and allow Notifications and Sounds for TalkingTime. Then return to the Home Screen with a normal swipe up or Home button, giving the app time to prepare your schedule. Prepared announcements use iOS local notifications and can sound when the screen is locked. Keep the device powered on. Silent mode, ringer volume, Focus and audio routing can affect what you hear. GET HELP Open It’s not working and tap Get support. Diagnostic information is sent automatically. You can also contact support@fortuisoft.com. The app and Apple purchase sheet show the current Pro price, billing period and any eligible trial. Pro is an automatically renewing subscription unless cancelled. Manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple account. Privacy: https://www.fortuisoft.com/talkingtime/Privacy.html Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

SpeakTimer

This app provides customizable voice alerts for countdowns and stopwatches. Set specific spoken messages at chosen intervals or when timers end, even when the app is in the background. It's designed for easy use in various daily activities.

Highlights
  • Customizable voice alerts
  • Speech at chosen intervals
  • Background voice alerts
  • Multiple timers simultaneously
  • Speaking stopwatches
  • Quick and Custom timer types
Features
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Make timing as easy as it’s ever been with SpeakTimer: the timer that speaks. SpeakTimer is a handy app that can be used as a personal assistant to keep you on track with a plethora of day-to-day activities in life, such as cooking, revision, workouts or taking a nap. It fulfils this through its ability to deliver speech at any points you choose, its high level of customisability to suit your specific needs, and the ability to see multiple timers at once. Voice alerts are fully customisable: the speech to be spoken is completely up to you, and so is the time at which it happens - the app is optimised to make the process of adding these very simple. You can choose to add single voice alerts here and there, or to repeat speech at regular intervals as the timer counts down. You do not have to add speech if you do not want to. After downloading the app, you will be able to enjoy the many features SpeakTimer has to offer (note that some will require a SpeakTimer PRO subscription): - Hear speech as timers count down and when they end - Hear voice alerts when the app is in the background - Works with iOS multitasking - Sleek, clean design - Extremely simple to use - Two types of timer: Quick Timer (to quickly set a timer up) and Custom Timer (to customise what the timer says and when) - Speaking stopwatches - Store and run timers simultaneously - View active timers in isolation - Reorder, delete and reset timers easily - Edit timers - ‘Jump To’ feature (allows you to jump to any point in the timer) - Change the navigation bar colour - Times to the second - Tailor timers, the interface and the app to your preferences easily Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/72988728 Terms and Conditions: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/72988728

Screenshots

TalkingTime3 screens
SpeakTimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TalkingTime at 93% against SpeakTimer's 54%. TalkingTime also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). SpeakTimer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.3 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. TalkingTime sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and SpeakTimer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TalkingTime holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 309 and 218 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of TalkingTime's written reviews are positive against 54% of SpeakTimer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TalkingTime ships an update every 6 weeks, SpeakTimer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TalkingTime versus SpeakTimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalkingTimeSpeakTimer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (309 ratings) — better4.4 (218 ratings)
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews — better53.6% of reviews
Number of ratings309 — better218
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.614.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFortuisoft LLCDynamic Apps Ltd

Customer experience

TalkingTime

All ratings309 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews210 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.2%

SpeakTimer

All ratings218 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral6.0%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive53.6%
Neutral10.7%
Negative35.7%

User reviews

TalkingTime

From 309 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Reliable and consistent
  • 🚀 Helps with time management
  • 💡 Customizable announcements
  • 👍 Easy to use and set up
  • 🚀 Keeps users on track

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional stability issues
  • 🔊 Low volume of announcements
  • 🔊 Limited voice options

SpeakTimer

From 218 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fully customizable timers and prompts
  • 💡 Smart reminders for time management
  • 👍 Useful for ADHD and time blindness
  • 👍 Flexible for various uses (races, exercises)
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription required for functionality
  • 💰 High price for basic features
  • 💰 Free trial auto-renews
  • 🔊 Turns down volume of other apps
  • 🔊 Does not work in background

Bugs and requests

TalkingTime

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Announcements not working after iOS updates
  • Inconsistent behavior with music/audio playback

Requested features

4 requests
  • More frequent time announcements (e.g., every 10 minutes)
  • Custom voice recording option
  • Integration with calendar/scheduling apps
  • Separate volume control for announcements

SpeakTimer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Does not record on-speech
  • Does not always speak
  • Doesn't work when app is not on screen
  • Impossible to edit speech intervals

Requested features

6 requests
  • More realistic or customizable voices
  • Smartly handle pluralization (e.g., '1 unit left')
  • Allow sounds to be configured as well as speech (e.g., air horn)
  • Start timer by voice command
  • Change voice to a more peaceful/softer one
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  • Ability to set alarms at specific times/days (e.g., 3:15 every Thursday)

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TalkingTime

Subscriptions1
  • Pro upgrade7 Days trial$1.991 Month
6 purchases

SpeakTimer

Subscriptions6
  • SpeakTimer PRO Monthly$2.991 Month
  • SpeakTimer PRO Monthly2 variants$4.991 Month
  • SpeakTimer PRO Monthly$6.991 Month
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  • SpeakTimer PRO Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • SpeakTimer PRO Annual3 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • SpeakTimer PRO Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is TalkingTime free?
TalkingTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SpeakTimer free?
SpeakTimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TalkingTime or SpeakTimer?
TalkingTime is rated higher. TalkingTime averages 4.6 out of 5 from 309 ratings, while SpeakTimer averages 4.4 from 218 ratings.
Do TalkingTime or SpeakTimer have ads?
SpeakTimer shows ads; TalkingTime does not.
Which is updated more often, TalkingTime or SpeakTimer?
TalkingTime ships an update every 6 weeks, and SpeakTimer every 3 weeks. Most recently, TalkingTime was updated on November 6, 2026 and SpeakTimer on November 8, 2026.

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