Comparison

Candle vs Shadowfetch

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

Head to head
About

Candle

This app uses a visual candle timer to help you stay focused during work or study sessions. Customize work and break durations to manage your time effectively with a clean, distraction-free interface.

Highlights
  • Adjustable work and break durations
  • Visual candle timer
  • Minimalist interface
  • Distraction-free design
  • Reset to defaults
Features
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Candle Pomodoro Timer is a beautifully simple focus timer that helps you stay productive while keeping calm. How it works: • Set your work duration, short breaks, and total sessions. • Watch the candle slowly melt as time passes. • Stay motivated with a clean and minimal interface. Features: • Adjustable work and break durations • Simple, distraction-free design • Visual candle timer that melts with time • Reset to defaults anytime Whether you’re studying, working, or just need structured focus sessions, Candle Pomodoro Timer helps you manage your time more effectively.

About

Shadowfetch

Features
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Shadowfetch keeps important dates visible, whether you are counting down to something ahead or counting up from something that already happened. Add a birthday, anniversary, trip, launch, deadline, ceremony, or personal streak. Shadowfetch sorts it, counts it live, helps you protect it with reminders, and gives you clean exports when you need a backup or handoff. Core features: - Count down to future dates with live days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds - Count up from past dates for anniversaries, sobriety streaks, product launches, and milestones - Pin a priority event so it leads the home screen and widget - See a Countdown Progress bar showing how far through the wait you are - Organize events by category: Birthday, Anniversary, Travel, Health, Deadline, Celebration, Milestone, Sports, Holiday, or Other - Create one-time, yearly, or monthly countdowns - Choose all-day dates or exact times - Use absolute time zones or local wall time - Schedule local reminder alerts before important events - Enable milestone notifications for notable countdown moments - Personalize events with a color or background photo - Keep a priority countdown visible with home screen and lock screen widgets - Share polished countdown or elapsed-time cards - Export all events as a spreadsheet-ready CSV - Share an Event Health Report summarizing reminders, pinned items, recurrence, categories, photos, stale records, and upcoming dates Shadowfetch is local-first. It does not require an account, does not include analytics or tracking, and does not upload your event data to a Shadowfetch-operated server. MOMENTS (NEW IN 1.7) Every other countdown app dies at zero - Shadowfetch makes zero the whole point. Events glow TODAY when the day arrives, erupt into confetti in their own color at the exact moment, and then retire to a Memories shelf that keeps the story alive: "127 days ago." One tap turns a finished moment into a count-up ("days since our wedding") or a yearly tradition. Anticipation, celebration, memory - all offline, all yours.

Screenshots

Candle3 screens
Shadowfetch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Shadowfetch at none against Candle's shown. Candle's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

Candle costs $0.99 and Shadowfetch $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Candle versus Shadowfetch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCandleShadowfetch
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerahmet celikRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

Candle

No in-app purchases

None

Shadowfetch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Candle free?
Candle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shadowfetch free?
Shadowfetch costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Candle or Shadowfetch have ads?
Candle shows ads; Shadowfetch does not.

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