TimerCoach vs Dreamwave Radio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
TimerCoach
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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 โข Start and control workouts from Apple Watch โข Follow the timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island โข Hear voice cues while your own music keeps playing MAKE EVERY SESSION YOURS โข Save and share custom workouts without an account โข Plan sessions and set reminders โข Check your form with the front-camera overlay while the timer stays visible โข Put your timer on a TV with AirPlay โข See your training history and streaks No ads. No account. Your workouts and history stay on your device. Pseudonymous usage analytics help improve TimerCoach.
Dreamwave Radio
Create personalized soundscapes for sleep and relaxation by mixing up to three ambient sounds. Enjoy unique, non-repeating audio with customizable noise colors and a fading sleep timer. Designed for dark environments with privacy built-in.
- Mix up to three sounds
- Non-repeating, generative audio
- Seven noise colors
- Fading sleep timer
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
- Night mode interface
- Background playback
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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. Thirty-one 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. The seven noise colors never repeat within a night. 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 never starts by itself over audio that is already playing. 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/
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Verdict
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 ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
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.
| Parameter | TimerCoach | Dreamwave Radio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free โ better | $4.99 |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | โ | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | โ | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sidi Mohamed Idrissi Yaghir | Alexander Loth |
In-app purchases
TimerCoach
No in-app purchases
Dreamwave Radio
No in-app purchases









