TimeWatch vs .shush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeWatch
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Simplify Your Task Tracking Need a straightforward way to organise your tasks and track your time? Meet TimeWatch—your simple and intuitive time management tool. Whether you’re working, studying, exercising, or just taking a moment for yourself, TimeWatch helps you stay focused and productive without overwhelming you. Features You’ll Love • Organise Your Day: Define tasks in 4 customisable modes. • Focus Effortlessly: Start and pause timers with just one tap. • Choose Your Style: Use single or multiple active timers to match your workflow. • Celebrate Progress: Archive completed tasks and track total time with clear reports. • Stay Balanced: Include moments for mindfulness, like reading or finding inner silence. Perfect For • Professionals tracking work hours and projects. • Students managing study sessions. • Fitness enthusiasts timing workouts. Why TimeWatch ? Simple. Clean. Focused. TimeWatch keeps things easy so you can focus on what matters most—your time.
.shush
This app generates unique, real-time synthesized soundscapes to mask disruptive noises, promoting deeper sleep and enhanced focus. It intelligently analyzes your environment to create optimal audio at lower volumes and includes features for tinnitus relief and guided breathing.
- Real-time synthesized soundscapes
- Room acoustic analysis
- Smart sleep timer
- Tinnitus notch therapy
- Guided breathing exercises
- Adaptive audio optimization
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Shush the noise. Every noise app fights your room. Shush works with it. Quieter sound. Deeper sleep. WHAT MAKES SHUSH DIFFERENT • Works With Your Room, Not Against It Shush listens to your space and identifies the frequencies already there — HVAC hum, traffic, fans, appliances. Then it only generates what's missing. The result: full spectrum sound at lower volume, because your room is doing some of the work. No other noise app does this. • Helps You Fall Asleep, Then Gets Out of the Way Research shows broadband noise helps you fall asleep 38% faster. But the same research shows continuous noise all night costs you up to 19 minutes of REM sleep. .shush's smart timer helps you drift off, gently fades, then stops — so your brain can rest properly. • Synthesized in Real Time. No Loops. Ever. Every moment is mathematically unique. No recordings, no samples, no repeat points. Generated live using Apple's professional audio framework at 32-bit float. Your brain can't latch onto a pattern because there isn't one. • Adapts to Your Device .shush detects whether you're using iPhone speakers, headphones, or Bluetooth and optimizes the output for each. Warm and full on small speakers. Deep and rich in headphones. The same audio can't sound great everywhere — so we adapt. • Tinnitus Notch Therapy Match your tinnitus pitch for each ear independently. Set the filter width. The app removes those frequencies from the noise, based on clinical notched sound therapy research. A genuine therapeutic tool, not a preset. FEATURES Four noise types: brown, pink, green, white — all synthesized, never looped Smart sleep timer with gentle fade (research-backed approach to protect REM) Room acoustic analysis and spectral compensation Tinnitus frequency finder and per-ear notch filter Guided breathing (4-7-8, box, calm, relax) Automatic device detection and optimization Smooth tone control (never harsh) Background audio Dark and light modes No ads, ever WHY .SHUSH EXISTS A 2026 Penn Medicine study found that continuous pink noise at typical volume reduced REM sleep by 19 minutes per night — over 60 hours of lost REM per year. Every noise app on the market generates the same full broadband signal regardless of your room, forcing you to turn it up louder to compensate. Louder noise means worse sleep. Shush takes a different approach. By reading your room's existing sound and only adding what's missing, it achieves effective coverage at significantly lower volume. Sound when you need it. Silence when you don't. PERFECT FOR Sleep — fall asleep faster with low-level broadband that fades out to protect your REM Focus — block distractions and enter flow state Tinnitus — clinical notch therapy with per-ear frequency matching Baby Sleep — lower volume by design, with AAP-safe guidelines built in Travel — every hotel room sounds different, .shush adapts Relaxation — guided breathing paired with gentle noise to wind down BUILT DIFFERENT Shush uses vDSP Accelerate, Apple's professional signal processing framework. Every sample is generated using mathematically precise algorithms. Stereo channels are independently generated and decorrelated for natural spatial width. Processing is hardware-accelerated for minimal battery impact. Sound, shaped for you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://shushapps.com/terms Privacy: https://shushapps.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeWatch at none against .shush's 1. .shush's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price and device support 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. .shush sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. TimeWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.
TimeWatch ships an update every 2 weeks, .shush every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeWatch | .shush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maryam Davoodi | David Bennett |
In-app purchases
TimeWatch
No in-app purchases
.shush
- Shush Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month









