Comparison

Buddy’s timer vs Autism ABC App

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

Head to head
About

Buddy’s timer

This app helps young children, including those on the autistic spectrum, understand the concept of time. It visually represents remaining time for activities, reducing frustration associated with waiting. Settings range from 1 to 60 minutes with audio and secure screen options.

Highlights
  • Visual time representation
  • Reduces waiting frustration
  • Settings from 1-60 minutes
  • Secure screen mode
  • Piano key chime
  • Suitable for autistic children
Features
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Have you heard of the Buddy's timer ? It can be used with very young children and is perfectly suited for children on the autistic spectrum. It is the ideal tool to help learn the concept of time. The time timer "materializes" the time left for an activity at home, in school or during a therapy session. It helps reduce frustrations from waiting. Buddy’s timer is very simple to use. Settings from 1 to 60 minutes – secure screen mode – piano key chime for audio support - fully functional, no in-app purchases. Please visit our website and help improve existing applications and create exciting new ones.

About

Autism ABC App

This app offers games and activities designed to help children with autism achieve developmental results. It features a simple, flexible interface suitable for all ages and levels, with AI-driven difficulty adjustment and anonymous data sharing for research.

Highlights
  • AI-driven difficulty adjustment
  • Games and activities for skill development
  • Flexible content for all ages and levels
  • Anonymous data collection for research
  • Progress tracking with graphs and indexes
  • Multiple user profiles
Features
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ABC App is the first app entirely dedicated to the world of autism and special education, designed and developed for educators in this field and parents of autistic children. Excellent for both entertainment and therapy hours. The core points of the app are: • Results: Our App is able to make your child achieve results, thanks to games and activities designed for this purpose. • Simplicity: The App is also accessible to those who are not familiar with technology: simple, effective and functional! • Flexibility: Content suitable for all ages and all levels of autism! Updates: New activities with each app update to increase and renew learning and fun! • Artificial Intelligence: The app automatically monitors user activity during use and increases or decreases the level of difficulty according to the data collected. • Sharing: One of the most ambitious aims is to collect data in a completely anonymous way and make it available both to the users themselves and to third parties for research! All our products are developed taking into account educational methodologies and exploiting the concept of "reinforcement", a tool that involves children in view of something they want. In recent times, with the advent of technology, tablets and smartphones have become recreational devices for children of all ages. In the context of the autism educational method these devices are often considered as a reinforcement, therefore presenting cognitive activities through the electronic device is not seen as a task to be performed but as something pleasant. ABC App exploits this aspect to its advantage, offering a wide range of activities to children that can transform their emerging skills into learned skills in a pleasant and natural way. The available activities range from purely playful and entertaining to those aimed at developing different cognitive or even motor skills. For each activity there are several levels of difficulty. The App, in a completely automatic way, increases or decreases this level by analysing the child's behaviour: the difficulty will increase if children succeed in the activity in a confident way or will decrease if they encounter too many obstacles and difficulties. Another aspect of the educational method is measurement: data must be collected. Data collection allows us to understand whether a specific activity is effective. The App tracks the child's results for each activity, making them available through easy-to-read graphs and indexes. Moreover, all this data is automatically processed and stored (completely anonymously) on a central server. Thanks to this database the guardian/parent/educator will be able to compare the user's results with an average figure referring to all children of the same sex and age for the selected activity. The App is addressed to families, educators and therapists. It is developed so that you can manage different profiles, one for each child/user. In this way an educator or a therapist will be able to use the App with multiple users, keeping for each of them the difficulty levels, the progress for each activity, the data and the usage statistics. Terms of Use: http://lollipapps.com/termini-condizioni.html Privacy Policy: http://lollipapps.com/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Buddy’s timer2 screens
Autism ABC App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Autism ABC App at 57% against Buddy’s timer's 0%. Autism ABC App also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (138 vs 3). Buddy’s timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Autism ABC App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Buddy’s timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Autism ABC App holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Autism ABC App has 138 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Buddy’s timer's written reviews are positive against 57% of Autism ABC App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buddy’s timer ships an update every 2 months, Autism ABC App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Buddy’s timer versus Autism ABC App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuddy’s timerAutism ABC App
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings)4.2 (138 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3138 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital PlayWareGanko

Customer experience

Buddy’s timer

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

Autism ABC App

All ratings138 ratings
Positive77.5%
Neutral8.0%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral4.8%
Negative38.1%

In-app purchases

None

Buddy’s timer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Autism ABC App

Subscriptions2
  • ABC App Premium - Monthly$5.991 Month
  • ABC App Premium - Annual3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Buddy’s timer free?
Buddy’s timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Autism ABC App free?
Autism ABC App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Buddy’s timer or Autism ABC App?
Autism ABC App is rated higher. Buddy’s timer averages 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Autism ABC App averages 4.2 from 138 ratings.
Do Buddy’s timer or Autism ABC App have ads?
Neither Buddy’s timer nor Autism ABC App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buddy’s timer or Autism ABC App?
Buddy’s timer ships an update every 2 months, and Autism ABC App every 3 weeks. Most recently, Buddy’s timer was updated on October 15, 2026 and Autism ABC App on October 10, 2026.

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