Comparison

TalkingTime vs Sink It for Google

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

Head to head
About

TalkingTime

This app announces the current time audibly at user-defined intervals, such as hourly, half-hourly, or quarter-hourly. It operates efficiently in the background after initial setup, conserving battery life. The app adheres to your phone's 12-hour or 24-hour time format.

Highlights
  • Audible time announcements
  • Hourly, half-hourly, quarter-hourly alerts
  • Set and forget operation
  • Battery efficient
  • Respects phone's time format
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

Sink It for Google

This Safari extension enhances search engine results by silently and safely removing unwanted spam websites. It prioritizes user privacy with on-device blocking and no data collection. Easily manage blocked sites with a simple tap interface.

Highlights
  • Removes spam websites from search results
  • On-device blocking with no data collection
  • Simple tap interface to ban and unban sites
  • Supports Google, with future support for image search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing
  • Privacy-focused design with no analytics
Features
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Sink It for Google is a super minimal Safari extension that declutters and cleans up your search results. Tired of seeing tons of nonsense spam websites on your Google searches? Sink It for Google silently, and safely, removes all of them. PRIVACY FIRST --------------- Sink It for Google has been built with a privacy first approach. - All the blocking happens on your device with literally ZERO data being recorded or sent back to be data mined. - Sink It for Google doesn't keep historic usage data like the count of how many sites it has blocked. - It doesn't even come with basic app analytics or telemetry to keep track of how many times you've opened or use the app. - It does check whether you have dark mode on or not so it can show you the correct tutorial video. (I hate opening a bright video on dark mode as much as you.) EASY AS 1-2-3 --------------- Ban sites with just a tap of the hammer icon. Monitor what sites are being banned on any page and unban with another tap. Easy peasy! DECLUTTER YOUR SEARCH RESULTS ---------------------------------- Currently, it de-clutters and removes spam websites from regular Google search. Search Ban will support image search on Google as well as other search sites like DuckDuckGo and Bing in the next few updates.

Screenshots

TalkingTime3 screens
Sink It for Google4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sink It for Google at none against TalkingTime's 1. TalkingTime's advantage is ratings volume (309 vs 18) and review sentiment (93% vs 85%). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TalkingTime sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Sink It for Google asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for TalkingTime against 4.5 for Sink It for Google. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TalkingTime has 309 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of TalkingTime's written reviews are positive against 85% of Sink It for Google's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TalkingTime ships an update every 6 weeks, Sink It for Google every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TalkingTime versus Sink It for Google: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalkingTimeSink It for Google
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (309 ratings) — better4.5 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews92.7% of reviews — better84.6% of reviews
Number of ratings309 — better18
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFortuisoft LLCTony Sundharam

Customer experience

TalkingTime

All ratings309 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews205 reviews
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.0%
Negative5.4%

Sink It for Google

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

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

Sink It for Google

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TalkingTime

Subscriptions1
  • Pro upgrade7 Days trial$1.991 Month
None

Sink It for Google

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TalkingTime free?
TalkingTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sink It for Google free?
Sink It for Google is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TalkingTime or Sink It for Google?
TalkingTime is rated higher. TalkingTime averages 4.6 out of 5 from 309 ratings, while Sink It for Google averages 4.5 from 18 ratings.
Do TalkingTime or Sink It for Google have ads?
Neither TalkingTime nor Sink It for Google shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TalkingTime or Sink It for Google?
TalkingTime ships an update every 6 weeks, and Sink It for Google every 2 months. Most recently, TalkingTime was updated on October 15, 2026 and Sink It for Google on October 16, 2026.

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