Egg Timer vs BlueList
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Egg Timer
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You typed "egg timer" because there's a pot on the stove right now. Pick your yolk ā Runny, Soft, Jammy, Medium or Hard ā press Start, and BoilEgg pings you the moment your eggs are ready. No grey-ringed yolks, no watery whites, no cutting one open "just to check." Most egg timers hand you one fixed number and hope your kitchen matches it. BoilEgg starts from proven times, then adjusts for egg size and a cold-water start ā and when a cook lands too soft or too firm, you nudge the preset once and your corrected time sticks from then on. It even runs a mixed pot: jammy for your ramen, hard for the lunchboxes, everything finishing together. WHAT YOU GET ⢠Five donenesses, one tap ā a runny yolk for dipping, a jammy custard centre for ramen, or a hard egg for salads, each with its own dialed-in time ⢠Mixed-batch scheduling: pick several donenesses and BoilEgg tells you exactly when to drop each egg so they all come out at once ⢠Size and start aware: a small egg into boiling water and a large one from a cold pot get different clocks, automatically ⢠An alert the second time is up ā plus a drop reminder for every staggered egg ā even with your phone locked ⢠Taste, then tune: rate each cook "too soft," "perfect" or "too firm," and History shows exactly which way to move your next 30 seconds ⢠A five-minute cooling timer to stop carry-over cooking, and a plain-language food-safety guide based on USDA guidance PERFECT FOR ⢠Ramen cooks chasing that exact jammy, custardy centre ⢠Parents boiling soft for one kid and hard for the other in a single pot ⢠Meal preppers hard-boiling a dozen eggs without overcooked green rings ⢠Anyone who changed stove, town or altitude and suddenly "6 minutes" stopped working WHY NOT JUST USE THE CLOCK APP? A bare countdown doesn't know your eggs came straight from the fridge, doesn't add time for a cold-water start, can't stagger a mixed batch so it finishes together, and forgets everything the moment it rings. BoilEgg keeps the time you've tuned to your own kitchen. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your timings, history and kitchen profiles stay on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. FULL ACCESS BoilEgg Pro unlocks your complete cook history ā every egg, every setting, every rating ā and unlimited kitchen profiles, so a second home, a holiday rental or a high-altitude cabin each keep their own calibrated times. Choose the Weekly or Yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Put the pot on, pick your yolk, and press Start ā make tonight's egg the last one you second-guess. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia
BlueList
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Your recipe book and your shopping list, finally in the same app. Save your recipes, send the ingredients to your shopping list in one tap, plan the week's menu and carry your supermarket loyalty cards on your iPhone. RECIPES YOUR WAY ⢠Create recipes with a cover photo, time, servings, ingredients with amount and unit, and numbered steps. ⢠Split a recipe into parts (dough, filling, sauce) when things get serious. ⢠Import by pasting a link: BlueList reads recipe pages and YouTube videos and fills in the fields for you with AI. ⢠Search by name or by ingredient ā and find your recipes straight from iOS search too. NUTRITION, PER SERVING ⢠Calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre, shown as a ring on the recipe. ⢠Three sources, and BlueList tells you which one it used: read from the source website when you import, typed in by hand, or estimated from the ingredients. ⢠Approximate values: they don't replace labelling or professional advice. A SHOPPING LIST YOU'LL ACTUALLY USE ⢠Send a recipe's ingredients to a list in one tap: all of them, or only the part you're missing. ⢠Catalogue with more than 340 everyday products in 14 categories, with search and per-item notes ("brand X", "the big one"). ⢠Tick off what's already in the trolley and watch the progress: pending and bought. ⢠Give each list its supermarket's logo and recognise it at a glance: more than 300 chains across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia. COOKBOOKS AND WEEKLY MENU ⢠Group your recipes into cookbooks with a photo or colour cover. ⢠Plan breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in the calendar, by week or by month. LOYALTY CARDS ⢠Scan the barcode of your supermarket loyalty cards, or type the number in by hand. ⢠Show them full screen at maximum brightness: the scanner catches them first time. ON YOUR WATCH (Apple Watch) ⢠Open your shopping lists on the watch and tick off what you pick up. ⢠Show the barcode of your supermarket cards on your wrist. SHARE WITH WHOEVER COOKS WITH YOU (Premium) ⢠Send a recipe, a cookbook or a shopping list as a link. ⢠Shared lists update in real time: when someone at home ticks off the milk, you see it. ⢠Receiving and importing what other people share with you is free. FREE AND PREMIUM, NO SMALL PRINT Free: unlimited recipes, lists, cookbooks, calendar and cards, stored on your iPhone, plus up to 100 AI imports a month, shared between recipes and list photos. Zero ads, always. Premium: up to 500 AI imports a month (recipes and list photos), cloud backup and sync across your devices, and sharing recipes, cookbooks and lists. THE AI IMPORT, IN DETAIL Paste the link of a recipe page or a YouTube video and BlueList fills in the title, the photo, the time, the servings, the ingredients with their amounts and the numbered steps. The reading is done by a cloud AI, through our servers: it only receives the page's text, never your name or your email; it doesn't use that text to train models and deletes it within 30 days. It works on every compatible iPhone and iPad with an internet connection, and the app tells you how many imports you have left this month. ALSO 19 languages, light or dark theme, Siri shortcuts to open your lists or add an item, and not a single ad in any version. A free account is required (email, Google or Apple). You can delete it, with all your data, from inside the app. BlueList Premium has two plans: EUR 1.99/month or EUR 14.99/year in Spain, a 37% saving (the app shows the price for your country before you buy). Both renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel them in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://bluelist.uk/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://bluelist.uk/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Egg Timer at none against BlueList's 2. BlueList's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. BlueList sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Egg Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Egg Timer ships an update every 4 months, BlueList weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Egg Timer | BlueList |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 18.2 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEAN ASIA CO., LTD | Pedro Antonio Flores Casquet |
In-app purchases
Egg Timer
No in-app purchases
BlueList
- BlueList Premium$1.991 Month
- BlueList Premium Annual$12.991 Year









