Comparison

My Favorite Timer vs Clean Text

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

Head to head
About

My Favorite Timer

This app visually displays remaining time with three colored segments that fill as time progresses. It's simple to set up and use, with an optional alarm and a feature to view total remaining time.

Highlights
  • Three colored time segments
  • Configurable segment lengths
  • Visual progress indicator
  • Optional alarm sound
  • Tap to see total time remaining
Features
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My Favorite Timer uniquely shows the time remaining for your activity via three equally sized colored segments. It’s easy to configure and easy to use. 1) Set the length of time for each color segment 2) Click start 3) As the time progresses, the colored segments fill in at the speed relative to their specified time The time is complete when all three segments are filled in. An optional alarm sound can be played as well. Single tap the while the timer is running to see the total time remaining. Great for: - timing a speech - use at school for timing a class activity - calming a child down (e.g. Timeout) - cooking multiple items in the kitchen at the same time

About

Clean Text

This app helps you edit, correct, and organize text quickly. It offers tools to fix formatting issues, standardize content, and improve readability for various writing tasks. Leverage AI-powered features and powerful search and replace for efficient text management.

Highlights
  • Fix formatting issues from various sources
  • Remove empty lines, extra spaces, and unwanted characters
  • Standardize content with a single tap
  • Integrates Apple Writing Tools for correction and summarization
  • Powerful find and replace with real-time highlighting
  • Access recent texts and reuse transformations
  • Seamless cross-device integration via iCloud
Features
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Clean Text helps you edit, correct, and organize text quickly and reliably, making everyday writing tasks easier. It’s designed for anyone who works with text: writers, students, developers, marketers, and anyone who copies and pastes content between different apps. From fixing formatting issues to preparing clean, readable text for emails, documents, websites, and social posts, Clean Text keeps your work consistent and well organized. Complete Text Cleanup Clean Text solves the most common formatting problems that appear when copying text from emails, PDFs, web pages, or chat messages. Remove empty lines, extra spaces, tabs, unwanted characters, smart quotes, or line breaks in seconds. A rich set of cleanup tools lets you standardize content with a single tap, making even the messiest text immediately usable. Editing with Apple Writing Tools Clean Text supports Apple Writing Tools, integrating them alongside all the classic text cleaning and formatting features. You can use them to correct, rewrite, summarize, and improve your text directly in the app. AI-based features are always optional and are only activated when you choose to use them. Powerful Find and Replace Real-time search instantly highlights all matches in the text, making it easy to locate words, phrases, or patterns even in long documents. Options like Case Sensitive and Whole Word give you precise control, while the live preview makes replacements safe and reliable. Recent Texts and Smart History Quickly access recently copied texts and reuse previously applied transformations to speed up repetitive workflows. Seamless Cross-Device Integration Thanks to iCloud, you can start working on iPhone or iPad and instantly find your text on your other devices. Recent changes are always available, with no manual steps required. Designed for iOS and iPadOS Clean Text integrates naturally with the system: • Dark Mode support • iPad multitasking • External keyboards and shortcuts • Context menus and system integrations Key Features: • Smart Clean and Clean & Compact • Clean clipboard content without pasting • Fix spaces, lines, and paragraphs • Convert tabs, spaces, and quotation marks • Text case conversion (uppercase, lowercase, title case, sentence case) • Indentation tools and line numbering • Line sorting and reordering • Encoding and decoding (URL, Base64, ROT13) • Convert HTML to plain text • Creative text transformations • Text statistics (characters, words, lines) • Find and replace with real-time highlighting • Regular expression support • Ignore List to protect specific words • Shortcuts and automation support Clean Text for iPhone and iPad is aligned with the macOS version in features and behavior, delivering a consistent experience across platforms with over 100 text transformation actions. AI Features Note AI-based features are separate from traditional tools and are never applied automatically. Apimac continues to independently develop and improve all classic text cleaning and formatting features. Subscriptions and Purchases With the purchase you unlock all the app’s core features. In addition, subscribers benefit from continuous improvements, new features, and regular updates delivered to the app over time. Plans available: • Monthly subscription: 1-month free trial, then automatically renews at the monthly price • Annual subscription: 1-month free trial, then automatically renews at the annual price • Lifetime purchase: one-time payment with unlimited access to all features and continuous improvements Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.apimac.com/about/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

My Favorite Timer4 screens
Clean Text4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clean Text at Free against My Favorite Timer's $0.99. Clean Text also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (205 vs 2). My Favorite Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On 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

Clean Text is free to download; My Favorite Timer costs $0.99 up front. Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. My Favorite Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clean Text holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Text has 205 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of My Favorite Timer's written reviews are positive against 60% of Clean Text's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Favorite Timer ships an update every 22 months, Clean Text every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
My Favorite Timer versus Clean Text: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Favorite TimerClean Text
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.6 (205 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews60.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2205 — better
Update frequencyEvery 22 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRien HealdApimac

Customer experience

My Favorite Timer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Clean Text

All ratings205 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive60.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

My Favorite Timer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Clean Text

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime License$39.99

Questions

Is My Favorite Timer free?
My Favorite Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, My Favorite Timer or Clean Text?
Clean Text is rated higher. My Favorite Timer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Clean Text averages 4.6 from 205 ratings.
Do My Favorite Timer or Clean Text have ads?
Neither My Favorite Timer nor Clean Text shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Favorite Timer or Clean Text?
My Favorite Timer ships an update every 22 months, and Clean Text every 4 months. Most recently, My Favorite Timer was updated on September 8, 2026 and Clean Text on August 29, 2026.

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