Visual Timer vs Roundi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Roundi
This app helps you focus on one task at a time using a visual timer that drains color. It offers strict modes to prevent distractions and allows you to save custom rituals for meditation, study, or work. Integrates with Siri and Apple Watch for hands-free control and progress tracking.
- Visual time draining with color
- Strict mode to enforce single-tasking
- Customizable rituals for different activities
- Pomodoro sequence support
- Siri integration for hands-free control
- Apple Watch app for on-the-go use
- Exportable PDF reports of focus time
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One round, one thing. Roundi holds you to a single task and shows the time as color: focus you can see. Turn the dial, press start, and a disc of color begins to disappear — like a kitchen timer for your attention. No numbers counting down unless you switch them on, no notifications pulling you back. Just time, visibly running out. THE ONE RULE In Strict mode, leave the app or lock the screen before the round ends, and the round is lost, instantly. That's the whole trick: Roundi doesn't block anything, it just makes leaving cost something. Too strict? Allow locking, so the round continues on the lock screen, or switch to Lenient mode. MADE FOR YOUR RITUALS • Meditate — 15 quiet minutes, watching the color fade • Study — a 50-minute block with no pings • Work — deep work sessions up to 2 hours • Train — planks, dead hangs, rest between sets Save each ritual as a tag and it becomes a one-tap start button with its own duration. POMODORO, IN SEQUENCE A tag can hold rounds and breaks: four 25-minute rounds with 5-minute breaks, say. Roundi runs the whole sequence, fills a ring through each break and shows where you are. REMINDED, NOT NAGGED Give a tag up to three reminders: a time and the days you want it. Tap the notification and the round starts right away. A missed one doesn't repeat. SAY IT, DON'T TAP IT "Start Plank in Roundi." Between rounds, Siri sets the length, starts a tag, adds another round, or tells you your streak. Hands free — and once a round starts, nothing interrupts you. ON YOUR WRIST Roundi runs on Apple Watch too. Turn the Digital Crown, tap START, and the color sweeps away on your wrist; a tap and a chime mark the end. Watch rounds land in your iPhone's calendar, Siri works on the watch, and one rule carries over: unlock your iPhone during a watch round and the round ends. A TIMER YOU'LL WANT TO LOOK AT Choose how time drains: a clockwise disc, a color that falls or rises across the whole screen, or a spiral coil that unwinds from the outside in. Six soft colors. A chime and a soft blink of color when the round completes. SOUND FOR THE ROUND Rain, a café, a ticking clock, a fan, a train, the sea: twelve sounds that loop for the whole round and fall silent for breaks. Pick one for a tag, or for rounds started from the dial, or play a file of your own. Set the volume from the speaker icon or on the running round, and tap the sound's name to mute it. EVERY ROUND, KEPT Finished rounds land as dots on your calendar, with your daily total and streak. Time becomes habit; habit becomes you. Did a round end by mistake while you kept going? Change its result; it's marked as edited. YOUR ROUNDS, AS A REPORT Pick a tag and a range of dates, and Roundi makes a PDF: focused time by day or week, rounds completed and rounds ended early, how you do by time of day, and every round listed. Keep it, or share it with a coach, a teacher or your doctor. ON EVERY DEVICE Your rounds, tags and settings follow you between iPhone, iPad and Mac through iCloud, end-to-end encrypted. Widgets put today's rounds and a one-tap start on your Home Screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Only you can read your rounds. Set a time. Stay focused. One round at a time.
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Verdict
Visual Timer and Roundi both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Roundi's written reviews are positive against 33% of Visual Timer's. Roundi also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Visual Timer's advantage is ratings volume (136 vs 5). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Visual Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Roundi asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Visual Timer against 4.6 for Roundi. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Timer has 136 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Visual Timer's written reviews are positive against 71% of Roundi's.
Visual Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, Roundi every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Timer | Roundi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (136 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 136 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Applorium Ltd | Yakppal, Inc. |
Customer experience
Visual Timer
Roundi
In-app purchases
Visual Timer
- Visual Timer Unlock$5.99
Roundi
No in-app purchases








