Lily pad vs TimeSee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lily pad
This app offers a gentle approach to time management, reducing stress during daily tasks like meal prep or getting ready. It aids in building routines, overcoming procrastination, and achieving a better activity balance.
- Manually adjust visual timer
- Create multiple timers
- Distraction-free time tracking
- Build routines
- Reduce stress with time management
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Enjoy a gentle time awareness by having our visual timer as an aid. We created this app to have less stress during activities that require time management. Like preparing to go outside or making a meal. It also helps to build up routines, to get started with things one postpones, or get a better balance between activities. Features: - Manually adjust your visual timer - Create multiple timers - Keep track of the time, free from distraction
TimeSee
This app helps individuals with ADHD visualize time passing through a simple, customizable ring timer. It offers features like keeping the screen on, overtime tracking, haptic feedback, and various completion sounds to aid focus and manage deadlines.
- Visual ring countdown timer
- Screen always on toggle
- Overtime count-up mode
- Customizable haptic feedback
- Multiple completion sound options
- Apple Watch companion app
- Quick preset timers
- Extensive customization options
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TIME BLINDNESS ENDS HERE If you have ADHD, you already know: time doesn't feel real. Minutes vanish, deadlines sneak up, and "just 5 more minutes" becomes an hour. TimeSee makes time something you can see - so your attention can stay on your life, not on the clock. FIVE WAYS TO SEE TIME A ring that shrinks. A filling circle. A slim bar. A clock face where the time you have spent stays visible in a lighter shade. And Wall Clock, where the hands show the actual time. Pick the one your eyes read fastest. WALL CLOCK (NEW) Your session, drawn on a real clock face. The hands show the actual time, so the end of your session is a place on the clock - not a number counting down. The finish time is always written underneath: "until 4:30". Drag the end of the band to the minute you want to finish, or type the minutes as usual. Pause, and your finish time moves with you - honestly. A LIBRARY OF YOUR OWN Build a session once and keep it. Its length, its marks, its finish message, its colours, its sounds - saved together under a name you will recognise. A 55-minute call and a 5-minute reset sit side by side, each remembering everything. PROGRESS MARKS Mark the parts of your session - say, 8 and 16 minutes of a 30-minute call. Up to 8 marks, shown on the dial before you start, so you can see the whole plan while you set it. Passed marks quietly fade. No sounds, no pop-ups. Guidance, not judgement. A MESSAGE FOR YOUR FUTURE SELF Write a note before you start - "book the next appointment", "drink some water" - and it will be waiting when the timer ends. Not a celebration: a handover, from the you who planned to the you who has just finished. AN ENDING, NOT AN ALARM Instead of one alarm you have to kill, the finish sound comes back gently until you are ready. Snooze it - 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes, your choice - or silence it; either can be undone with the same tap. Time being up should not feel like being told off. OVERTIME MODE When time's up, TimeSee keeps counting, so you can see how long your task actually took. Red is an option, never a rule. FEEL TIME PASSING An optional gentle tap as the timer passes each of your marks - five strengths, from a light touch to a long steady pulse you can feel with the phone on a stand. A quiet tap on the shoulder, without breaking your focus. CALM BY DEFAULT TimeSee opens with the essentials and nothing else. One switch at the top - "Show all settings" - reveals every option when you are ready. Nothing is removed; it waits until you ask. MADE FOR DIFFERENT BRAINS AND DIFFERENT SENSES 15 colour themes plus any custom colour, 11 colours for the digits, and 5 fonts including Atkinson Hyperlegible and Lexend. Adjust letter spacing, ring thickness, mark sizes and text size. Or turn the numbers off entirely and keep only the shape, if counting down is the part that stresses you. 15 COMPLETION SOUNDS From a Japanese wind chime to a singing bowl or a retro beep. Or turn sound off for silent meetings - the ending still arrives as a gentle vibration. APPLE WATCH COMPANION Your timer syncs to your wrist, following the colours, style and marks you chose on your iPhone. SMALL THINGS THAT HELP Keep the screen awake while the timer runs. Question marks beside the settings whose names do not explain themselves. A live preview you can tap to see the finish screen. Confetti when you finish - unless Reduce Motion is on, in which case it stays quiet. BUILT WITH ITS USERS The Clock style, Wall Clock, Progress Marks, the Library, the finish message and the gentler ending all began as user reviews and emails. The app is still growing, and you can help shape it: support@defrust.com PRIVACY FIRST Zero data collection. Zero tracking. No account. Everything stays on your device. Your focus is your business - and nobody else's. 100% FREE Every feature. Every sound. Every theme. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no hidden fees. TimeSee is built to help - not to monetize your attention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lily pad at 50% against TimeSee's 0%. Lily pad also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lily pad holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Lily pad's written reviews are positive against 0% of TimeSee's.
Lily pad ships an update every 6 days, TimeSee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 21, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lily pad | TimeSee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Freek Lever | HIDEKAZU YAMAOKA |
Customer experience
Lily pad
TimeSee
In-app purchases
Lily pad
No in-app purchases
TimeSee
No in-app purchases









