The Turnkeeper vs Your Move
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Turnkeeper
This app helps speed up board game sessions by providing customizable timers for turns or entire games. It supports a large number of players and offers flexible time management options, including adding time per turn or to specific players. Features like crash protection and unlimited undo ensure a smooth gaming experience.
- Turn and game timer modes
- Supports 2-20 players
- Customizable time budgets
- Time added per turn
- Crash/reboot protection
- Unlimited undo functionality
- Notifications for time up
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Love board games, but wish turns moved a little faster? The Turnkeeper keeps games moving with flexible timers for 2 to 20 players. Use it casually to discourage endless turns, or competitively to give every player a fixed time budget. The Turnkeeper can be used as a simple turn timer or as a multiplayer game clock — like a chess clock built for the whole table. In Turn Timer mode, each player gets a set amount of time for every turn. It’s great for keeping casual games moving and encouraging players to think ahead while others are playing. In Game Timer mode, each player gets a total time budget for the entire game. You can optionally add extra time after each turn, similar to increment timing in chess. Features: • Supports 2 to 20 players • Turn Timer and Game Timer modes • Set timers from 1 minute to 10+ hours • Optional time added after every turn • Count-up or countdown timing • Clockwise, counter-clockwise, or freestyle turn order • Customize player names and colors • Mark defeated players to remove them from the turn order • Add or adjust time during a game • Adjust the per-turn time increment while playing • Loud time-up alerts • Notifications when time expires in the background • Unlimited Undo • Restore an active game after restarting the app • Rotate the game board during setup The Turnkeeper doesn’t automatically eliminate someone when their clock reaches zero. Their timer can continue into negative time, leaving the rules up to your group. Running out of time might mean losing the game, earning a penalty, or simply serving as a reminder to keep things moving. You can also give individual players extra time, making it easy to accommodate beginners or anyone who needs a little longer. Whether you’re trying to fit a game into a short amount of time, speed up a slow-moving session, or run a competitive multiplayer game with chess-style timing, The Turnkeeper helps keep everyone focused and the game moving.
Your Move
This app provides a simple and elegant turn timer for board games, supporting 2 to 10 players. It allows each player to have their own countdown, keeping game nights fair and efficient. No account or internet connection is required to use its features.
- Turn timer for 2-10 players
- Customizable player names, colors, and clocks
- Adaptive layout for any screen orientation
- Multiple turn order options
- Time increment and delay settings
- Auto-save and game saving features
- Customizable themes and sounds
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Your Move is a beautiful, no-fuss turn timer for board games — a chess clock for 2 to 10 players. Give everyone their own countdown, keep game night moving, and never argue about whose turn it is again. No accounts. No sign-up. No internet required. Just open it and play. HOW IT WORKS Each player gets their own region of the screen showing their remaining time. Tap your area to start your turn, tap again to pass to the next player. Whoever's active counts down — everyone else is frozen. It's the classic chess-clock experience, built for the whole table. BUILT FOR THE TABLE • 2–10 players, each with a name, color, and clock • Text rotates to face every seat, so players on all sides read their own timer right-side up • Adaptive layout fills the screen and re-divides instantly when you rotate the device or add a player • Big, legible digits you can read across the table PLAY IT YOUR WAY • Turn order: clockwise, counterclockwise, custom drag-to-reorder, or free-for-all • Add extra time each turn (increment) and a delay before the clock starts • Out of time? An alarm sounds and the clock keeps counting into the negative — no one gets eliminated • Give more time, add or remove a player, change the order, or undo a mistap — all mid-game NEVER LOSE A GAME • Every move auto-saves, so you can close the app and pick up exactly where you left off • Save multiple games and reload them anytime • Duplicate a setup to reuse your favorite configuration for the next game night MAKE IT YOURS • Light, dark, and colorful themes • Custom accent colors and a color for every player • Adjustable font sizes • Turn-switch clicks, time-out alarms with selectable sounds, and haptics — all with a volume knob and toggles Free to play with a single ad on launch. Prefer none? A one-time "Remove Ads" purchase turns them off for good. Perfect for strategy games, party games, tournaments, speed rounds, and anyone who wants to keep game night fair and fast. Grab your friends. It's Your Move.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Your Move at 5.0 against The Turnkeeper's 4.4. Your Move also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). The Turnkeeper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. Your Move sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Turnkeeper asks for nothing beyond the download.
Your Move holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Turnkeeper has 30 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of The Turnkeeper's written reviews are positive against 100% of Your Move's.
The Turnkeeper ships an update every 5 months, Your Move weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Turnkeeper | Your Move |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Geospike Pty Ltd | NATHAN XAVIER AAKER |
Customer experience
The Turnkeeper
Your Move
In-app purchases
The Turnkeeper
No in-app purchases
Your Move
- Remove Ads$3.99









