The Reviews

App needs to be fixed. Does not notify you when done if phone is locked!

I boiled my eggs to the liquid timer, but they were hard boiled. Not impressed.

Update of my review: I purchased TheperfectEggtimer more than a year ago and used is a few times. The user interface looks nice but is unusable. There was no update fixing the tons of issues with the timer. I got another (free!) egg timer now. I am not using TheperfectEggtimer any more.

On iOS 4.x the biggest problem is likely that TheperfectEggtimer does not run in the background. When your phone rings and the timer is gone. There is another problem when the timer was started. Don't press the Back button or it will reset the running timer. This happens to me twice when the timer was already started.

Would be great but without multitasking TheperfectEggtimer is not practical at all.

tried it but the eggs were hard boiled instead of soft if done as instructed. I think it might work to start the timer AND put the eggs in the water, both when the waters is boiling.

It would have been nice to know the timer stops when you lock your screen... This should be put as a warning when you press start. Still waiting for my eggs to cool off but I assume they are probably ruined.

I'm excited about TheperfectEggtimer, as I love soft yolks and don't much care for hard-boiled, but I haven't yet gotten to try it with a real-life egg, so I'm tentatively giving TheperfectEggtimer a three.

To all the people who are having trouble with overcooking, did you set your altitude correctly? Water boils at a lower temperature at higher altitudes. For example, I live in Tulsa, which isn't exactly the roof of the world, but my water boils almost four degrees cooler than at sea level. Significant with something as finicky as an egg.

my eggs were a little runny... but i was cooking several at once. maybe it needs a multiple egg setting in the next update.
also, are the times for a covered boil or an uncovered one?

Nice app, very practical, and cheaper than a sand timer at the grocery store. Well thought out, but like the previous reviewer said it will stop timing if you lock the screen.

Have tried every store-bought egg timer and have been disappointed until I bought this little app-have made many batches of perfect eggs using TheperfectEggtimer-am very pleased and strongly recommend TheperfectEggtimer to boiled egg lovers.

Works Perfectly as Claimed ! Easy as Pie ! Perfect hard boiled eggs the First Time ! :-) Worth the money & Easy is Good. Remember : KISS Keep it Simple Stupid . They did it Best ! Can't say enough !

I was really excited when I saw TheperfectEggtimer. My eggs tuned out just the way I like them! The egg-measure feature is wondeful! I found it easiest to lay the egg down NEXT to the iPod instead of on top of it though, it was easier to measure. I found the lack of instructions to be a little confusing, but here's how it works:

-put eggs in pot
-cover with COLD water, about an inch above the eggs
-turn burner on high
-when water hits a ROLLING BOIL, hit START on the iPod
-when timer beeps, remove pot from heat
-I removed the eggs from the pot and placed in ice water (it stops the eggs from ovecooking and prevents green yolks)

PERFECT EGGS! :)

Worked just as expected. This solves my ongoing problem with cooking the perfect soft boiled egg.

Don't waste your time with other egg timer apps. This is the one.

No grey yokes! Perfect yellow!

This indeed is the perfect egg timer I always wanted to make soft yoke hard boiled eggs but i could never get it rite, with TheperfectEggtimer I finally can. Props to the developers I love TheperfectEggtimer its my favorite its a $1.99 well spent thank you. Im too lazy to write reviews so it takes me alot to log on to the TheperfectEggtimer store just to write a review this is how much i love TheperfectEggtimer and the bell peep sounds when your eggs are done love it even more, love it , love it, love it.

I have used TheperfectEggtimer since it came out.
If your just wanting a boiled egg, be it runny, soft, hard. Whatever you want. You will achieve it with TheperfectEggtimer. I’d tried egg cooking machines. Recipes and other apps and I could NEVER get my boiled egg the way I want it.
This does it for you. Incredibly simple to use. A MUST. Seriously cannot recommend this enough.