Fill vs Bathyal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Fill
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Fill-Timer isn't just a countdown it makes time something you can actually see. Start a timer and watch the hourglass slowly fill up. Seasonal particles drift across your screen. When time's up, a gentle chime brings you back. Simple. Intentional. Calming. Timer ⢠Intuitive dial interface ā spin to set your time in seconds ⢠Animated hourglass ā sand grains fall and pile up as time passes ⢠Push notification when timer ends, even when the app is in the background ⢠Multiple alert sounds to choose from Seasonal Themes ⢠Spring: soft cherry blossom petals ⢠Summer: clear raindrops sliding down ⢠Autumn: drifting maple leaves and pumpkin season ⢠Winter: pure white snowflakes Premium Themes Unlock exclusive themes including Candy Cane, Soccer, Carnation, Colour Ball and more. Go ad-free and make Fill-Timer your own personal time space. Life Clock Enter your birthday and see how many seasons you have left. Not to create anxiety ā but to remind you to savour them. Available in English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish.
Bathyal
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Bathyal is a clepsydra ā an ancient water clock ā rebuilt for the deep sea. In the bathyal zone there is no day or night. No sunrise, no shadow, nothing to set a clock by. The only light is made by living things. Bathyal is the instrument that keeps time down there: a face of glowing concentric channels where every drop is a second, and time is material. Watch it work: ⢠Each second forms as a drop at the heartbeat and joins the ring ⢠A full ring of seconds distills into one minute ā and pours, visibly, down into the next channel ⢠Minutes pour into hours, hours into the day's two halves, days into months ā at midnight the whole cascade runs at once ⢠Once a year, the last drop of December sinks past the digits into the abyss, unmeasured Make it yours: ⢠Solid bands or beaded drops, sweeping or pulsing motion ⢠24-hour or 12-hour time ā 12-hour splits the hours at the meridian into a morning ring and an afternoon ring ⢠Calendar rings for the month and year, or a Monday-first week ring whose weeks are spent, not kept ⢠Run the midnight cascade demo any time from the settings On your wrist: ⢠A full-screen water clock for Apple Watch ā seconds, minutes, and hours in the same adjacent channels ⢠Add Bathyal as a complication; the live rings sit on any face and rewrite themselves as the day moves. No two times look the same ā that is the instrument, not a hand on a circle ⢠Hold the Watch face for settings. Pulse or sweep, 12- or 24-hour time, and an optional Monday-first weekday ring. Hours, motion, and the week calendar also travel from the gear on iPhone On the Lock Screen: ⢠Add Bathyal as a Lock Screen widget ā live rings, a different pattern for every minute, the same figure as the Watch complication ⢠Hours, motion, and the weekday ring follow from the gear Quiet by design: ⢠Completely free, no accounts, no ads, no tracking ā it never connects to anything ⢠Works fully offline ⢠Keeps the screen awake on a desk or bedside table If the instrument keeps good time for you, you can send a drop ā a small tip ā and the face answers with the benefactor tinctures: other colors of bioluminescence, and a single grain of sand set on the seabed of the dial. Drops become months.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fill at daily against Bathyal's every 10 days. Bathyal's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Fill sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Bathyal sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fill ships an update daily, Bathyal every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fill | Bathyal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily ā better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cheng Hung Lo | Stephen Zinn |
In-app purchases
Fill
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Premium Scenes$1.99
- Bundle Package$2.99
Bathyal
- Tip Small$1.99
- Drop: The Benefactor's Drop$2.99
- Large: A Current$9.99









