Comparison

HearTime vs Timer

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

Head to head
About

HearTime

This app provides spoken timers for workouts and daily tasks, allowing users to maintain pace without looking at their screen. It offers features like automatic counting with compatible headphones, customizable routines, and Siri integration for hands-free control.

Highlights
  • Spoken stopwatch and countdown timers
  • Automatic jump rope and squat counting
  • Multi-step routines with rest periods
  • Nine offline synthetic voices
  • Siri and App Shortcuts integration
  • Lock Screen status with Live Activities
Features
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HearTime is a spoken timer for workouts and everyday routines. Keep your pace without watching the screen during training, stretching, recovery exercises, cooking, or focused tasks. - Automatic jump rope and squat counting with compatible AirPods that support head tracking - Practice calendar with daily history and weekly and monthly summaries - Collections to organize related timers and practice through rounds - Timer library backup and restore in Settings - Background images for your presets and routines - Share timers and routines as text, or import from the clipboard with a preview Key features: - Free stopwatch and countdown timers - Reusable timer presets - Multi-step routines with configurable group rests - Nine pre-generated synthetic voices that play offline after installation - Adjustable announcement intervals, beats, speech rate, and enhanced volume - Quick control with Siri and App Shortcuts - Timer status on the Lock Screen with Live Activities - Background audio, portrait and landscape layouts, Dynamic Type, and VoiceOver support Spoken number meditation helps you follow a breathing rhythm. Follow a breathing rhythm by ear, or drop a meditation step into a routine you already use. HearTime remains a spoken timer, not a meditation course. HearTime requires no account and contains no ads. Optional anonymous usage analytics can be turned off in Settings. Your presets, routines, timer history, and settings stay on your device by default. The free version includes the core timer experience. A one-time HearTime Pro purchase permanently unlocks additional presets, routines, and advanced features. It is not a subscription. Share presets, Routines, and meditations as text. Import from the clipboard with a quick preview, or describe a workout to an external AI, bring the result back, and save after you confirm. Try HearTime Pro free for 7 days, with no automatic charge when the trial ends. You can also preview a Pro session for 30 seconds.

About

Timer

Features
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An interval timer for routines you build yourself: any number of steps, in any order, repeated as often as you like, with your own voice and your own pictures. Free. No advertising, no purchases, no subscription. A COUNTDOWN YOU CAN READ ACROSS THE ROOM One number, as large as the screen allows. The exercise plays in a band above it while you copy the movement, and a bar along the bottom shows every round, step and rest at once — so you always know how much is left. YOUR OWN VOICE Record a note for any step and hear it the moment that step arrives. Where you have not recorded one, the phone reads out the step's name as it begins, so you are never guessing what to do next. IT WORKS WITH THE SCREEN OFF The cues sound with the phone locked and in your pocket, and they sound through the silent switch. A timer that goes quiet when you need it is not a timer. TWO ROUTINES TO START WITH A back stretch and an active workout, filmed and ready to run. Change them, or build your own from nothing: your steps, your durations, your rests, and a video or a photograph behind each one. SIX COLOUR THEMES The original gold, plus Aquatic, Nature, Candy, Energy and Lagoon. Chosen in the settings, applied everywhere the app draws — the running screen included. Every one is measured for contrast, so the countdown reads the same in pink as it does in gold. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE No account, no sign-in, no analytics. The app holds no network permission at all, so it could not send anything anywhere even if it were asked to. Your recordings and your pictures stay in the app's own storage and are deleted with it. MADE TO BE USED MID-SET Large type, high contrast, full VoiceOver support with each phase announced as it changes, and haptics for when the ear misses a cue. Twenty-seven languages.

Screenshots

HearTime4 screens
Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timer at none against HearTime's 1. On price, ads, device support 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. HearTime sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HearTime versus Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHearTimeTimer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer平 丁Bertrand de Coatpont

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HearTime

One-time1
  • HearTime Pro Lifetime$9.99
None

Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HearTime free?
HearTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timer free?
Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HearTime or Timer have ads?
Neither HearTime nor Timer shows ads.

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