Comparison

Visual 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

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

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

Visual Timer4 screens
Little Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Little Planner at 100% against Visual Timer's 33%. Little Planner also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.4). Visual Timer's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (108 vs 14). On price, update cadence, 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. Visual 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: Visual Timer has 108 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Visual Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Little Planner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Visual Timer versus Little Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual TimerLittle Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (108 ratings)4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings108 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.415.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApplorium LtdLittle Labs LLC

Customer experience

Visual Timer

All ratings106 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral4.7%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Little Planner

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Timer

One-time1
  • Visual Timer Unlock$5.99
1 purchases

Little Planner

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

Questions

Is Visual Timer free?
Visual 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, Visual Timer or Little Planner?
Little Planner is rated higher. Visual Timer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 108 ratings, while Little Planner averages 4.9 from 14 ratings.
Do Visual Timer or Little Planner have ads?
Neither Visual Timer nor Little Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Timer or Little Planner?
Visual Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Little Planner every 2 weeks. Most recently, Visual Timer was updated on October 25, 2026 and Little Planner on October 22, 2026.

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