AnyTimer vs Kitchen Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AnyTimer
Manage multiple cooking timers simultaneously to ensure perfect results for various dishes. Never miss a crucial cooking step again, from pasta to steak, and enjoy your meal preparation with confidence.
- Simultaneous countdown timers
- Precise time management for cooking
- User-friendly interface
- Ideal for complex recipes
- Free to use
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AnyTimer is a free app which helps you cook several dishes simultaneously. Preparing pasta al-dente, making a risotto, steak or a sauce is easy when every second is under control. Do not forget to remove the food from heat, or to get it out from the oven, while drinking a glass of wine without having to worry about missing the important point: the moment of ultimate taste!
Kitchen Timer
This app provides a simple yet multifunctional kitchen timer with customizable alarms and notifications. It offers features like quick start, tenkey time input, and background operation, all for free.
- Quick start functionality
- Tenkey time input
- Customizable alarm sounds and volume
- Vibration and tactile feedback
- Background notifications
- Sleep disabled setting
- Dark mode
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It's a simple & multifunctional kitchen timer app. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Quick start - Time input by tenkey - Alarm sound, volume, repeat, automatic stop - Vibration - Background notifications, repeats, intervals - Button tap sound, volume, tactile feedback - Color (background, font) - Sleep disabled setting (timer is running) - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: kitchentimer://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: AnyTimer at none against Kitchen Timer's shown. AnyTimer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Kitchen Timer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AnyTimer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kitchen Timer has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of AnyTimer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kitchen Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AnyTimer ships an update every 5 months, Kitchen Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AnyTimer | Kitchen Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geoff Hackworth | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
AnyTimer
Kitchen Timer
In-app purchases
AnyTimer
No in-app purchases
Kitchen Timer
No in-app purchases
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