StudiesTimer vs Shinun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StudiesTimer
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Study like it counts. StudiesTimer turns study time into something you can see, share, and compete on. Start a timer, tick off what you finished, and watch your hours stack up next to your friends'. THREE TIMERS, ONE APP • Pomodoro — work and break blocks, any length you want. Not locked to 25 minutes. • Countdown — set a target and go. It keeps counting past zero, because you usually do too. • Stopwatch — open-ended sessions for when you don't know how long you'll last. STUDY WITH PEOPLE, NOT ALONE • Add friends and see who actually put the hours in this week • Start a study group with its own chat and shared schedule • Climb a global leaderboard that moves while you study • Go head to head with a friend in a live session A TASK LIST THAT LIVES WHERE YOU STUDY Write down what you're doing before you start. Tick it off when it's done. No app-switching, no separate to-do list to keep in sync. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT • Hours by subject, by day, by week • Streaks that break only when you actually miss • Levels, ranks and achievements earned from real hours • Share cards worth posting after a good week ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Home Screen widgets show today's total at a glance. A Live Activity keeps the running timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never have to open the app just to check the time. WHAT'S FREE The timer, your tasks, streaks, friends and the leaderboard. No trial, no countdown, no card. WHAT PREMIUM ADDS • Your whole history, not just the last stretch • The full analysis of where your hours go • Unlimited subject labels and goals • Start your own groups and study buddies • Every export, and no ads SUBSCRIPTION • Weekly — $4.99 per week • Yearly — 7 days free, then $47.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://studiestimer.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://studiestimer.com/privacy
Shinun
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Shinun helps you remember what you study, with flashcards you make yourself and spaced repetition that schedules your reviews. Free: one deck, five cards in it, two study sessions a day. Pro removes those limits for a one-time purchase, with no subscription. Study offline, without an account and without ads. SEE WHERE YOUR ANSWER DIFFERS • Type the answer instead of guessing whether you were close • Each answer is marked correct, almost correct or wrong • Accents and small typos in longer words are forgiven. Letters that differ are underlined IMPORT AND EXPORT • Paste a list: Shinun detects the separators and shows a preview before anything is saved • CSV and TSV files from a spreadsheet or your files • Text decks from .apkg files, with a field mapping step • Export your decks • Share a deck as a read only link. Only that deck is uploaded, and only when you tap Share HEBREW AND MIXED TEXT • Each side of a card has its own text direction, so Hebrew on the front and English on the back both read correctly • Hebrew, Arabic and Latin script can share one card SPACED REPETITION • FSRS, a modern scheduling algorithm, runs on your phone • Four grades, each showing when the card will come back • Cards you miss come back in the same session • A forecast of what falls due over the next 30 days • Retention and review statistics STUDY OFFLINE • Everything works offline except sending or opening a shared link • No account. Your decks stay on your phone • A home screen widget with the number of cards due today • Siri and Shortcuts can start a review or tell you how many cards are due • Light and dark themes, 15 languages, and a card text size you set per deck WHAT PRO ADDS • All four study modes are free: flip, typed answers, multiple choice and match. So are FSRS scheduling, stats, every import option, export and the small widget • Pro: unlimited decks, cards and sessions, reverse cards, a custom retention target, and the medium and Lock Screen widgets • On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence and iOS 26 or later, Pro can also turn a paragraph of notes into cards on the device, in the languages Apple Intelligence supports • Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription. Restore it on your other devices with the same store account Starter decks to begin with: 1,000 common Hebrew words, Hebrew example sentences, and 1,000 words each of Spanish, French and Arabic, all with English answers. The free version copies the first five cards of a starter deck; Pro copies the whole deck.
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Verdict
StudiesTimer and Shinun are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. StudiesTimer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Shinun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | StudiesTimer | Shinun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hussein Ali El Gazouini | Ben Basha |
In-app purchases
StudiesTimer
- Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$47.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$79.99
Shinun
- Shinun Pro$9.99









