Comparison

CookSync vs Kitchen Timer

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

Head to head
About

CookSync

Features
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CookSync helps you perfectly time your meals. Set multiple cooking timers for different dishes—pasta, rice, eggs, meat & more—so everything finishes at the same time. Designed for modern home cooks who want precision, ease, and a stress-free kitchen experience. Key Features • Multi-timer synchronization: Plan and sync multiple dish timers to finish together. • Built-in presets: Quickly set timers for common foods like pasta, rice, vegetables, eggs, and meats. • Live Activities & Lock Screen widgets: Stay updated without unlocking your phone. • Push notifications: Never miss a timer alert. • Custom timer editing: Adjust times manually or save your own presets. • Intuitive design: Simple and elegant interface with dark mode support. • Background support: Timers run even when the app is closed. Why CookSync? Cooking multiple dishes at once is tricky—each has a different cook time, and syncing them is a hassle. CookSync handles that for you. Just choose your items, and it calculates when to start each so everything is ready at once. It’s like having a kitchen assistant who never forgets a timer. Built for home cooks CookSync is distraction-free: • No ads • No bloated features • Just clean, focused functionality Whether you’re cooking for one or preparing a holiday dinner, CookSync helps you feel more in control in the kitchen. Download CookSync today and start cooking smarter.

About

Kitchen Timer

Features
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Cooking three things at once while the oven clock tracks only one? KitchenTime is a kitchen timer built for real cooking: pasta, rice, tea and eggs counting down side by side, each with its own loud alarm. Most timer apps hand you a single countdown. KitchenTime hands you a board: up to 12 timers running at the same time, each with its own name, a big readable countdown and an alert that fires even when your phone is locked or the app is closed. WHAT YOU GET • Dinner where the pasta, the sauce and the roast veg all land together — up to 12 timers running side by side • A soft egg at exactly 6:00 from one tap — 10 kitchen presets covering pasta, rice, eggs, tea, steak rest and proofing dough • Your own “Roast chicken — 45 min” saved once, started in one tap every week after • An alarm that still rings with the screen off, the app closed, or even after your phone restarts • Start all and Pause all for the moment everything hits the stove at once • Countdown digits big enough to read from across the kitchen with wet hands PERFECT FOR • Home cooks juggling three pots and an oven • Parents lining up dinner, homework and bath time • Tea and coffee drinkers steeping more than one cup • Meal preppers batch-cooking a whole Sunday afternoon WHY NOT JUST THE CLOCK APP? The built-in timer runs one countdown and calls it “Timer”. When the rice, the eggs and the tea all need watching, one nameless countdown is how dinner burns. KitchenTime names every timer, runs them all at once, and tells you exactly which one just finished. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your timers and presets live on your phone and nowhere else. FULL ACCESS KitchenTime requires a Full Access purchase: an auto-renewing weekly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Full Access opens the entire app — up to 12 simultaneous timers, all 10 kitchen presets, custom timers up to 3 hours, and your own saved presets. Put a name and a countdown on everything you cook — get KitchenTime and run your first full board tonight. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia

Screenshots

CookSync4 screens
Kitchen Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

CookSync and Kitchen Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CookSync ships an update every 2 months, Kitchen Timer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CookSync versus Kitchen Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCookSyncKitchen Timer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaksym KiryanovLEAN ASIA CO., LTD

In-app purchases

None

CookSync

No in-app purchases

None

Kitchen Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CookSync free?
CookSync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kitchen Timer free?
Kitchen Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CookSync or Kitchen Timer have ads?
Neither CookSync nor Kitchen Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CookSync or Kitchen Timer?
CookSync ships an update every 2 months, and Kitchen Timer every 4 months. Most recently, CookSync was updated on September 22, 2026 and Kitchen Timer on October 7, 2026.

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