Comparison

Visual Timer vs Grattis

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

Head to head
About

Visual Timer

This app offers a visually engaging countdown timer with multiple unique styles to represent the passage of time. Customize colors, backgrounds, and alarm sounds for various activities like focus work, cooking, or kids' routines.

Highlights
  • Nine unique visual timer styles
  • Customizable colors and backgrounds
  • Over 50 alarm sound options
  • Adjustable durations from seconds to hours
  • Presets and recent duration quick-picks
  • Designed for focus, cooking, kids, and workouts
Features
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Visual Timer - Time you can actually see Make every minute count with a timer that's actually worth looking at. Visual Timer turns the wait into the show: nine beautiful, hand-crafted styles that each visualize time in a different way. Pick your style: • Circular - a classic clock-face wedge that drains as time runs out • Liquid - a wave-tinted pool that drains as the clock ticks • Pixel - a grid of pixels disappears one by one • Rain - thousands of tiny grains rain down and pile up to fill the screen • Blocks - falling pieces stack up to fill the screen • Maze - a snake winds across the screen until it fills every cell • Rings - concentric rainbow rings, one per minute, leaving a colored trail • Sun - the sun arcs across the sky, drifting from dawn through dusk to night • Path - a dot glides along a trail — follow the built-in curve or draw your own • Spread - a colorful infection blooms from a few seeds until it fills the screen Make it yours: • Pick any color for the timer fill or background • Use your own photos as a backdrop or foreground • Choose from 50+ alarm sounds, from a gentle chime to a rooster • Custom durations from a few seconds to several hours • Quick-pick recent durations and built-in presets Built for any moment: • Focus and deep work - visual progress without distraction • Cooking - set it on the counter and just glance over • Kids - turn time-outs, brushing teeth, or screen-time limits into something they actually watch • Workouts - clear interval timing without staring at numbers • Meditation - calm, smooth visuals that don't pull attention • Studying - Pomodoro sessions that look like part of the desk A timer that feels at home on your phone. Designed top-to-bottom for iOS - Liquid Glass controls, fluid animations, and dark-mode-first aesthetics.

About

Grattis

Features
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Grattis helps you remember birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and the days that matter—and makes it easy to send personalized digital birthday cards directly from the app. Add important dates to a beautiful circular year view and see what is coming up at a glance. Grattis keeps track of ages, recurring dates, zodiac signs, and birthday reminders, so you have time to plan before the day arrives. You can import birthdays from Calendar, customize reminders, add photos or emoji, share selected days with other Grattis users, and keep upcoming dates on your Home Screen with the widget. Simple, personal, and built for the moments you do not want to miss.

Screenshots

Visual Timer4 screens
Grattis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grattis at none against Visual Timer's 1. Grattis also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Visual Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grattis asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, Grattis weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Visual Timer versus Grattis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual TimerGrattis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.418.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApplorium LtdVictor Keinander

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Timer

One-time1
  • Visual Timer Unlock$5.99
None

Grattis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Timer free?
Visual Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grattis free?
Grattis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Timer or Grattis have ads?
Neither Visual Timer nor Grattis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Timer or Grattis?
Visual Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Grattis weekly. Most recently, Visual Timer was updated on September 20, 2026 and Grattis on September 28, 2026.

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