Comparison

Timity vs Gift Linker

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

Head to head
About

Timity

Calculate the time elapsed between past or future events and the current moment. You can also find the duration between two specific dates or add/subtract time intervals from any given date. It also provides sunrise and sunset times for your location.

Highlights
  • Calculate elapsed time to current time
  • Calculate time between two events
  • Add/subtract time intervals
  • Determine sunrise and sunset
Features
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Every moment, counted. Timity keeps the dates that matter in sight — birthdays, trips, exams, anniversaries — and counts the days to each, or since it happened. By the day, or live to the second. COUNTDOWNS AND COUNT-UPS • Count down to a date ahead, or up from one behind you — like the day you quit smoking • Repeats from daily to yearly, even in the Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic calendars • Make each one yours with a color and symbol, a photo, notes, a checklist, a progress bar, reminders and lists • Pin the ones that matter most • Every detail of the date: its weekday and week, and for birthdays and anniversaries the exact time since the very first one, from years down to seconds QUICK TO FILL • Just type “Mum’s birthday on 3 March” and Timity fills in the rest • Import birthdays and anniversaries from Contacts, events from Calendar, and public holidays for many countries • Ready-made events: New Year’s Eve, payday, the weekend, summer, the next public holiday A CALCULATOR FOR EVERY QUESTION ABOUT TIME Time Between, Find a Date, Workdays, Bridge Days, Week Number, Calendar Converter, Add Up Times, Work Hours, Time Zones, Flight Arrival, Bedtime, Exact Age, Milestones and Life in Weeks — each answers one question, as you type. SUN AND MOON Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour and twilight, plus today’s moon phase, moonrise and moonset and the year’s full moons — for where you are or any city in the world, each in its own time zone. EVERYWHERE • Widgets for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and the Mac desktop • Live Activities on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • An Apple Watch app with complications • A native Mac app with your next countdowns in the menu bar, keyboard shortcuts and events in windows of their own • Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center and Spotlight • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch • On iPad and Mac: a sidebar for everything, with your list and countdown side by side PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your events live on your devices and in your private iCloud — nobody else can read them, including us. FREE Every feature is free. If you love Timity, you can support its development with a tip or a subscription and pick an alternative app icon as a thank-you. Privacy Policy: https://timity.linkandreas.de/privacy/en/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Gift Linker

This app helps manage gift-giving for groups by randomly assigning recipients. It ensures everyone receives a present and allows for multiple event lists. Personal security codes keep assignments private.

Highlights
  • Random name assignment
  • Multiple event lists
  • Personal security codes
  • Ensures everyone gets a gift
  • Easy gift management
Features
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>>> Gift Linker lets you manage who to buy a gift for. It picks a random name within a group of people and makes sure nobody stays empty-handed. Everybody gets a gift. >>> All users put in a personal security code, so only he/she can see who to buy a gift for. >>> You can create multiple lists for more than just one event. >>> Easily managed. Because buying gifts should be really fun.

Screenshots

Timity4 screens
Gift Linker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gift Linker at none against Timity's 5. Gift Linker also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 57%) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 27.0). Timity's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, 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. Timity sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Gift Linker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timity holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Timity's written reviews are positive against 67% of Gift Linker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timity ships an update every 3 months, Gift Linker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Timity versus Gift Linker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimityGift Linker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26 ratings) — better4.4 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26 — better18
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS27.011.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas LinkSteven Adons

Customer experience

Timity

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

Gift Linker

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Timity

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Support$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Support$12.991 Year
One-time3
  • Small Support$2.99
  • Support$4.99
  • Generous Support$8.99
None

Gift Linker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timity free?
Timity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gift Linker free?
Gift Linker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Timity or Gift Linker?
Timity is rated higher. Timity averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Gift Linker averages 4.4 from 18 ratings.
Do Timity or Gift Linker have ads?
Neither Timity nor Gift Linker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timity or Gift Linker?
Timity ships an update every 3 months, and Gift Linker every 2 months. Most recently, Timity was updated on November 1, 2026 and Gift Linker on November 2, 2026.

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