Comparison

Visual Timer for Kids vs Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)

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

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About

Visual Timer for Kids

This app helps children learn time management through a visual countdown timer. It features customizable themes, sounds, and animations to make tracking time enjoyable and motivating for kids. It's designed to support daily routines, homework, and playtime.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown timer
  • Customizable themes and sounds
  • Fun animations and rewards
  • Timer statistics for habit building
  • Supports daily routines and tasks
  • Child-friendly interface
Features
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Time Management with Tokimo: A Visual Timer Made for Kids! Tokimo is a fun and easy-to-use app designed especially for children to help them learn how to manage time. With colorful visuals and calming sounds, keeping track of time becomes a joyful and stress-free experience. Customize the timer with playful backgrounds and cheerful countdown melodies. When time's up, cute animations appear to celebrate achievements and keep kids motivated to finish their tasks. Whether it's homework, playtime, brushing teeth, screen time limits, or daily routines, Tokimo helps kids stay on track with simple, interactive features made just for them. Key Features: • Color & Sound Customization: Kids can choose their favorite themes and fun sounds to make timing more enjoyable. • Fun Visual Interface: Bright, friendly, and easy to understand — perfect for little ones. • Timer Stats: Parents and kids can see how time is used and build better habits together. • Versatile Use: Great for homework sessions, chores, breaks, bedtime routines, and more. Why Tokimo? • Designed specifically for children's needs and attention spans • Encourages positive routines and independence • Helps improve focus using visual and audio cues • Rewards kids with fun animations and cheerful sounds • Supports parents in creating smooth daily schedules Make learning about time easy and exciting. Download Tokimo today and watch your child's confidence grow with every countdown! Access to Tokimo Premium requires a paid subscription. Premium subscribers can use the timer without limits, access all advanced features, and unlock exclusive premium animations, countdown melodies, and themes. Privacy Policy: https://mobimount.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://mobimount.com/terms

About

Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)

This app offers a visually engaging countdown timer designed for various uses, from managing work breaks and children's activities to focusing on tasks. It features unique visual styles that reveal or pixelate photos as time elapses, making time management more interactive and fun.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown timer
  • Photo reveal and pixelate styles
  • Customizable alert sounds and colors
  • iCloud timer synchronization
  • Live Activities support
  • Guided Access for kids
  • AirPlay and tvOS support
Currently charting
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Time’s Up! is a fun, visual timer that you’ll actually want to use. Whether it’s for you, your kids, or someone else, Time’s Up! will make counting down much more engaging. Timers can be used at work and at home, whether you’re making sure you take a break or telling kids it’s bedtime. Timers exist everywhere, but none of them are fun and visually appealing — and that can be important when you’re dealing with kids big and small! Time’s Up! has the features you need to make time fun again. ——————— What’s the difference between “Time’s Up! — Visual Timer” and “Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)”? The free-to-download version of Time’s Up! lets you try the app five times before upgrading via in-app purchase. “Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)” is the same app but available paid-upfront with no limits in the app itself. “Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)” exists so educators can purchase the app through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program (VPP) for Education. It also excludes any third-party frameworks and analytics from the app. ——————— Time’s Up! isn’t just for kids and workaholics. The possibilities are endless: • Adults who need to set timers to stop them from working for too long without a break. • Kids who don’t want to do their homework but can be convinced to work in smaller chunks. • Setting reading or other activity timers before bed time. • Helping bigger kids focus on an activity for a set amount of time. • Setting timers for exercises — put Time’s Up! on your TV screen using AirPlay and turn a timer into the focal point for your exercise group. • Anything that’s based on a specific amount of time! What makes a timer fun? Time’s Up! has 5 fun styles to choose from, including: • “Reveal” a photo from your Photo Library as the seconds tick down. • “Pixelate” makes a photo more clear as a timer gets closer to completion. • “Puzzle” breaks a photo into jigsaw puzzle pieces and then puts the pieces into their places as time progresses. Alternatively, there are more traditional clock faces if you just want a simple timer. Timers can be customized with their own alert sound and color, too. Other key features include: • Sync your timers between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV using iCloud. • See your timers on your Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Apple Watch with Live Activities (requires iOS 18). • Guided Access to prevent kids from switching apps and changing timers, making sure only you have the power to control time. • Airplay and tvOS support so you can put a timer up on a TV screen. • Get audio updates each minute or countdown the last 10 seconds. • On macOS, you can float the timer window above other apps so it’s always visible. Time’s Up! has no ads or data trackers. We believe your data is your own and we don’t collect any of it.

Screenshots

Visual Timer for Kids4 screens
Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Timer for Kids at Free against Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)'s $5.99. Visual Timer for Kids also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (182 vs 8). Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On rating and ads 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

Visual Timer for Kids is free to download; Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) costs $5.99 up front. Visual Timer for Kids sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Timer for Kids holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Timer for Kids has 182 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Visual Timer for Kids's written reviews are positive against 100% of Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Timer for Kids ships an update fortnightly, Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Visual Timer for Kids versus Time’s Up! Timer (VPP): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual Timer for KidsTime’s Up! Timer (VPP)
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.6 (182 ratings) — better4.4 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings182 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#187 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.415.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size465 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNadiia MartyniukOverdesigned, LLC

Customer experience

Visual Timer for Kids

All ratings182 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral5.5%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.0%

Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Visual Timer for Kids

Requested features

4 requests
  • Lock timer to prevent pausing/stopping
  • More sound options, including no sound
  • Customizable with own pictures
  • Rechargeable battery option

Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Visual Timer for Kids

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Plan3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • MONTHLY ACCESS$7.991 Month
  • YEARLY ACCESS3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • LIFETIME ACCESS$59.99
None

Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Timer for Kids free?
Visual Timer for Kids is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) free?
Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual Timer for Kids or Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)?
Visual Timer for Kids is rated higher. Visual Timer for Kids averages 4.6 out of 5 from 182 ratings, while Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) averages 4.4 from 8 ratings.
Do Visual Timer for Kids or Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) have ads?
Neither Visual Timer for Kids nor Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Timer for Kids or Time’s Up! Timer (VPP)?
Visual Timer for Kids ships an update fortnightly, and Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) every 2 months. Most recently, Visual Timer for Kids was updated on September 21, 2026 and Time’s Up! Timer (VPP) on September 10, 2026.

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