Comparison

Pips! vs Communion Counter

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

Head to head
About

Pips!

Generate custom tone sequences for time synchronization, inspired by global broadcast signals. Control frequency, duration, and volume to create unique 'pips' for personal or professional use. Includes presets from international broadcasters.

Highlights
  • Build custom pip sequences
  • Control frequency, duration, and volume
  • Use built-in presets
  • Recreate historical time signals
  • Generate new tone combinations
Features
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Pips is a tone sequence generator inspired by the alluring & mysterious Greenwich Time Signal and its countless friends broadcast around the world. Both amateur and professional pip connoisseurs have the power to recreate time signals of yore or innovate new combinations of boops that will delight the world's radio lovers and keep things in sync. Become time by becoming boop. This is your goal. Features! - Build a sequence of one or more custom pips and play them through your device. - Control the frequency, duration, and volume of your pips so people of all ages can keep their clocks on time. - Use our built in presets to kickstart your new pip-filled existence. Includes time signals used by international broadcasters like the BBC & CBC as well as time stations like NIST's WWV. Pips will give you the power to tame time by delineating it in your own personal style. Synchronize yourself, your family, your life. You control time now. Congratulations.

About

Communion Counter

This app helps churches track communion participants with features for attendance monitoring, historical data, and secure editing. It also includes inventory management for communion supplies, streamlining service preparation and record-keeping.

Highlights
  • Participant tracking
  • Historical data access
  • Secure editing
  • Inventory management
  • Service management
Features
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The Communion Counter app is a powerful and intuitive tool designed to help churches keep track of the communion participants. With features like participant tracking, historical data access, and secure editing, it provides an organized way to monitor attendance and ensure accurate record-keeping. The app also includes an inventory management system to track communion supplies, making it easier to stay prepared for every service. User-friendly and secure, this app is perfect for streamlining communion service management while maintaining accuracy and accessibility.

Screenshots

Pips!3 screens
Communion Counter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Communion Counter at none against Pips!'s 1. Communion Counter also leads on update cadence (every 8 months vs every 25 months) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

Both are free to download. Pips! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Communion Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pips! against 5.0 for Communion Counter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pips! ships an update every 25 months, Communion Counter every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Pips! versus Communion Counter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPips!Communion Counter
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 8 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJason ThompsonNobel Sam Mathew

Customer experience

Pips!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Communion Counter

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pips!

One-time1
  • Tip Jar$4.99
None

Communion Counter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pips! free?
Pips! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Communion Counter free?
Communion Counter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pips! or Communion Counter?
Pips! and Communion Counter are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Pips! or Communion Counter have ads?
Neither Pips! nor Communion Counter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pips! or Communion Counter?
Pips! ships an update every 25 months, and Communion Counter every 8 months. Most recently, Pips! was updated on November 3, 2026 and Communion Counter on November 4, 2026.

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