Comparison

TimeWhisperer vs Tempo Spoken Timer

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

Head to head
About

TimeWhisperer

This hands-free timer app uses voice and haptic cues to guide you through timed activities without needing to check your phone. Create custom routines with multiple phases, sync them to your watch, and receive notifications for every change.

Highlights
  • Voice and haptic cues
  • Customizable routines
  • Apple Watch sync
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Control Center shortcuts
  • Always On display support
Features
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TimeWhisperer – Stay on track. Hands-free. TimeWhisperer keeps you on schedule with gentle voice announcements and haptic cues. No more checking your phone—whether you’re in the shower, in the kitchen, or mid-workout. Start faster from Home Screen Add TimeWhisperer widgets to jump into your last timer, last routine, or time announcement. Larger widgets show more of your saved choices—including announcement interval and routine steps. Use Control Center or long-press the app icon for the same quick starts. Keep the app open while you listen; voice needs TimeWhisperer in the foreground. Routines, synced to your wrist Build multi-phase sequences for stretches, workouts, or any timed routine. Each phase has its own duration, with optional rest between poses. Create routines on your iPhone—they sync to your Apple Watch—then run them from your wrist and follow along without looking. Voice and haptics when to switch On iPhone and Apple Watch, get voice cues, haptic feedback, or both at every pose and phase change. Start a routine and follow along by sound and feel alone. Ideal when you can’t glance at the screen—exercising, stretching, or moving around. On Apple Watch, choose your feedback style and adjust speech and haptics in dedicated Watch settings. Away from your phone, start the routine on Watch. Key Features • Home Screen widgets – Start last timer, last routine, or time announcement; larger sizes list more saved choices • Control Center & app icon shortcuts – The same quick starts from Control Center or a long-press on the icon • Routines – Custom multi-phase sequences with per-phase timers and optional rest between poses • Apple Watch – Full app with synced routines; voice, haptics, or both on your wrist • Always On display – Timer stays accurate when your wrist is down or the screen is dimmed • Haptics – Tactile cues for pose and phase changes, with adjustable strength on Watch • Voice announcements – On iPhone and Apple Watch; interval timers every 5–300 seconds on iPhone • Two timer modes – Custom durations or continuous time updates • Pre-loaded templates – Quick start for common activities • Custom durations & routines – Build and save your own • Voice options – Multiple voices, speed, and volume on iPhone; speech rate and volume on Watch • Background music – Timers continue while music plays • Session history – Track your usage over time • How Whisper Works – In-app guide for iPhone vs Watch, and keeping the app in the foreground for voice • Remove Ads – Optional one-time purchase to remove banner and interstitial ads • Simple interface – Progress indicators and clear controls Built for daily use TimeWhisperer fits into real routines: showers, cooking, meditation, stretches, workouts, and more. Start a timer or routine and let it guide you. No stress, no constant checking.

About

Tempo Spoken Timer

Features
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Tempo is a stopwatch, a timer and an alarm that tell you the time out loud. Start something, put the phone down, and a voice tells you how long you have been going — every minute, every five, at the quarter marks, or whenever you decide. No looking at a screen, no working out the arithmetic, no realising an hour later that it was an hour. It is built for anyone who loses track of time while they are concentrating, and for the days when a silent number on a screen is not enough to break through. WHAT IT DOES • Stopwatch — counts up, and says the elapsed time at your interval. • Timer — counts down to a length you set, tells you when you reach it, and keeps going into overrun instead of just stopping. • Alarm — a single spoken callout at a time you choose. • Up to four at once. Name them, and it says the name so you know which one just spoke. IT KEEPS TALKING Lock the phone, switch apps, put it in your pocket. Tempo carries on announcing. Music ducks for each announcement and comes straight back rather than stopping. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app runs the same sessions. Start on either device and both stay in step — one speaks, both tap. Drop your wrist and the haptics keep coming. ON THE HOME SCREEN A widget shows what is running and counts on its own. Start, pause and stop from it without opening the app, and when nothing is running it offers your recent sessions as one-tap starts. Live Activities put the same thing on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. THE WORDING Every line is written to be told the time, not told off. "Ten minutes on invoices." Never "you should have finished by now." The phrasing rotates so it does not become wallpaper you stop hearing. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Tempo has no account, no sign-in and no network code at all. Nothing you type or run leaves your devices. There is nothing to opt out of.

Screenshots

TimeWhisperer4 screens
Tempo Spoken Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tempo Spoken Timer at none against TimeWhisperer's 1. Tempo Spoken Timer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. TimeWhisperer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tempo Spoken Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
TimeWhisperer versus Tempo Spoken Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeWhispererTempo Spoken Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVeriluneHannah Lerner

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TimeWhisperer

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
None

Tempo Spoken Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimeWhisperer free?
TimeWhisperer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tempo Spoken Timer free?
Tempo Spoken Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimeWhisperer or Tempo Spoken Timer have ads?
TimeWhisperer shows ads; Tempo Spoken Timer does not.

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