Comparison

Visual Time vs Wane Timer

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

Head to head
About

Visual Time

Visualize your progress through the day, week, month, and year with a simple dotted line. Set daily intentions and countdowns to important events. Keep your sense of time tangible and focused across your devices.

Highlights
  • Day, week, month, year progress visualization
  • Daily intention setting
  • Custom countdowns
  • iCloud sync
  • Home screen widgets
  • Mac menu bar app
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Dotted Line shows you exactly where you are in time, right now, and helps you decide what to do with what’s left. How far through the day are you? The week? The month? The year? Most of us have a vague sense, but Dotted Line makes it concrete. A simple row of dots, a percentage, and suddenly time feels real. Set a daily intention, count down to what matters, and keep your sense of time visible across iPhone, iPad and Mac. WHAT YOU GET · Day, week, month, and year progress. · Daily intention: set your focus each morning. · Custom countdowns for trips, deadlines, launches, birthdays, and anything you’re looking forward to. · Optional iCloud sync between iPhone and Mac. · Daily reminder to keep you grounded. · Clean, minimal design that stays out of your way. · Light, dark, or system theme. · iPhone, iPad and Mac app included. DOTTED LINE PREMIUM · Home screen widgets: glance at your time without opening the app. · Countdown widgets: keep your next event visible. · Custom colors: make it yours. · Mac menu bar app: keep your timeline, intention, or countdown visible from the menu bar. One-time purchase. No subscription. Ever.

About

Wane Timer

Features
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Turn the passage of time into a single bar across your screen. Counting down the minutes shouldn't mean doing math in your head every time you check. With Wane, you just look at the bar — and you know how much time is left, instantly. WHAT IT DOES - Switch between countdown and count-up - Set time by duration or by a specific end time - Save your go-to presets (5 min, 25 min, 1 hour, etc.) - Brown noise playback to help you focus - Toggle numbers on or off - Three bar sizes to fit your screen - Lock screen and home screen widgets - Live Activity support for at-a-glance tracking - Dynamic Island capsule shows your bar at all times GREAT FOR - Studying or deep focus sessions - Cooking and workout timing - Pomodoro-style work blocks - Keeping your social media or short-video scrolling in check - Anyone who prefers to feel the passage of time rather than read it Even with another app open, a glance at the Dynamic Island tells you exactly how much time is left. Perfect if "just five minutes" on social media keeps turning into an hour. Simple enough to use every single day.

Screenshots

Visual Time4 screens
Wane Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wane Timer at none against Visual Time's 1. Visual Time's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Visual Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wane Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Time ships an update every 2 weeks, Wane Timer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Visual Time versus Wane Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual TimeWane Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikola NovakovicShun Okawa

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Time

One-time1
  • Dotted Time$1.99
None

Wane Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Time free?
Visual Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wane Timer free?
Wane Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual Time or Wane Timer have ads?
Neither Visual Time nor Wane Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Time or Wane Timer?
Visual Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and Wane Timer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Visual Time was updated on September 19, 2026 and Wane Timer on September 14, 2026.

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