Gentle Timer vs Backmark

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.

Keep useful things close with Backmark, a private memory tool for iPhone. SAVE WHAT MATTERS Deliberately share links, text, screenshots, files and map links to Backmark from other apps. Each becomes a searchable Memory that keeps its original source link, alongside useful text and previews. Import bookmarks exported from Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Edge, sorted by folder or by topic on your iPhone. FIND IT AGAIN Browse by where each save came from, by topic, or with your own tiles, and search everything at once. Mark favorites, and open, edit, share or delete your saved content whenever you choose. BUILD WITH IT Group saves into manually maintained Boards. Add places from map links you share and see a planned walking or driving route between a Board's places. Share a Board as a set of images with every original link, or save the images to Photos. ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE On compatible iPhones with Apple Intelligence available, enrich Memories, ask questions grounded in a Board's saved content, sort imported bookmarks, and create Board covers and tile icons with Image Playground. Review and edit the cover description before generation. Normal saving, text recognition and search remain available without generative AI. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your Memories and Boards stay on your iPhone. Backmark requires no account and has no backend, analytics, advertising or silent cloud AI fallback. Place search and routes use Apple Maps with only what they need. Export everything as one zip you can open anywhere, restore it later, or delete all local Backmark data from Profile. A one-time purchase, with no subscription or in-app paywall.