Thymer vs Jim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thymer
Design personalized workout and productivity routines with customizable intervals. Adjust colors, sounds, and repetitions to create complex nested timers. Quickly access standard timers for activities like Tabata or breathing exercises.
- Create custom routines
- Adjust colors, sounds, titles
- Set repetitions
- Complex nested timers
- Quick access standard timers
- Color-coded intervals
- Sound cues
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Create custom routines for your workouts and productivity with Thymer. You can create Routines as complex as you like, and adjust things like color, sounds, titles and repetitions. -- Usability -- You can color-code your intervals, so that you only need to glance at the screen to see where you're at. Or don't look at the screen at all, with a palette of sound cues. -- Quick Run -- Standard timers such as a Tabata timer or a breathing exercise timer are available through a quick access menu. -- Customize -- This isn't your standard interval timer. Go as deep as you like, and create the complex nested timers of your dreams.
Jim
This app provides daily 10-minute ab workouts designed to be quick, fun, and motivating. Users can track their progress, compete with friends, and improve posture while working towards visible abs.
- Daily 10-minute ab workouts
- Progress tracking
- Compete with friends
- Posture improvement
- Streak tracking
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Stop neglecting your core! Jim makes ab workouts quick, fun, and impossible to skip. Every day you get a new 10-minute ab workout to keep things fresh and keep you consistent. Lonely workouts? Feeling unmotivated? Jim is made for you. • Compete with friends and flex your streaks • Track every rep and see your progress • Improve your posture, build your foundation, and sculpt that six pack with ease Stronger, visible abs. All it takes is 10 minutes a day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Jim at every 4 days against Thymer's every 8 days. Jim also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Thymer against 5.0 for Jim. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.
Thymer ships an update every 8 days, Jim every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Thymer | Jim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Niclas Bodenmann | The Holmes Company of New York LLC |
In-app purchases
Thymer
No in-app purchases
Jim
No in-app purchases
