Poker Blinds Timer vs Heads up!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poker Blinds Timer
This app helps manage poker games by tracking blind levels, timers, and player information. It offers features like randomizers for starting positions and bounties, customizable visuals, and voice announcements.
- Blind and ante tracking
- Customizable blind structures
- Player management
- Voice announcer
- Randomizers for positions and bounties
- Game progress timers
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Poker Blinds Timer is a Poker game timer. Although at it's core it is built around Texas Hold'em, it can be used for most types of Poker game. Key features - - Player starting seat position randomizer - Bounty randomizer - Synthesized voice announcer - Player thumbnails. Taken from camera or camera roll - Customize look of main screen by changing the colours of the labels, fonts, background etc. Main information screen includes – - Length of blinds information - Blinds timer - Current small blind and big blind - Next small blind and big blind - Current Ante - Next Ante - Total game length timer - Number of players - Average stack - Availability of Re-Buys and Add-Ons From the Main screen you can - - Randomize player starting position - Start/Reset game - Pause blind round, skip blind round or return to previous a previous blind round - Call time on a player - Eliminate player - Give a player a Re-Buy or Add-On From the Settings screen you can – - Add and remove players - Give each player a thumbnail - Set the amount of starting chips - Set the length of the blind round - Set the length of the ‘Call time on player’ countdown - Enable Re-Buys - Enable Add-Ons - Set the amount of the Add-On - Create custom blind structure - Set Ante for each round - Load/Save game settings - Customize Main Screen colour scheme - Enable Voice Announcer - Enable Big Blind Ante
Heads up!
This app helps manage poker games with friends by tracking blind levels and breaks. It allows customization of level duration, break frequency, and blind structures, sending instant notifications to your wrist.
- Customizable blind levels
- Adjustable level and break durations
- Break frequency settings
- Instant notifications on wrist
- Simple and powerful interface
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Fancy a good poker game with your friends? Now it will be easier with the new Blinds Up! poker timer! Simple, yet powerful and it's all you need for a good game! You can set the level duration, break duration and the frequency of the breaks - as well as the blind levels! Just start the clock and you'll get notified at every blind change or break instantly on your wrist!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Heads up! at 5.0 against Poker Blinds Timer's 2.8. Heads up! also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 44%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). Poker Blinds Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Poker Blinds Timer costs $0.99 and Heads up! $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Heads up! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poker Blinds Timer has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Poker Blinds Timer's written reviews are positive against 67% of Heads up!'s.
Poker Blinds Timer ships an update every 2 months, Heads up! every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poker Blinds Timer | Heads up! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Andrew Herbert | Zoltan Daniel Torok |
Customer experience
Poker Blinds Timer
Heads up!
In-app purchases
Poker Blinds Timer
No in-app purchases
Heads up!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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