Gentle Timer vs Little Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gentle Timer
This app offers a visually engaging countdown timer with animated characters and customizable backgrounds. It's designed for various activities like homework, cooking, or breaks, and includes features like a stopwatch and Pomodoro timer. Personalize your experience with different characters, music, and animations.
- Animated character countdown
- Customizable characters, backgrounds, and music
- Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Dynamic Island integration
- Stopwatch and Pomodoro timer modes
- Multiple timers simultaneously
- Apple Watch support
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Gentle Timer is a cheerful timer with cute animated characters. Set a time, and a character walks across the screen as the timer counts down. When it reaches the other side, time is up. You can always see how much time is left. • Pick a cute character, an animated background, and calming music. • Your character can leave a trail of sparkles, rubber ducks, or baby chicks. • A race car can drive around the timer and finish when time is up. • Choose a pet to pop up and cheer you on. • Your pet also shows on your Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Dynamic Island. • Fun animations play when your timer starts and when it ends. Use it for brushing teeth, homework, cooking, reading, or a short break at work. It also has a stopwatch, breathing exercises, and a Pomodoro timer for work and breaks. You can run more than one timer at once, too. There is also a simple Apple Watch timer. Free to download, with no ads and no subscription. Unlock more characters, pets, backgrounds, and music with a one-time purchase.
Little Planner
This app simplifies daily routines for children with visual schedules and animated icons. It helps them navigate mornings, bedtimes, and chores with a motivating egg companion that hatches animal friends upon completion. Designed with neurodivergent children in mind.
- Visual schedules for routines
- Animated task icons
- Motivational egg companion
- Hatchable animal friends
- Customizable morning/bedtime routines
- Designed for neurodivergent children
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Visual schedules made simple. Calmer mornings and evenings. Little Planner helps children see what comes next and move through daily routines one clear step at a time. Completing a routine hatches an animal friend, adding a little motivation to everyday tasks. Easily create routines with 2,000+ built-in task icons. Thoughtfully designed with children with ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent needs in mind. From the creators of Little Timer, a visual timer with over 800,000 downloads on the App Store and loved by families and therapists worldwide. Customize visual morning, bedtime, school-day, and chore routines with animated icons. Your kids follow each routine on their own with an egg companion. When a routine is finished, the egg hatches an animal friend to add to their collection — with 24 animals to discover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gentle Timer at every 2 days against Little Planner's every 2 weeks. Gentle Timer also leads on ratings volume (408 vs 14). Little Planner's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Gentle Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Little Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Little Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gentle Timer has 408 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Gentle Timer ships an update every 2 days, Little Planner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gentle Timer | Little Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (408 ratings) | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 408 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JOHNNY LI | Little Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Gentle Timer
Little Planner
Bugs and requests
Gentle Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- No sound issues reported
- Seconds not displayed on countdown
- Landscape mode not working
Requested features
8 requests- More free options
- Landscape mode support
- Ability to set specific seconds
- Toggle off motion on settings menu
- Cat character option
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- View of all timers set all time
- Ability to create 'Goals' (e.g., set 40 hours)
- Dinosaur character option
Little Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gentle Timer
- All Pets, Characters & Scenes$4.99
Little Planner
- Premium — All Animals & Stories$9.99
Questions
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