Comparison

Minimal Full Timer vs Waimea

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

Head to head
About

Minimal Full Timer

Features
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Minimal Full Timer: Full-Screen Giant Digital Clock & Countdown Timer Need a clean, distraction-free full-screen timer display with giant digits that you can read from across the room? Minimal Full Timer transforms your phone or tablet into a sleek digital desk clock, countdown timer, and stopwatch. Designed with tap-to-reveal controls that automatically fade out, Minimal Full Timer keeps your focus entirely on what matters—whether studying, working out, presenting, or relaxing. Key Features 1. Giant Full-Screen Display: Massive, crystal-clear digits optimized for readability from any distance or angle on your desk or nightstand. 2. 3 Essential Modes: Seamlessly switch between Digital Clock, Countdown Timer, and Count-up Stopwatch with a single tap. 3. Tap-to-Reveal Controls: Intuitive controls appear when you tap the screen and fade out automatically, leaving zero visual clutter. 4. Screen Keep-Awake (Wakelock): Prevents your device display from dimming or sleeping while the timer or clock is active. 5. Dynamic Light & Dark Themes: Toggle between crisp white light mode and deep OLED dark mode for nightstand use. 6. Sound & Haptic Alerts: Audio alarm and subtle haptic vibration when your countdown completes. Recommended For - Students and deep workers seeking an aesthetic, distraction-free Pomodoro study clock. - Presenters, speakers, and teachers needing a bold full-screen countdown visible across large rooms. - Fitness enthusiasts tracking workout intervals, HIIT, and meditation sessions. - Anyone looking for a minimalist nightstand digital clock for their phone or tablet. Download Minimal Full Timer today and enjoy the ultimate full-screen clock experience!

About

Waimea

This app anchors alarms to specific locations and their time zones, ensuring they ring at the intended local time regardless of your current location. It offers a world clock with saved places, home screen widgets, and Apple Watch integration for managing your schedule across different time zones.

Highlights
  • Time zone-anchored alarms
  • World clock with saved places
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Sunrise and sunset alarms
  • Flexible repeat options
  • Per-alarm custom sounds
Features
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Waimea is an alarm app for people who live across time zones. Every alarm is anchored to a place. Set 9:00 AM in San Francisco and it rings at San Francisco's 9:00 AM, whether you are home, in Tokyo, or somewhere over the Pacific. Ordinary alarms fire on whatever your phone's clock says. That breaks the moment you travel: "wake at 7" becomes 7 in the wrong zone. Waimea pins each alarm to the time zone you meant, so your routine, your reminders, and your meeting nudges all stay where you put them. WHAT YOU GET • Timezone-anchored alarms. Each one carries its own zone and rings at that local time, anywhere in the world. • A world clock that holds your alarms. Saved places appear as cards with live local times. • Real ringing alarms. On supported devices they ring through silent mode and Focus, with a full-screen Stop and Snooze. Elsewhere they arrive as notifications. • Home Screen widgets. Small, medium, and large, showing your current time and place, your next alarm with a live countdown, and clocks for your saved cities. • Apple Watch app and complications. Your next alarm and its countdown, on your wrist. • Flexible repeats. Daily, weekdays, custom days, monthly, or one time only. • Per-alarm sounds, including a classic bugle Reveille. • Drag to reorder your places. The order carries through to your widgets. • Made for the world. 12 languages, 12 or 24-hour time, MM/DD or DD/MM dates, light or dark. • Sunrise and sunset alarms, with any offset before or after. ALARMS THAT FOLLOW THE SUN Set an alarm to sunrise or sunset instead of a clock time, and offset it however you like: an hour before sunset for golden hour, twenty minutes after sunrise, or right on the moment. The time shifts with the seasons on its own, so a golden hour alarm stays correct in June and December alike. Sunrise and sunset are worked out for each saved city from its own position, so an alarm pinned to Reykjavik follows Reykjavik's sun, not yours. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no servers. Everything stays on your device. Location is used only to work out which time zone you are in, and it never leaves your phone and paired Apple Watch. Set it once. Travel anywhere. Arrive on time.

Screenshots

Minimal Full Timer4 screens
Waimea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Waimea at none against Minimal Full Timer's shown. Waimea also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). Minimal Full Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minimal Full Timer ships an update every 7 months, Waimea every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Minimal Full Timer versus Waimea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimal Full TimerWaimea
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeulki EomKai Brabo

In-app purchases

None

Minimal Full Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Waimea

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minimal Full Timer free?
Minimal Full Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Waimea free?
Waimea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minimal Full Timer or Waimea have ads?
Minimal Full Timer shows ads; Waimea does not.
Which is updated more often, Minimal Full Timer or Waimea?
Minimal Full Timer ships an update every 7 months, and Waimea every 2 days. Most recently, Minimal Full Timer was updated on October 21, 2026 and Waimea on October 9, 2026.

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