Comparison

Gentle Timer vs Little Planner

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

Head to head
About

Gentle Timer

This app offers a visually appealing, ad-free timer for focus, productivity, and managing children's routines. It supports various timer types, including countdown, Pomodoro, and interval, with extensive customization options for backgrounds, music, and themes. It also includes helpful everyday tools like a calculator and breathing exercises.

Highlights
  • Visual countdown timers
  • Pomodoro focus sessions
  • Interval training timers
  • Multi timer support
  • Customizable backgrounds and music
  • Everyday utility tools
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Visual schedules for routines
  • Animated task icons
  • Motivational egg companion
  • Hatchable animal friends
  • Customizable morning/bedtime routines
  • Designed for neurodivergent children
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Gentle Timer4 screens
Little Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

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 (378 vs 11). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 378 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gentle Timer ships an update every 2 days, Little Planner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Gentle Timer versus Little Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGentle TimerLittle Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (378 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings378 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size211 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOHNNY LILittle Labs LLC

Customer experience

Gentle Timer

All ratings378 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral3.2%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Little Planner

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 3 more
  • 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

1 purchases

Gentle Timer

One-time1
  • Go Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Little Planner

One-time1
  • Premium — All Animals & Stories$9.99

Questions

Is Gentle Timer free?
Gentle Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Little Planner free?
Little Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gentle Timer or Little Planner?
Little Planner is rated higher. Gentle Timer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 378 ratings, while Little Planner averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Gentle Timer or Little Planner have ads?
Neither Gentle Timer nor Little Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gentle Timer or Little Planner?
Gentle Timer ships an update every 2 days, and Little Planner every 2 weeks. Most recently, Gentle Timer was updated on October 14, 2026 and Little Planner on October 5, 2026.

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