Better Timer vs NeuraTiM Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Better Timer
This app allows you to run multiple timers simultaneously and build repeating routines. Customize each timer with colors, icons, and sounds. Start timers from Control Center or Siri without opening the app.
- Run multiple timers simultaneously
- Build repeating routines
- Customize timers with colors and sounds
- Start timers from Control Center and Siri
- Background timer support
- Cute pastel design
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Run several timers at once, chain steps into routines that repeat on their own, and give every timer its own pastel color, icon, and sound. Better Timer is made for cooking, workouts, study sessions, and daily routines. NEW IN 1.3 • Live Activities: follow your timers on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and pause or stop them right there • System alarms on iOS 26: finished timers ring and show on screen, even when a Focus is on • Notification actions: add a minute or start the next step without opening the app MULTIPLE TIMERS AT ONCE Pasta, garlic bread, and tea, all counting down side by side. Each countdown keeps its own time, color, and completion sound, and you can pause one or add a minute without touching the others. ROUTINES THAT REPEAT Chain steps like Focus and Break, or Sprint and Rest, and choose how many rounds to run. Better Timer moves to the next step for you, or waits for a tap if you turn on Pause Between Steps. • Pomodoro cycles for studying and deep work • HIIT, Tabata, and circuit rounds • Recipes with several stages • Morning and evening routines MADE FOR EVERY DAY • Quick Timer: start a 1, 5, 10, or 30 minute timer in one tap • 16 pastel colors, plus an icon and sound for every countdown and step • Light and dark mode • Control Center controls on iOS 18 and later • Siri and Shortcuts: "Start Pomodoro in Better Timer" • Repeat Alerts, so a finished timer keeps reminding you until you respond • Timers keep running when you close the app FREE AND PRIVATE No ads, no subscriptions, and no account. Better Timer doesn't collect any data.
NeuraTiM Timer
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Give your workouts, focus sessions and everyday routines their own rhythm. NeuraTiM Timer brings interval timers, countdowns, a stopwatch, workouts, alarms and medication reminders together in one calm, practical app. REPEAT YOUR RHYTHM Set work and rest intervals, choose rounds or a schedule for selected weekdays, and save a routine to use again. Create HIIT, Tabata or Pomodoro-style sessions, stretch breaks and everyday reminders. BUILD YOUR WORKOUT Arrange exercises into circuits or sets with preparation time, rests and rounds. Add exercise notes and photos, follow the next step, and pause or skip when you need to. KEEP EVERY LAP Record stopwatch laps, compare split times and return to your last result. Use a countdown for cooking or a task, a weekday alarm for a routine, or medication reminders at the times you choose. MAKE IT YOURS Start a quick timer without saving, keep several timers running, customize sounds and colors, snooze an alert or chain one timer to the next. Share timers using a QR code or file and review completed runs in local history. Choose light or dark appearance and optional backgrounds in Watches & clocks, Modern, Space, Neuro and Nature styles. Select None or let Random choose a design each time the app opens. Timers and history stay on your device. Core timing works offline, with no account and no ads. Check a running timer with an iOS Live Activity on your Lock Screen and a home-screen widget. Background alerts depend on your device settings and permissions. Every feature is free. You can support the NeuraTiM project once or monthly; support unlocks nothing. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ · Privacy: https://timer.neuratim.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Better Timer at none against NeuraTiM Timer's 7. NeuraTiM Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. NeuraTiM Timer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. Better Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Better Timer ships an update fortnightly, NeuraTiM Timer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Better Timer | NeuraTiM Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hung Nguyen | Martin Tichovsky |
In-app purchases
Better Timer
No in-app purchases
NeuraTiM Timer
- NeuraTiM monthly support 1$1.001 Month
- NeuraTiM monthly support 2$3.001 Month
- NeuraTiM monthly support 3$5.001 Month
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- NeuraTiM monthly support 4$10.001 Month
- Small tip$1.00
- Medium tip$3.00
- Large tip$5.00
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