Frequently asked questions

One cooking timer for every food, tuned to how you like it. Pick a food, pick your doneness, and get a tested timer with staged step alerts — flip, stir, rest, serve — right on your Lock Screen. Perfect eggs, tea, coffee, pasta, steak, toast and everything after.

No. Timers run fully offline — once the app is installed everything works with zero network. An account is only needed for cross-device sync, saved presets and TasteTimer+ features.

Staged timers break a cook into ordered steps with their own alerts — “Sear side A”, “Flip”, “Rest before slicing”. Each step fires a banner and a chime so you never miss the moment. Staged timers are a TasteTimer+ feature.

Yes, with TasteTimer+. Parallel timers let you cook eggs, toast and coffee together, each labelled and counting down independently. The free plan runs one timer at a time.

TasteTimer+ is £2.99/month, or £24.99/year (about 30% off). You can cancel anytime and keep the free plan, which covers the core foods, single timers and default alert sounds.

Every food has a doneness scale — jammy vs hard eggs, rare vs medium steak — plus adjustments for size and starting temperature (fridge or room). Pick your preferences once and TasteTimer remembers them as a saved preset.

Eggs, tea, coffee, pasta, steak and toast are front and centre, with a growing library across hot drinks, meat, seafood, bread, vegetables, rice & grains and baking. New weekly packs land in TasteTimer+.

Yes. The free plan gives you the core foods, a single timer and the default alert sound — everything you need to cook the basics. TasteTimer+ unlocks unlimited presets, multiple and staged timers, sound packs, widgets, Apple Watch and iCloud sync.