Thyme vs Breville+ Cooking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thyme
This app offers a simple and intuitive kitchen timer experience with a unique stove-like interface. It allows users to set multiple timers simultaneously for various cooking tasks, ensuring precise timing for delicious meals.
- Multiple timers simultaneously
- Stove-inspired UI
- Easy timer setting
- Hours and minutes support
- Modern design
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IT ONLY DOES ONE THING, BUT DOES IT VERY WELL. Over half a million home-chefs uses Thyme and knows that fine dining needs fine timing. “It gets the job done and makes those complicated meals a little bit easier." - Lifehacker “Thyme is a simple, yet cleverly designed app with an interface that looks like a kitchen stove and has a separate timer for each part..” - BuzzFeed “Thyme offers a unique combination of features that easily sets it apart from the rest.” - Beautiful Pixels Thyme is the simplest and easiest kitchen timer you could envision. It covers all your timer needs in the kitchen. This is so you can give full focus on that delicious food you’ve got cooking. Our kitchen timer gives you a simple and clean layout over your kitchen stove. Four hot plates on top and an oven in the front. To set a timer you simply tap it, swipe it. Boom! You’re done! It´s really that simple! Because fine dining needs fine timing. - The smart and simple UI makes setting new timers super easy. - Multiple timers running at the same time - Our timers support setting hours as well as minutes - Gorgeous and modern UI design that fits right in with iOS - It just works as you’d expect it to Since its launch in Christmas 2013 Thyme has won numerous awards and continues to receive critical acclaim.
Breville+ Cooking
Unlock the full potential of your Breville appliances with guided recipes, cooking classes, and expert cook guides. Features connected cooking with Autopilot for seamless meal preparation. Requires a compatible Breville appliance.
- Guided recipes from top culinary sources
- Cooking classes for skill development
- Cook guides for optimal ingredient preparation
- Autopilot for connected cooking
- Compatibility with select Breville appliances
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The Breville+ Cooking app unlocks the full potential of Breville appliances. Access guided recipes, cook guides, and classes, all tested and tuned for Breville countertop ovens, food processors, and the Joule Turbo Sous Vide or Joule Sous Vide. Breville+ Cooking features: Guided Recipes—Step-by-step instructions for recipes from the Breville Test Kitchen, ChefSteps, New York Times Cooking, Williams Sonoma, America’s Test Kitchen, Serious Eats, and our inspiring Joule Chef Partners. Classes—Tutorials to get you started, Instant Mastery classes to fast-track your kitchen skills, and opportunities to have all your burning cooking questions answered by our culinary team. Cook Guides—Shortcut instructions offer the best times and temperatures to cook your favorite ingredients. Autopilot—It’s connected cooking at its finest. The Joule Oven can take you through multiple phases of cooking without any extra work from you, while the Joule Turbo Sous Vide cooks your favorite proteins up to twice as fast as traditional sous vide. All free when you add or pair a compatible Breville appliance: Joule Oven Air Fryer Pro Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro Smart Oven Air Fryer Smart Oven Pro Smart Oven Pizzaiolo Joule Turbo Sous Vide Joule Sous Vide the Paradice 9 the Paradice 16 the Breville Sous Chef 16 the Breville Sous Chef 9 Shop now at https://www.breville.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Breville+ Cooking at 4.6 against Thyme's 3.0. Breville+ Cooking also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (4.5K vs 73). Thyme's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Breville+ Cooking holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breville+ Cooking has 4.5K ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Thyme's written reviews are positive against 43% of Breville+ Cooking's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Thyme ships an update every 10 days, Breville+ Cooking fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thyme | Breville+ Cooking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (73 ratings) | 4.6 (4.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better | 42.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 | 4.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thuy Gia Nguyen | Breville |
Customer experience
Thyme
Breville+ Cooking
In-app purchases
Thyme
No in-app purchases
Breville+ Cooking
No in-app purchases









