Comparison

Chill Out Time vs Flow Timer

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

Head to head
About

Chill Out Time

This app helps children and adults learn to calm down and manage their time with a visual timer and a focus-enhancing game. It's designed by a special education teacher to assist those with ADHD, Autism, and Aspergers, offering a gentle way to practice timeouts or time specific activities.

Highlights
  • Visual hourglass timer
  • Calming music
  • Focus game with Moodzie
  • Leaderboards for game
  • Customizable time limits
  • Tips for calming
Features
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Everybody needs to learn how to chill out and especially children with ADHD, Autism and Aspergers! How about some chill out time with Moodzie, a cute little creature that is sensitive to the World? Perfect for children when they need a timeout to calm themselves or when a special activity needs to be timed in and out of the classroom! Great for children at heart to also use to monitor their own time out or important activities. Using this app is easy. Simply choose your activity to chill out with and allocate the time. Simply tap to start the timer and watch the sand drop gently through the hourglass while listening to beautiful calming music. The game included helps to focus attention away from negative feelings. Find the cute, happy Moodzie in the hourglass. How many times can you find him in the allocated time limit? It is a great game to help children focus and be calm. In addition, they can share their results on a leaderboard for positive reinforcement. Chill out time is an essential app to have in your collection and it will allow children and the child within to learn valuable skills in calming. Experience its transformative powers for yourself! Download the app today! App features: *Created by a Special Education teacher (over 25 years experience) and parent of a child with ASD. *Visit the free book and posters from our website to learn more about Moodzie. *Choose the time limit and activity you would like to do while chilling out. *Unlock a game to play while chilling out with one simple, affordable in-app purchase. You get to try it three times for free. *Leaderboards for the game are included to share with friends while in time out. *Improve your life and learn how to be calm and chill out with additional tips. *Twitter and Facebook integration for sharing this with friends and family. *Relax and listen to the healing music or watch the sand dropping through the hourglass. *Music from Mark Watson (Angel Earth Music), a friend of Doreen Virtue.

About

Flow Timer

This app uses calming animations to help you focus and track time for various activities. Set custom durations, choose themes and sounds, and create interval timers for study or workouts. It offers a distraction-free experience for mindful timing.

Highlights
  • Peaceful countdown animations
  • Customizable timer durations
  • Named timers for specific uses
  • Calming background and timer sounds
  • Themed visual preferences
  • Interval timers for Pomodoro/HIIT
  • Timer session tracking and badges
Features
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Water climbs. Sand falls. A picture appears. Flow Timer is a visual timer: it shows you time instead of telling you. Water that climbs the glass as you go, a sand timer whose grains really fall, or a picture that paints itself while you work. Glance at it and you know how long is left — no numbers to read, no arithmetic. BUILT FOR TIME BLINDNESS When minutes feel invisible — as they often do for people with ADHD — a shape you can watch beats a number you have to interpret. That is the whole design. Nothing flashes, nothing nags, nothing demands a decision. The timer simply keeps being visible until it is done. A TIMER WORTH LOOKING AT Most timers are ugly because nobody expects you to watch them. This one is made to be watched: hand-drawn scenes, five colour palettes, an hourglass with real falling sand, calming sounds, and a zen mode that clears away everything but the time. Leave it running on a desk or a second screen and it earns its place. IN THE CLASSROOM AND AT HOME Big enough to read from the back row, clear enough for a child who cannot read a clock yet. Transitions, tests, quiet reading, toothbrushing, screen time, bedtime wind-down. A visual countdown ends the "how long left?" question without anyone having to answer it. ALSO A GOOD STUDY TIMER Set any duration, name it, start it in one tap. Build interval sessions for pomodoro study blocks, workouts or circuits. Streaks, badges, a heatmap and monthly trends record where your focus actually went, from your very first session. OFFLINE, AND STAYS THAT WAY No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads. Flow Timer collects nothing about you because it has nowhere to send it — everything stays on your device unless you export a backup yourself. Available in 15 languages. ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Free covers the liquid mode, the sand timer, intervals, every duration, most sounds and your daily statistics. Flow Timer Pro is an optional one-time purchase — never a subscription — adding canvas timers with your own photos, binaural beats and focus tones, your complete history, and backup export. Buy it once and it is yours for good. Built by one person who wanted a timer worth looking at.

Screenshots

Chill Out Time4 screens
Flow Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flow Timer at 100% against Chill Out Time's 0%. Flow Timer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Chill Out Time's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chill Out Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Flow Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flow Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flow Timer has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Chill Out Time's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flow Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chill Out Time ships an update every 16 months, Flow Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chill Out Time versus Flow Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChill Out TimeFlow Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatalie ClarkeCodejuno Ltd

Customer experience

Chill Out Time

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Flow Timer

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chill Out Time

One-time1
  • Unnlock Chillout Time Game$0.99
None

Flow Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chill Out Time free?
Chill Out Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flow Timer free?
Flow Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Chill Out Time or Flow Timer?
Flow Timer is rated higher. Chill Out Time averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Flow Timer averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Chill Out Time or Flow Timer have ads?
Neither Chill Out Time nor Flow Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chill Out Time or Flow Timer?
Chill Out Time ships an update every 16 months, and Flow Timer monthly. Most recently, Chill Out Time was updated on September 24, 2026 and Flow Timer on October 3, 2026.

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