Stop the Timer vs Tap Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stop the Timer
Test your sense of time in this reflex challenge where you tap to stop a hidden timer. Compete in different game modes, track your progress, and aim for perfect stops. It's a simple yet challenging game of precision and focus.
- Hidden timer reflex challenge
- Three distinct game modes
- Scored to the hundredth of a second
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Progress tracking and achievements
- Offline play
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THE CLOCK HIDES. YOU COUNT. Tap GO. Count in your head. Tap STOP at exactly the right moment. That's it. That's the game. And it's way harder than it sounds. Stop the Timer is the viral stopwatch challenge, built into a real game for iPhone. No aiming, no puzzles, no luck. Just you and your sense of time. You've seen it all over your feed. Now it's your turn. THREE WAYS TO PLAY SUDDEN DEATH One life. Each round the target gets longer and the timing gets stricter. Chain PERFECT stops, build a streak, and see how deep you can go before one miss ends it all. LADDER Ten rounds, climbing from 1 second to 10. Every hundredth you're off adds up. Lowest total wins. Two minutes, endlessly replayable. FREE PLAY Make your own game. Set the timer, pick the target, choose how the answer is revealed. Practice on your own or pass the phone around and settle it with friends. FAIR DOWN TO THE HUNDREDTH Stop at 10.01 and the game says 10.01. Every stop is scored to the hundredth of a second, so a PERFECT is real bragging rights. You always see your target, your time, and exactly how close you came. PICK YOUR CHALLENGE • Easy: the timer stays visible the whole time • Medium: a quick peek, then it hides • Hard: fully hidden, no help. The real flex. Start easy. Train your inner clock. Then go for Hard. WATCH YOURSELF GET GOOD Track your best streak, your longest run, and how close you land on average. Earn all eight achievements. Beat your own best, then beat it again. FREE. OFFLINE. NO NONSENSE. • No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases • Plays anywhere: airplane mode, the subway, the couch • No account, no sign-up, no data collection • Small download, instant play Can you stop it at exactly 10.00? One way to find out.
Tap Timer
A simple yet challenging party game where players tap a screen to stop a timer as close to a target time as possible. Compete individually, in teams, or in tournament brackets.
- Goal challenge mode
- Tournament bracket competition
- Team play
- Customizable themes and colors
- Portrait/landscape lock
- No accounts or data collection
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Tap the screen. The timer starts. Tap again. It stops. That is the whole game, and it is harder than it sounds. Tap Timer turns your sense of time into a party game. Set a target, hide the digits, and find out who can stop the clock closest to it. No accounts, no waiting, no setup. Just one phone passed around a room. JUST YOU AND THE CLOCK A clean, precise stopwatch with a full screen digital readout. Start it, stop it, or let it keep counting across stops. GOAL CHALLENGE Pick a target like 5.00 seconds. The timer hides while it runs, so all you have is your own internal clock. Everyone takes a turn, then the results screen ranks who came closest. Land on the target exactly and the confetti does not stop. TOURNAMENT Bracket competition for the whole room. Shuffled seeding, automatic byes, and match by match elimination until one player is left standing. Accidental start? There is a retry. TEAMS Give each team a name and a color, split the room, and play team against team. Scores average across every member. BUILT FOR PASSING AROUND Every player gets a name and a color, and the whole screen turns that color on their turn. A brief pause between turns means nobody taps by accident, and the app always tells you who to hand the phone to next. MADE TO LOOK GOOD Seven segment digits, pixel art arcade panels, and six themes. Pick your own background and number colors, lock the game to portrait or landscape, and play with sound or in silence. No subscription. No ads. No accounts. No data collected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stop the Timer at none against Tap Timer's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Tap Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stop the Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stop the Timer against 5.0 for Tap Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Stop the Timer | Tap Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Covelo Tech | Christian Ayisi |
Customer experience
Stop the Timer
Tap Timer
In-app purchases
Stop the Timer
No in-app purchases
Tap Timer
- Tap Timer Pro Lifetime$4.99
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