Hangboard timer vs CountDown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hangboard timer
This app provides a customizable timer for hangboard training routines. Set your hang, rest, repetition, and recovery times to optimize your climbing workouts. Easily pause and resume your session with a simple screen press.
- Customizable hang time
- Adjustable rest time
- Set repetitions
- Define recovery time
- Simple pause/resume function
- Unlimited cycles
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A simple to use hangboard timer app for climbers. Used for regular hangboard routines where you need hang time, rest time, repetitions and recovery time. Once started you can perform as many cycles as you want. Before starting the routine you can of course set hang time, rest time, repetitions and recovery time. For pause/resume, simply press screen.
CountDown
This app helps climbers build custom hangboard workouts quickly and efficiently. It offers a simple interface to personalize grip types, feedback, and workout structure. Track your progress with detailed history and notes to optimize training.
- Build custom workouts
- Create custom grip types
- Personalize visual, audible, haptic feedback
- View workout history
- Add workout notes
- Start timers without creating workouts
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Elevate your training with CountDown, the efficient, effective and free training app designed for the detail-oriented climber. CountDown is designed to help climbers build complex workouts in just a few minutes. CountDown differs from other hangboard apps by providing a simple and intuitive interface that enables you to customize every aspect of your workout. Key Features: - Build new workouts under specific categories to target different climbing fitness attributes. - Create as many custom grip types as you need. Add, reorder, and copy grips within a workout with ease. - Personalize your hangboarding experience with customizable choices of visual, audible, and haptic feedback. - View a detailed history of your completed workouts. Add notes so you can make informed decisions to optimize your training cycles. - If you want to get started right away, you can start a new timer without needing to create a workout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CountDown at Free against Hangboard timer's $0.99. CountDown also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). Hangboard timer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.2). On ratings volume, 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
CountDown is free to download; Hangboard timer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CountDown holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Hangboard timer's written reviews are positive against 60% of CountDown's.
Hangboard timer ships an update every 10 months, CountDown every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hangboard timer | CountDown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mats Eriksson | Ian Docherty |
Customer experience
Hangboard timer
CountDown
In-app purchases
Hangboard timer
No in-app purchases
CountDown
No in-app purchases
