Comparison

ToastBuster Timer vs Sands

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

Head to head
About

ToastBuster Timer

This app is a dedicated timer for Toastmasters meetings, offering visual cues and customizable settings for various speaking roles. It allows for on-the-fly adjustments and provides a history of timed sessions, ensuring accurate timekeeping for speeches.

Highlights
  • Preset and custom role timers
  • Full-screen color alerts with buzzing
  • Background timer with Live Activity
  • On-the-fly role switching
  • Time correction features
  • Speaker name tagging
  • Automatic session history
Features
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ToastBuster is a timer built for Toastmasters. Time any speech — Table Topics, Evaluations, long-form — with clear green, yellow, and red signals. Made by a Toastmaster. Features: • Preset and Custom Roles: Use built-in roles or create your own with custom green, yellow, and red times. • Switch Roles Mid-Timer: Forgot to change the role? Switch on the fly without losing the session. • Full-Screen Colour Alerts: The whole screen changes colour and the phone buzzes at each milestone. Watch the speaker, not the timer. • Background Timer: Leave the app and the timer keeps running. A Live Activity shows the current time and milestones from your Lock Screen and Home Screen. • Time Travel: Forgot to press start? Add 10s, 30s, or 1m to catch up instantly. • Speaker Names: Tag each session so you know whose time was whose. • Session History: Every speech is saved automatically with speaker, role, and final time. Your timekeeper's secretary, built in.

About

Sands

Features
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Time is invisible until it is not. Sands makes it physical. Sands lives on your Apple Watch. A shrinking ring shows time passing, while haptics become more noticeable as a deadline approaches. It is designed for anyone who finds it easy to lose track of time. Timers you can feel Start a timer in two taps. The ring shifts from calm green to urgent red, and haptic feedback increases as time runs out. Leave-by alerts Set a leave time, such as 8:40 AM, and receive escalating haptic reminders at 15, 10, 5, and 2 minutes beforehand. Routines Build your morning from timed steps that advance hands-free. See whether you are on track, and adjust with one tap when needed. Get-ready mode Plan backward from when you need to leave. Sands tells you when to begin and helps pace each step, with quick recovery options when a task runs long. Hyperfocus sessions Receive gentle check-ins so you can stay aware of elapsed time. No lockouts and no judgment. Describe it, do not build it Say, “shower 10, dress 5, breakfast 15, out by 8:40,” and Sands creates a routine on your device. Private by design No account required. No servers or tracking. Your data stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ToastBuster Timer4 screens
Sands4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Sands at 17.0 against ToastBuster Timer's 26.0. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ToastBuster Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sands sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
ToastBuster Timer versus Sands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToastBuster TimerSands
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (24 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTanin RojanapiansatithMohamed Ali

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ToastBuster Timer

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99
3 purchases

Sands

Subscriptions2
  • Sands Pro: Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Sands Pro: Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sands Pro Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is ToastBuster Timer free?
ToastBuster Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sands free?
Sands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ToastBuster Timer or Sands have ads?
Neither ToastBuster Timer nor Sands shows ads.

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