Comparison

30minTimer vs EVA Clock Nixie

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

Head to head
About

30minTimer

Features
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Ever look up and realize three hours vanished into one task? This app fixes that with a simple chime. Your iPhone chimes at the minutes you choose, like :00 and :30 every hour, so you can feel time passing without checking the clock. Chimes arrive as notifications, even when the app is closed. ■ Great for • Remote work: break the day into half-hour blocks • Study: focus for 50 minutes, rest when it chimes • Healthy habits: a sip of water and a stretch at every chime • Kids' routines: when the "Oh!" plays, it's time for the next thing ■ Pick your hours • Tap the hours you want, from 0 to 23 • "9–18" and "All hours" in one tap. Quiet at night ■ Up to two chimes an hour • Spin two wheels to pick the minutes • :00 and :30, :15 and :45, or just :50. Your call ■ 7 sounds, even a voice • Chime, Warning, and three Confirm tones • Male and female "Oh!" voices • Give each wheel its own sound: a chime on the hour and an "Oh!" at half past • Tap a name to preview ■ Three simple steps 1. Pick your hours and minutes 2. Tap the big "Apply" button at the bottom 3. It chimes automatically, every day Send a test notification to hear it in 10 seconds. ■ Free, with minimal ads • Ads never interrupt your chimes • Your first "Apply" is ad-free • Later changes are saved after a short video ad • Turning notifications on/off and "Clear all" are always instant and ad-free ■ Privacy • Your settings stay on your iPhone • Chimes are local notifications scheduled on your iPhone. No developer server is involved Available in English, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese. Note: in Silent mode or a Focus, sounds may not play, following your iPhone settings.

About

EVA Clock Nixie

Features
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A nixie tube clock for your iPhone or iPad. The glowing orange digits are not photographs. Every bend of every numeral, and every wire stacked behind it, is drawn from scratch. Each digit is built as a single bent wire, and three layers - bloom, midtone, and glowing core - stack up to make that particular orange light. The digits that are not lit are still there, as a faint stack of ten numeral-shaped cathodes behind the glowing one. As the time changes, lit and unlit tubes quietly trade places. Turn the device sideways and the tubes fill the screen. It is meant to sit on your nightstand or desk as the clock itself. WHAT IT DOES - Home Screen widgets showing hours and minutes, in a small square or a wide rectangle - they work in StandBy too - Switch between 12-hour and 24-hour display - Hourly chime, with a three-second countdown tone and adjustable volume (it respects the silent switch) - Keep the screen awake while the clock is showing - Dim the display for night use - Protect OLED displays by shifting the clock a few points every few minutes ABOUT THE WIDGET It sits on your Home Screen or in StandBy. It shows hours and minutes; seconds do not move. iOS decides when widgets refresh, so the displayed time may lag slightly behind. Lock Screen widgets are not supported - the Lock Screen renders widgets without color, and nixie tubes do not survive that. USING IT Tap the screen to open the settings. There are no other buttons - you get the clock and nothing else. PRIVACY This app collects nothing. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising. It performs no network communication at all. Your settings are stored only on your device. REQUIREMENTS iOS 17.0 or later / iPadOS 17.0 or later Also available for Mac under the same name.

Screenshots

30minTimer4 screens
EVA Clock Nixie2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: EVA Clock Nixie at none against 30minTimer's shown. EVA Clock Nixie also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

30minTimer ships an update every 10 days, EVA Clock Nixie every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
30minTimer versus EVA Clock Nixie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter30minTimerEVA Clock Nixie
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerhidenobu akiyoshiFutoshi Ebata

In-app purchases

None

30minTimer

No in-app purchases

None

EVA Clock Nixie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 30minTimer free?
30minTimer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EVA Clock Nixie free?
EVA Clock Nixie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 30minTimer or EVA Clock Nixie have ads?
30minTimer shows ads; EVA Clock Nixie does not.
Which is updated more often, 30minTimer or EVA Clock Nixie?
30minTimer ships an update every 10 days, and EVA Clock Nixie every 5 days. Most recently, 30minTimer was updated on October 24, 2026 and EVA Clock Nixie on October 15, 2026.

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