Magic Cube Timer vs XCube Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Cube Timer
This app is a fast and elegant timer designed for speedcubers to track their progress. It logs solves, provides statistics like averages and best times, and allows for customization of inspection time and themes.
- Log and track cube solves
- View solve history with scrambles
- Detailed solve statistics (averages, best/worst times)
- Customizable inspection time
- Multiple themes for design customization
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Magic Cube Timer is a simple, elegant and fast cube timer app developed for speedcubers. Get this timer on your device to solve cubes anywhere and anytime while keeping track of your progression, your averages, your best times, and a lot more. Give a new breath to your solves and start improving like never before with Magic Cube Timer! Features : - Log and track your cube solves. You are provided with a new scramble every solve. - View a list of all your solves. Each solve has information about the date it was timed and what scramble was used. - View statistics about your solves: Best time, Worst time, Average of 5, Average of 10 Average of 12 etc. - Customize inspection time between 0 - 30 seconds. - Select from 8 themes to customize the app's design to your liking
XCube Timer
This app provides a distraction-free timer for speedcubers to track their solves, organize practice sessions, and analyze performance with detailed statistics. It helps users improve consistency and focus on achieving personal bests.
- Distraction-free timer
- Track and manage solves
- Organize practice by sessions
- Detailed performance statistics
- Analyze trends and consistency
- Export and import data
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XCube Timer is a clean and focused cube timer built for speedcubers who want a simple way to track solves, review progress, and train with better insights. Track every solve with a fast and distraction-free timer, organize your practice into sessions, and explore detailed stats to understand your performance over time. Review recent solves, averages, trends, time distribution, and session comparisons in a clear interface designed for everyday practice. With XCube Timer, you can: - Save and manage your solves with ease - Organize training by sessions - Track averages and personal progress - Analyze trends and consistency - Review solve details and history - Export and import your data Upgrade to Pro to unlock advanced statistics and a deeper view of your training. Whether you are learning, getting faster, or chasing your next personal best, XCube Timer helps you stay consistent and focused.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Magic Cube Timer at 93% against XCube Timer's 50%. Magic Cube Timer also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). XCube Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 31 months). 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
Both are free to download. XCube Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Magic Cube Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Magic Cube Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Cube Timer has 67 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Magic Cube Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of XCube Timer's.
Magic Cube Timer ships an update every 31 months, XCube Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magic Cube Timer | XCube Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (67 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Emrah Kavak | Bruno Morgan |
Customer experience
Magic Cube Timer
XCube Timer
Bugs and requests
Magic Cube Timer
Reported bugs
7 issues- Timer screen turns off while solving
- App bugs out and quits at random times
- Some buttons in settings crash the timer
- Timer is too sensitive
- Accidentally starting timer when scrambling
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- Phone turns off while solving
- Timer screen turns off
Requested features
51 requests- Add a way to delete only one time
- Add a beep sound for inspection end
- Save times to specific cube types
- Separate times for different cube types
- Add a plus 2 button
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- Add a DNF button
- Ability to switch cubes
- Add F2L timer
- Add 2x2 and 4x4 options
- More color options for background
- Add a learn feature for algorithms
- Add a picture of scramble result
- Add multiple profiles for different cube types
- Add pause/resume timer functionality
- Add camera option
- Add graphs for record evolution
- Add option to upload times and compare with others
- Add option to record solves for critique
- Add more cubes to time
- Add more features for kids
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Add algorithm trainer
- Add way to resume timer if distracted
- Add option to delete last solve only
- Add shortcuts to best/worst times
- Add original layout option
- Add a way to save times to a cube type
- Add a feature to pick cube type and keep times separate
- Add a way to delete only one time instead of all
- Make it so the phone doesn't turn off while solving
- Add a beep sound when inspection time ends
- Add a feature to save times to a cube type
- Add a feature that lets you pick what type of cube you're solving
- Add a plus 2 button, DNF button, and ability to switch cubes
- Add a feature to delete one time at a time
- Add a feature where you can time yourself on F2L
- Add an option for 2x2 and 4x4 and more color options for the background
- Add a feature for adding multiple profiles for different types of cubes
- Add a feature where you can pause and resume the time
- Add graphs showing evolution of records
- Add a feature to remove solves
- Add a feature to record yourself to critique
- Add more cubes
- Add more stuff that kids will want to do
- Add an algorithm trainer
- Add a way to resume the timer if there's a distraction
- Add graphs
- Add more cubes
- Add more stuff
- Add an algorithm trainer
XCube Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Magic Cube Timer
No in-app purchases
XCube Timer
- Remove Ads$1.99
- XCube Timer Pro$7.99
