Comparison

Easy Cooking Timer vs IOC

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

Head to head
About

Easy Cooking Timer

Plan your meals with precision by timing each component to finish simultaneously. Input your recipe steps and cooking durations, and the app calculates the optimal start time for each task. Receive timely alerts and manage multiple recipes with ease.

Highlights
  • Automatic start time calculation
  • Background timer operation
  • Audio and visual alerts
  • Store and manage multiple meals
  • Search meals by name or item
  • Today widget integration
  • Apple Watch app support
Features
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Easy Cooking Timer lets you time the items in your meal so that they all finish together. Simply enter the details of the steps and times for the items in your meal and the app will calculate when each step needs to start. FEATURES ======== You can start cooking immediately or choose a meal end time. The timers run in the background so you can turn off your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch or use other apps while your meal is cooking. Cooking timer: • Displays a timer for each step in your meal, showing when the step will start. • Quickly see when the meal will be ready and when the next step will start. • Audio and visual alerts warn you when a step needs to be performed. • Hands-free operation to avoid getting your screen dirty. Manage your meals: • Store the details for as many different meals as you want. • Need to eat by 6pm? View meal times as the time the meal will be ready if you start cooking now. • Hungry for chicken? Search meals by meal name, item name or both. • Duplicate meals/items or copy items/steps from other meals to quickly create combinations. Today widget: • Quickly see which step starts next and how long until the meal is ready. • Tap a step to open the main app. Apple Watch app: • View cooking timer and notifications. REVIEWS ======= ***** "Perfect for those big complicated meals where everything needs different cooking times or where there are many stages to a dish. I looked at several different apps which claimed to do similar kind of thing, but none had depth of functionality, nor the ease of use and streamlined interface of this one." — littlesquidge, UK. ***** "Best cooking timer I can find, with clear sequential steps throughout the whole process!" — Midamoor, UK. ***** "It does one thing and one thing well and is probably the best 'kitchen' timer on the App Store for cooking." — Orca1910, UK. ***** "Excellent app, very simple to set up and has multiple stages built in. Visually clear and perfect for a big meal like Christmas." — BT2203, Ireland. If you would like more information please visit https://hacknicity.com/easycookingtimer where you can read the User Guide and a Tutorial to get a feel for how the app works before you buy.

About

IOC

Discover independent, quality restaurants across France. Find menus, book tables, order food for pickup or delivery, and buy gift vouchers. Stay updated on restaurant news and exclusive deals.

Highlights
  • Locate nearby restaurants
  • View daily menus and full carte
  • Book tables
  • Order food for pickup/delivery
  • Purchase gift vouchers
  • See restaurant news and events
  • Save favorite restaurants
Features
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Today's menu and the à la carte menu of the restaurants around you, at any moment — published by the restaurants themselves. AROUND YOU The restaurants of the icioncuisine.com Guide, nearest first: today's menu published this morning, full menu, opening hours, photos, ratings. Set the radius, filter those with a menu, open now, with a terrace, bookable, under €20. SEARCH WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE EATING A dish, a restaurant, a city, a cuisine: "quenelle", "ramen", "Annecy", "Italian". The Guide tells you where it is on today's menu or à la carte, with the price. THE MAP Every restaurant around you on a real map; in green, those that published their menu today. Tap, and the page opens. YOUR FAVOURITES LET YOU KNOW The heart on a page keeps the restaurant and notifies you in the morning when it publishes today's menu, or when it has news — one notification per restaurant, not ten. And once a week, the new restaurants around you. BOOK, ORDER, CALL Book a table in two taps, order takeaway when the restaurant offers it, find your bookings, call or get directions. NO PASSWORD A code by SMS or e-mail is enough. If you had the Menu du Jour app, your favourites are still there. Le Guide is the app of icioncuisine.com, published by Dujour SAS. Menus are published by the restaurants on dujour.pro; prices are indicative.

Screenshots

Easy Cooking Timer4 screens
IOC3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: IOC at Free against Easy Cooking Timer's $1.99. Easy Cooking Timer's advantage is chart position (#132 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

IOC is free to download; Easy Cooking Timer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Cooking Timer ships an update every 3 months, IOC every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 27, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Easy Cooking Timer versus IOC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Cooking TimerIOC
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better76.5% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#132 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeoff HackworthDu Jour

Customer experience

Easy Cooking Timer

All ratings17 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

IOC

Written reviews34 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative17.6%

In-app purchases

None

Easy Cooking Timer

No in-app purchases

None

IOC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Easy Cooking Timer free?
Easy Cooking Timer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is IOC free?
IOC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Easy Cooking Timer or IOC have ads?
Neither Easy Cooking Timer nor IOC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Easy Cooking Timer or IOC?
Easy Cooking Timer ships an update every 3 months, and IOC every 2 months. Most recently, Easy Cooking Timer was updated on September 27, 2026 and IOC on September 27, 2026.

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