Alongsiders Church vs Extemp Debate Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alongsiders Church
Connect with a community that shares a common hope. This app offers insights for those curious and keeps members updated, engaged, and connected. Share the community's story with others.
- Community connection
- Stay updated
- Participate in community
- Share community story
- Deeper insights
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Alongsiders Church - a people who share a common hope in coming alongside each other. For those who want to know more, this app provides a closer look. For those who are part of this people, the app helps keep you connected, stay updated, and participate, while offering you an opportunity to share our ongoing story with friends, family, neighbors. Mobile app version: 6.20.2
Extemp Debate Timer
This app provides a comprehensive timer for various debate formats, including Extemp, Public Forum, and Lincoln Douglas. It offers customizable alerts, advanced analytics, and judge scripts to streamline debate rounds for judges, coaches, and debaters.
- Pre-built debate formats
- Pro landscape mode full-screen timer
- Immersive audio, haptic, and LED alerts
- Judge scripts and speaker notes
- Advanced round analytics
- Integrated coin toss for Public Forum
- Smart sequencing and stage tracking
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The ultimate debate timer for judges, coaches, and debaters. Designed to make timing rounds effortless so you can focus entirely on the flow and your ballot. Fully supports Extemp Debate, Public Forum (PF), and Lincoln Douglas (LD). Features: Pre-Built Formats: Just select your debate style and the app automatically builds the entire sequence of speeches, cross examinations, and prep time pools. Pro Landscape Mode: Rotate the screen when any timer is running to get a massive, distraction free full screen timer. You can easily turn the screen to face the debaters so they can track their own remaining time. Immersive Alerts: Choose between audio bells, heavy haptic vibrations, and LED camera flashes for 30 second warnings and when time is up. The rear LED flash is specially designed for when you have the screen facing the competitors, keeping you perfectly in the loop on timing from the back of the phone! Judge Scripts: Expandable speaker notes for every stage tell you exactly who is speaking and for how long. Advanced Round Analytics: Provide better feedback on your ballots. The analytics dashboard uses stacked bar charts to visualize exactly how much speaking and prep time each team (and individual PF speakers) used, left unused, or went into overtime. Integrated Coin Toss: Public Forum judges can use the built in 3D animated coin flipper to start the round. Smart Sequencing: The app tracks your progress, highlights the active stage, and lets you jump back and forth with intelligent auto-completion. Customizable: Quickly toggle sound, light, and vibration preferences right from the main screen. They save automatically for your next flight. Our Story: This app is the brainchild of and was written by Lucas M (13yo) and Max M (16yo), two brothers who have both competed in middle school debate. They worked together to devise and code all of the app's features, and they asked me to publish it on their behalf for free as a gift back to the speech and debate community from which they have benefitted so much. Keep time with confidence!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Extemp Debate Timer at every 2 days against Alongsiders Church's every 2 months. Alongsiders Church's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Alongsiders Church against 5.0 for Extemp Debate Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alongsiders Church has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Alongsiders Church ships an update every 2 months, Extemp Debate Timer every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alongsiders Church | Extemp Debate Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alongsiders Church | Simply Networked LLC |
Customer experience
Alongsiders Church
Extemp Debate Timer
In-app purchases
Alongsiders Church
No in-app purchases
Extemp Debate Timer
No in-app purchases
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