Comparison

TimerCoach vs Dreamwave Radio

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

Head to head
About

TimerCoach

Features
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Train with a timer that keeps up with you. Build HIIT, Tabata, kettlebell, yoga or circuit sessions with your own warmup, work, rest, cooldown and rounds. STAY IN CONTROL • Start and control workouts from Apple Watch • Follow the timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Hear voice cues while your own music keeps playing MAKE EVERY SESSION YOURS • Save and share custom workouts without an account • Plan sessions and set reminders • Check your form with the front-camera overlay while the timer stays visible • Put your timer on a TV with AirPlay • See your training history and streaks No ads. No account. Your workouts and history stay on your device. Pseudonymous usage analytics help improve TimerCoach.

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Dreamwave Radio

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Most sleep apps hand you a fixed playlist and a monthly bill. Dreamwave Radio hands you a mixing desk. Layer rain over a fireplace. Put a fan under a night train. Set the level of each sound independently until it sounds like the room you actually want to fall asleep in. Twenty-seven sounds, and every one of them is included. MIX UP TO THREE SOUNDS AT ONCE Not a playlist, a mix. Pin up to three stations and set each level on its own fader. Rain on a tent over distant thunder. Night wind under a fireplace. Or Slow Drift on its own: thirty unbroken minutes that stay even from the first minute to the last, for nights when nature sounds are too busy. The combination is the point. SOUNDS THAT NEVER REPEAT Most sleep apps play a recording on a loop, and at 3am you hear the join. Night Wind gusts on three cycles that never line up. Distant Rain places every drop somewhere new. Cat Purr pauses when a cat would. The app builds these sounds as it plays them, so there is no join to hear. The recorded ones are cut to run seamlessly, so a long night is one continuous sound rather than a track that keeps starting over. SEVEN NOISE COLORS White, Pink, Deep Hush, Grey, Green, Blue and Violet. Which one works is personal, especially for masking tinnitus, so the whole set is here rather than the usual three. JUST ASK "Play rain in Dreamwave Radio." "Set a sleep timer." "Give me fifteen more minutes." Siri starts a sound, adds one to the mix, or moves the timer without the app ever coming to the screen. Everything Siri can do is also a Shortcut, so a sound can start as part of your bedtime routine. A SLEEP TIMER THAT FADES Presets for the usual nights, or drag the scale to any duration from 1 to 120 minutes. The mix fades out instead of stopping dead, so the timer never wakes you on its way out. While it runs it sits on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so a glance tells you how long is left. BUILT FOR THE DARK Night mode dims the interface to almost nothing without disabling it. Every control stays reachable, so you are never poking at a black screen trying to turn the volume down. THE ROOM REACTS The background responds to what you are playing, so a glance tells you what is running without reading a single label. WORKS EVERYWHERE Plays in the background, over the lock screen, through AirPlay and Bluetooth, and mixes politely with other audio. iPhone and iPad, with a full-screen sound library on iPad. Available in nine languages, sound names included. PRIVACY IS ARCHITECTURAL, NOT A POLICY No account. No sign-in. No analytics SDK. No advertising SDK. No server component of any kind. Your pinned sounds and levels are stored on your device and nowhere else. There is nothing to collect, so nothing is collected. BUY IT ONCE One purchase, and the app is yours. No subscription, no renewals, no "premium" tier appearing later. Every sound is included from the first launch, and every sound added later comes with it. TERMS https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TimerCoach4 screens
Dreamwave Radio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TimerCoach at Free against Dreamwave Radio's $4.99. Dreamwave Radio's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

TimerCoach is free to download; Dreamwave Radio costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
TimerCoach versus Dreamwave Radio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimerCoachDreamwave Radio
PriceFree — better$4.99
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSidi Mohamed Idrissi YaghirAlexander Loth

In-app purchases

None

TimerCoach

No in-app purchases

None

Dreamwave Radio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TimerCoach free?
TimerCoach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dreamwave Radio free?
Dreamwave Radio costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TimerCoach or Dreamwave Radio have ads?
Neither TimerCoach nor Dreamwave Radio shows ads.

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