Comparison

ClassTimer vs Creative Widget Builder

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

Head to head
About

ClassTimer

This app helps students develop essential time management skills with visual timers and customizable alerts. It supports various display formats and sounds to aid understanding and productivity in educational settings.

Highlights
  • Visual time display
  • Bar graph indicator for remaining time
  • Selectable buzzer sounds
  • Hours/minutes or minutes/seconds display
  • Start, stop, pause, and restart functions
  • Sound on/off control
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Our ClassTimer is designed to help teachers transform their classrooms into amazingly productive environments by assisting students with time management. ClassTimer helps students visualize time and understand it as fundamental concept that needs to be managed in order to be more productive. Good time management leads to success in school and work. In addition to the digital time display, ClassTimer includes a bar graph style display so that young children can visualize the time remaining for a particular task. Using ClassTimer children can better understand when the next phase of the school day will begin or when the time allotted for a task will end. Students at all levels can benefit from better time management skills. Whether they are taking a standardized test, working in a small group on a project or involved in a form of creative expression, they will be better able to succeed if they properly manage the available time. The ClassTimer makes it easy to visualize the passage of time. Several options increase its usefulness. Selectable buzzer sounds signal that the allotted time period has come to an end. Sound can be turned on or off. Usually classroom teachers will use the minutes and seconds display (MM:SS), but in some cases may want to switch to the hours and minutes display (HH:MM). ClassTimer Features ClassTimer has several useful features. In addtion to the very large display, a bar graph style indicator shows the remaining time as a percentage. Timer functions include a user selected audible sound effect to signal the end of a turn. Control Functions: • Activate or deactive the sound played when time is up. • Choose different audible signals by tapping the display. • Select between the hours and minutes display or the minutes and seconds display. • Tap the green arrow to start the countdown clock. • Tap stop to stop the timer. • Tap pause to pause the countdown. • Tap restart to reset the clock. • Slide the alarm sound control to either on or off. Works in stand-alone mode on an iPad or can be connected to a digital projector using an optional cable suppplied by Apple or wirelessly to Apple TV.

About

Creative Widget Builder

Create interactive book widgets for EPUB, iBooks, and HTML5. Supports 15 widget types including flashcards, quizzes, games, and multimedia. Easily export and import widgets for seamless integration into your digital books.

Highlights
  • 15 types of interactive widgets
  • Supports EPUB, iBooks, and HTML5
  • Offline content presentation
  • Export/import widgets as zip
  • Share extension for photos/videos
  • Customizable widget appearance
Features
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Creative Widget Builder is a new way to create your own book widgets in order to add more fun and interactivity to EPUB, iBooks and HTML5 books. CWB works with iBooks Author, Creative Book Builder, and other apps that support book widgets. CWB supports 15 types of widgets: * Flash Card * Fill In The Blank * Matching Question * Sorting Question * Interactive Image * Video Slide * Video Playlist * Video Question * Puzzle Game * Memory Matching Game * Timeline * Wikipedia Articles * Arithmetic Question * Guess The Word * Pair Matching Features * Add cover image * Generate quick cover image * Take screenshot as cover image * Configure the size, font, and margin of widgets * All the contents can be presented offline * Search widgets by keywords * Sort widgets by title and modified date * Copy widgets * Export widget as zip file for distribution * Import widgets * The generated widgets can be easily inserted into the book * Share photos and videos from other apps into CWB using Share Extension

Screenshots

Creative Widget Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Creative Widget Builder at Free against ClassTimer's $1.99. Creative Widget Builder also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0). ClassTimer's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.5). On review sentiment, 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

Creative Widget Builder is free to download; ClassTimer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Creative Widget Builder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClassTimer ships an update every 14 months, Creative Widget Builder every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ClassTimer versus Creative Widget Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClassTimerCreative Widget Builder
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 13 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPad, Mac, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.5
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB11 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperVentura Educational SystemsTiger Ng

Customer experience

ClassTimer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

Creative Widget Builder

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

ClassTimer

No in-app purchases

None

Creative Widget Builder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClassTimer free?
ClassTimer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Creative Widget Builder free?
Creative Widget Builder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ClassTimer or Creative Widget Builder?
Creative Widget Builder is rated higher. ClassTimer averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Creative Widget Builder averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ClassTimer or Creative Widget Builder have ads?
Neither ClassTimer nor Creative Widget Builder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClassTimer or Creative Widget Builder?
ClassTimer ships an update every 14 months, and Creative Widget Builder every 13 months. Most recently, ClassTimer was updated on June 25, 2026 and Creative Widget Builder on August 25, 2026.

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