HangClimb Timer vs CountDown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HangClimb Timer
Create, modify, and execute custom hangboard climbing workouts with a simple interface. Track your progress and integrate with Apple Health. Control workouts directly from your Apple Watch.
- Custom workout creation
- Workout editing (sets, reps)
- Hangboard workout execution
- Apple Health integration
- Apple Watch app support
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HangClimb Timer is a mobile application tool for creation, modification, and execution of hang board climbing workouts. HangClimb uses a simple interface for editing individual workouts, sets, or reps so that you can create your ideal hangboard workout. HangClimb Timer, a Health and Fitness app, uses HealthKit to integrate your workouts with the Apple Health App. The corresponding Apple Watch App allows you to execute the workouts from your watch.
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 rating: HangClimb Timer at 4.8 against CountDown's 4.4. HangClimb Timer also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 60%) and ratings volume (284 vs 7). On price, update cadence, 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.
HangClimb Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HangClimb Timer has 284 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of HangClimb Timer's written reviews are positive against 60% of CountDown's.
HangClimb Timer ships an update every 5 months, CountDown every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HangClimb Timer | CountDown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (284 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 284 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riley Bruce | Ian Docherty |
Customer experience
HangClimb Timer
CountDown
Bugs and requests
HangClimb Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Sound doesn't work
- Timer stops counting down when not actively using app
- Cannot figure out how to get sound notifications
Requested features
6 requests- Option to exceed 60 second reps
- Ability to delete sets within a workout
- Ability to delete hangs, hold and hold types
- Rest time limit to be uncapped
- Changeable sound options
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- Option to start with hang instead of rest
CountDown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HangClimb Timer
No in-app purchases
CountDown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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