Stella vs Flow Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stella
Easily log your work hours with a simple timer. Track time spent on specific tasks, view daily summaries, and analyze session breakdowns. Offers features like color-coding, memos, and home screen widgets for efficient time management.
- Task-based time tracking
- Session breakdown with memos
- Daily and total hour calculation
- Color-coded tasks
- Home screen widgets
- Dark mode support
- Manual time input
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Track work hours, keep a clear timesheet, and see exactly where your day went. Stella is a simple personal time tracker for work, shifts, freelance tasks, study sessions, and focused work. Start a task in seconds, stop when you are done, and Stella builds your time log automatically. Review daily totals and individual sessions without complicated setup or messy spreadsheets. Use Stella to: - Track work hours with a simple start and stop timer - Keep a timesheet and time log organized by task - Review daily totals from the calendar - See every session's start time, stop time, and duration - Add notes to sessions - Organize tasks with color coding - View Home Screen widgets and Live Activities - See daily charts by task - Add or edit time manually when you forget to start the timer - Access stats and longer history with premium - Sync your data with iCloud using premium Whether you are recording a shift, tracking freelance hours, studying, or staying accountable during deep work, Stella gives you a straightforward record of how you spent your time. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/stella-privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flow Timer
This app uses calming animations to help you focus and track time for various activities. Set custom durations, choose themes and sounds, and create interval timers for study or workouts. It offers a distraction-free experience for mindful timing.
- Peaceful countdown animations
- Customizable timer durations
- Named timers for specific uses
- Calming background and timer sounds
- Themed visual preferences
- Interval timers for Pomodoro/HIIT
- Timer session tracking and badges
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Water climbs. Sand falls. A picture appears. Flow Timer is a visual timer: it shows you time instead of telling you. Water that climbs the glass as you go, a sand timer whose grains really fall, or a picture that paints itself while you work. Glance at it and you know how long is left — no numbers to read, no arithmetic. BUILT FOR TIME BLINDNESS When minutes feel invisible — as they often do for people with ADHD — a shape you can watch beats a number you have to interpret. That is the whole design. Nothing flashes, nothing nags, nothing demands a decision. The timer simply keeps being visible until it is done. A TIMER WORTH LOOKING AT Most timers are ugly because nobody expects you to watch them. This one is made to be watched: hand-drawn scenes, five colour palettes, an hourglass with real falling sand, calming sounds, and a zen mode that clears away everything but the time. Leave it running on a desk or a second screen and it earns its place. IN THE CLASSROOM AND AT HOME Big enough to read from the back row, clear enough for a child who cannot read a clock yet. Transitions, tests, quiet reading, toothbrushing, screen time, bedtime wind-down. A visual countdown ends the "how long left?" question without anyone having to answer it. ALSO A GOOD STUDY TIMER Set any duration, name it, start it in one tap. Build interval sessions for pomodoro study blocks, workouts or circuits. Streaks, badges, a heatmap and monthly trends record where your focus actually went, from your very first session. OFFLINE, AND STAYS THAT WAY No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads. Flow Timer collects nothing about you because it has nowhere to send it — everything stays on your device unless you export a backup yourself. Available in 15 languages. ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Free covers the liquid mode, the sand timer, intervals, every duration, most sounds and your daily statistics. Flow Timer Pro is an optional one-time purchase — never a subscription — adding canvas timers with your own photos, binaural beats and focus tones, your complete history, and backup export. Buy it once and it is yours for good. Built by one person who wanted a timer worth looking at.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flow Timer at 4.8 against Stella's 4.2. Flow Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Stella's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 6). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Stella sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Flow Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flow Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Stella's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flow Timer's.
Stella ships an update every 3 weeks, Flow Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stella | Flow Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (26 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jordan Holland | Codejuno Ltd |
Customer experience
Stella
Flow Timer
In-app purchases
Stella
- Stella Premium$2.991 Month
- Stella Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Stella Premium$29.99
Flow Timer
No in-app purchases









