Comparison

Boiled Egg Timer vs Crouton

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

Head to head
About

Boiled Egg Timer

Achieve perfectly boiled eggs every time with this highly-rated timer app. Featuring a user-friendly interface and chef-approved cooking times, it guarantees consistent results for soft, medium, or hard-boiled preferences.

Highlights
  • Perfectly boiled eggs
  • Chef-approved cooking times
  • User-friendly interface
  • Consistent results
  • Soft, medium, and hard-boiled options
Features
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The #1 Egg Timer App: Perfect Eggs Every Time! Trusted by millions and featured as the top downloaded egg timer in the App Store for over half a decade, our app ensures you get the perfect boil every time! Why Our Egg Timer Stands Out: 5+ Years of Excellence: Consistently the most downloaded and loved by egg enthusiasts everywhere. Revamped UI: Navigating is a breeze with our brand-new, user-friendly interface. Setting your timer has never been simpler! Chef-Approved: Our cooking times aren't just guesses. They're tried, tested, and approved by professional chefs ensuring accuracy and perfection. Reliable Results: Say goodbye to overcooked yolks and undercooked whites. Our app delivers consistent results every time. Whether you like them soft-boiled, hard-boiled, or anywhere in between, trust the best in the business. Our promise? A flawless egg-timer that never lets you down. Join the egg revolution and download today! Your perfect boiled egg awaits.

About

Crouton

Organize your favorite recipes from any source, plan your weekly meals, and generate grocery lists automatically. Features step-by-step cooking guidance, integrated timers, and AI-powered recipe importing.

Highlights
  • Import recipes from websites, books, and handwritten notes
  • AI and OCR recipe scanning
  • Weekly meal planning and automatic plan generation
  • Step-by-step cooking mode with hands-free navigation
  • Integrated timers and ingredient quantity display
  • Automatic grocery list creation
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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Crouton is simple feature packed recipe organizer & meal planner. The best place to store your favorite recipes from where ever you find them, websites, cookbooks or a handwritten note from your Grandma. IMPORT ANYWHERE Crouton supports importing recipes from almost everywhere! Pull recipes automatically out of websites and just save the bits you need. You can also scan recipes straight out of your recipe book using AI and OCR PLAN YOUR WEEK With your favourite recipes on hand, Crouton makes it very easy to plan your meals for the week (or even long into the future). If you’re stuck for recipe ideas let Crouton automatically generate the meal plan from your organized dinner recipes. STEP BY STEP MODE Crouton offers a unique step by step mode. Focus on one recipe step at time as you cook, you can tap on ingredients within a step to get the quantity (saves you jumping back and forth between the steps and ingredients). With hands free mode you can move between steps without touching your device! Perfect for when you have messy hands. TIMERS Start timers with a tap. Crouton detects times within recipes and lets you start timers straight from the steps. A convenient heads up display keeps the times front of mind while you continue to use the app. GROCERY LISTS Create shopping lists directly from your recipes, easily copy just the ingredients you need to your list. Integrates with Reminders for convenient access. Your groceries have never been easier! CLOUD SYNCING All of your recipes are conveniently synced between all of your devices using iCloud. RECIPE FEEDS Save your favourite recipe RSS feeds into Crouton to see new recipes as they’re published from your favourite blogs. AI IMPORTING Quickly import recipes using AI. Import a recipe from a single photo with no manual entry required. Also supports plain text and images. FAMILY SHARING Share your recipes with friends and family using iCloud, so everyone knows what’s for dinner. GUIDED WEIGHING Pair to supported Bluetooth scales (such as the Acaia coffee scales) and have Crouton guide you through weighing your ingredients, avoid the mental juggling of recipe steps and amounts COMBUSTION PROBE SUPPORT Crouton pairs with Combustion's temperature prove to provide live updates on your cook Crouton also offers a range of customization including custom icons and app colors. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Boiled Egg Timer3 screens
Crouton4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crouton at 78% against Boiled Egg Timer's 43%. Crouton also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 1). Boiled Egg Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price 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. Crouton sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Boiled Egg Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boiled Egg Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crouton has 2.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Boiled Egg Timer's written reviews are positive against 78% of Crouton's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Boiled Egg Timer ships an update every 9 months, Crouton every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Boiled Egg Timer versus Crouton: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoiled Egg TimerCrouton
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (2.8K ratings)
Positive reviews42.6% of reviews78.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#64 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.216.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB346 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFAT AVOCADO LTDCrouton LLC

Customer experience

Boiled Egg Timer

All ratings7 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative85.7%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive42.6%
Neutral6.5%
Negative50.9%

Crouton

All ratings2,818 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews528 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral8.5%
Negative13.3%

Bugs and requests

Boiled Egg Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Crouton

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Grocery list not remembering checked items
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Inability to add more than 5 recipes in free version

Requested features

6 requests
  • Recipe rating system
  • Nutrition information
  • Ability to add recipe notes and descriptions
  • Improved grocery list organization
  • Web/Windows app version
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  • Ability to export recipes in bulk

In-app purchases

None

Boiled Egg Timer

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Crouton

Subscriptions2
  • Discover Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Discover Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time6
  • Kind Tip$0.99
  • Great Tip$1.99
  • Amazing Tip$3.99
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  • Outrageous Tip$7.99
  • Crouton+ Early Bird$17.99
  • Crouton Plus$24.99

Questions

Is Boiled Egg Timer free?
Boiled Egg Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crouton free?
Crouton is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Boiled Egg Timer or Crouton?
Boiled Egg Timer is rated higher. Boiled Egg Timer averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Crouton averages 4.8 from 2.8K ratings.
Do Boiled Egg Timer or Crouton have ads?
Neither Boiled Egg Timer nor Crouton shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Boiled Egg Timer or Crouton?
Boiled Egg Timer ships an update every 9 months, and Crouton every 3 weeks. Most recently, Boiled Egg Timer was updated on September 17, 2026 and Crouton on September 23, 2026.

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