Comparison

Recovery Birthdays vs Timecode Gen

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Recovery Birthdays

This app helps users remember and celebrate important recovery milestones for friends and loved ones. It acts as a privacy-focused contact manager, syncing with your device's contacts to track sobriety, clean, or abstinence dates and sending timely reminders. Users can also send virtual chips and key-tags to show support.

Highlights
  • Recovery milestone reminders
  • Privacy-first contact management
  • Virtual chip and key-tag sending
  • Syncs with iPhone Contacts
  • Customizable widgets
  • QR code scanner and sharing
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Recovery Birthdays: Never forget a recovery milestone again. For someone in recovery, a Sobriety Date, Clean Date, or Abstinence Date can be just as important—if not more—than a belly-button birthday.  Recovery Birthdays helps you honor and celebrate those dates in the lives of your friends and loved ones. This app is a privacy-first contacts manager designed specifically for the recovery community.  It syncs easily with your iPhone Contacts, allows you to manage recovery dates, and sends reminders the day before and on each anniversary. Privacy First: Your data is yours.  Recovery Birthdays: Does not collect any user data. Does not send information to third-party servers. Does not store any 3rd party contact details beyond: Contact name Recovery anniversary date A single image for the contact We do not store or share phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, notes, or any personal contact information.  Everything is kept local to your device or iCloud Features * Notifications for recovery anniversaries (on the day and the day before). * Send a virtual chip or key-tag from within the app—choose from sobriety coins and clean-time tags spanning 24 hours to 60 years. * Add a recovery date to existing contacts or create new ones easily. * Auto-sync with Contacts for entries labeled 'Sobriety Date', 'Clean Date', or 'Abstinence Date'. * My Contact Card tab to view your clean time and share your details via text, QR code, or other sharing options. * Built-in QR code scanner to quickly add contacts by scanning their code. * iPhone widgets, including: Clean Time widget, Sobriety Chip widget, QR Code widget for easy sharing. * Widget Colour editor In recovery, we repair the connections we once neglected. Remembering someone’s recovery anniversary is a powerful way to show love, respect, and support. Bring a cake. Write a card. Send a message. Make a call. Let them know they matter. As it’s often said: "Only through giving do we truly receive." Included Chips & Key-Tags AA Chips (24 hours to 60 years): Silver – 24 Hours Red – 30 Days / 1 Month Yellow – 60 Days / 2 Months Green – 90 Days / 3 Months Orange – 4 Months Red – 5 Months Blue – 6 Months Purple – 7 Months Orange – 8 Months Pink – 9 Months Green – 10 Months Red – 11 Months Gold – 1–60 Years NA Key-Tags: White – Just for Today Pink – Welcome Back Orange – 30 Days Green – 60 Days Red – 90 Days Blue – 6 Months Yellow – 9 Months Glow-in-the-Dark White – 1 Year Grey – 18 Months Black & Gold – Multiple Years We’d Love to Hear From You If you have ideas, feature requests, or feedback, please reach out to recoverybirthdays@gmail.com or through the app’s support page. Recovery Birthdays Celebrate. Remember. Support. Never forget their important day again.

About

Timecode Gen

This app generates linear timecode (LTC) with support for various frame rates and audio output. It can create audio files with embedded timecode, operate in real-time using the device's current time, and manage cue playlists. It also allows for synchronized start/stop commands between devices via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

Highlights
  • LTC SMPTE timecode generation (PAL, SECAM, 24-30 FPS)
  • Audio file creation with embedded timecode (AAC/.m4a)
  • Real-time generation using device's system time
  • CUE timecode playlist creation and management
  • Synchronized start/stop commands via Bluetooth/Wi-Fi
  • Sync TX/RX modes for device command transmission
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Main Features: - Generate linear timecode support LTC SMPTE PAL SECAM 24, 25, 29.97DF, 30 FPS with audio output. - Creating audio files with timecode in compressed aac/.m4a(44,1kHz) format. - RealTime mode - generation timecode of current system time of device. (supported Sync Mode) - CUE timecode playlist. Can create CUEs with start time and end time.  Creating sequecies with CUE's, using two modes "Auto Play Next" and "Stop At End". - Sync devices with TC app, synchronously start/stop commands with connected nearby devices using Bluetooth or WIFI(on same network). Sync TX mode - Transmitter mode, device send commands to another device with RX mode. Sync RX mode - Reciever mode, device get commands: start, stop, set timecode from TX device. Always welcome for criticism and suggestions: royalblue.dev@gmail.com

Screenshots

Recovery Birthdays4 screens
Timecode Gen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Recovery Birthdays at Free against Timecode Gen's $4.99. Recovery Birthdays also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Timecode Gen's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Recovery Birthdays is free to download; Timecode Gen costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Recovery Birthdays holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Recovery Birthdays's written reviews are positive against 83% of Timecode Gen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recovery Birthdays ships an update fortnightly, Timecode Gen every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Recovery Birthdays versus Timecode Gen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecovery BirthdaysTimecode Gen
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better4.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better4
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKurt LaneAnna Koynova

Customer experience

Recovery Birthdays

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Timecode Gen

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

Recovery Birthdays

No in-app purchases

None

Timecode Gen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recovery Birthdays free?
Recovery Birthdays is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timecode Gen free?
Timecode Gen costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recovery Birthdays or Timecode Gen?
Recovery Birthdays is rated higher. Recovery Birthdays averages 5.0 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Timecode Gen averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Recovery Birthdays or Timecode Gen have ads?
Neither Recovery Birthdays nor Timecode Gen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recovery Birthdays or Timecode Gen?
Recovery Birthdays ships an update fortnightly, and Timecode Gen every 5 days. Most recently, Recovery Birthdays was updated on June 10, 2026 and Timecode Gen on September 8, 2026.

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