Five Timer vs Cuber App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Cuber App
Learn and practice cube-solving algorithms with this app. It helps improve recognition time and memorize complex sequences through customizable drills and timing features.
- Memorize CFOP algorithms
- Improve recognition time
- Drill algorithms daily
- Compare similar cases
- Time solves with metronome
- Jot down notes
- Customize algorithms
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Suck at cubing? Me too. So I wrote an app to help memorize full CFOP and improve my recognition time. I've gotten a lot better because of it and I hope it can help you too. How do I use it? However you want. I use it daily to learn and drill algorithms. Compare and contrast similar-looking cases. Time my solves in a variety of ways (metronome, casual, semi-blind). And jot down any notes. Why are some of your algorithms slow? That's just the way I learned them and it's hard to unlearn things. Good news though, you can easily change them to your liking or create entire collections. Does your timer use the official WCA scrambler? Not right now. It's a simplified method that is good enough for practice. It basically picks a random face, rotates it a random amount, picks another face, and repeats it 20 times. What is an alias? The solution for a T-Perm is (R U R' U') (R' F R) (R U' R' U') (R U R' F'). Using aliases, that can be shortened to 6 3 8 5. Much easier to memorize. Other cubers think I'm weird, but it works for me.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cuber App at Free against Five Timer's $1.99. Cuber App also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Five Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 5 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Cuber App is free to download; Five Timer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cuber App holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Five Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cuber App's.
Five Timer ships an update every 3 months, Cuber App every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Five Timer | Cuber App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (34 ratings) | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | T.Wright | Bunna Veth |
Customer experience
Five Timer
Cuber App
Bugs and 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)
Cuber App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Five Timer
No in-app purchases
Cuber App
No in-app purchases
