Comparison

Stopwatch ٞ vs Chronosophe

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

Head to head
About

Stopwatch ٞ

This stopwatch app offers continuous timing even after relaunch or inactivity. It provides sound and vibration notifications for start, stop, and lap actions, with customizable options. It also supports synchronization with widgets and smartwatches for seamless use across devices.

Highlights
  • Continuous timing without interruption
  • Sound and vibration notifications
  • Lap recording
  • Today widget support
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Cross-device synchronization
Features
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Stopwatch application is easy use for daily life. Has following features: -After re launch or came back from inactive mode continuous to timer without interruption -Start, stop, laps buttons gives vibrate and sound notification - Sound and Vibrate notification can be turn on and off -Records Laps -Support Today widget and display the stopwatch session started from application with synchronization - Support Apple watch - If you start timer from phone or Apple watch you can continue on apple watch or phone such as lap,stop, start functionality without interruption

About

Chronosophe

Features
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Some clocks just tell the time. Chronosophe celebrates it. Chronosophe is a clock that celebrates the day's prettiest times instead of just telling them. It started with my son, who loved catching the clock at 11:11. So we made an app that watches for those moments: it finds the nearest beautiful time (12:34, 4:04, a palindrome, a square, a little run of digits) and colours the display by the pattern it matched. A glance at the clock becomes a small celebration. That's the idea across the whole ·sophe family: adding a little wisdom, sophía, to everyday moments. Chronosophe does it for the hours of your day. The same app runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac (tucked into the menu bar) and Apple Watch, with Home-Screen widgets and watch complications that show the next pretty time at a glance. Choose the patterns you care about, add personal times of your own (the minute you were born, a wedding hour), set a chime for the ones you love, and decide how far ahead to look. No account, no ads, no tracking, and nothing leaves your device. Buy it once: no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Stopwatch ٞ4 screens
Chronosophe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Stopwatch ٞ at Free against Chronosophe's $0.99. Stopwatch ٞ also leads on iOS requirement (13.2 vs 16.0). Chronosophe's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). On in-app purchases 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

Stopwatch ٞ is free to download; Chronosophe costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stopwatch ٞ ships an update every 9 months, Chronosophe every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Stopwatch ٞ versus Chronosophe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStopwatch ٞChronosophe
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.2 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniCom TechnologyTHOMAS MAURICE LEWINER

Bugs and requests

Stopwatch ٞ

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Laps marked on the watch do not appear on the phone
  • App keeps updating and disappearing from Apple Watch

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to change main display from whole time to lap time
  • Ability to save splits for later

Chronosophe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stopwatch ٞ

No in-app purchases

None

Chronosophe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stopwatch ٞ free?
Stopwatch ٞ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronosophe free?
Chronosophe costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stopwatch ٞ or Chronosophe have ads?
Stopwatch ٞ shows ads; Chronosophe does not.
Which is updated more often, Stopwatch ٞ or Chronosophe?
Stopwatch ٞ ships an update every 9 months, and Chronosophe every 3 weeks. Most recently, Stopwatch ٞ was updated on October 13, 2026 and Chronosophe on September 23, 2026.

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