LCT Floating Timer vs Launcher x
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LCT Floating Timer
This app offers a versatile timer and clock utility that can be displayed persistently on your device's screen, even on top of other applications. It features millisecond accuracy, a stopwatch, and countdown timers for various events.
- Floating timer on main screen
- Always-on-top display
- Millisecond accurate clock
- Stopwatch functionality
- Countdown timer
- Dynamic island integration
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The Floating timer can be suspended on the main screen of the device and displayed on top of other apps. Provides a clock display accurate to milliseconds, and a small countdown window. - Show timer on dynamic island and lock screen - It can always be displayed on the top of the screen, and it can be kept on top of other APPs in a small window. - Floating digital clock with seconds display - Stopwatch, count up timer - Countdown timer, countdown to important events. Can be used to grab coupons when shopping online.
Launcher x
This app allows you to create custom widgets for your home and lock screens to quickly launch your favorite apps, shortcuts, and websites. It offers extensive customization options for icons, colors, and layouts, enhancing efficiency and personalization.
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Lock screen app launcher
- Personalized icons
- Website shortcuts
- Transparent widget support
- Live Activity widgets
- iCloud backup
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Launcher Widgets - Home Screen Lock Screen Launcher Widgets Quick launch without redirect Launcher Widgets is a powerful and flexible application launcher that offers a rich set of widget templates to help you easily manage and quickly launch your frequently used applications, shortcuts and websites. Whether it's transparent widgets, personalized icons, or customizable time and date formats, Launcher Widgets offers an unparalleled customization experience. Add your favorite apps and shortcuts to your home screen widgets with a single click to make your operations more efficient and faster! 【New Lock Screen Widget】 Lock Screen Launch Widget: Lets you quickly launch apps even from the lock screen. Live Activity widget: Dynamically displays activity content to enhance the interactive experience. 【Customizable Home Screen】 Transparent widget support: make your home screen more simple and beautiful. Rich widget templates: Super variety of widget templates to choose from, easy to personalize. Highly customizable widgets: freely adjust the color, time format, date format, background and font to create your own interface. Customized Icon Launcher: Support graphics, shadows, delete and change icons to create unique shortcuts. Shortcut Command Support: Quickly execute your frequently used shortcut commands and launch them with one click. One-click website launch: Quickly open your frequently visited websites to enhance your browsing experience. iCloud Backup Support: Synchronize your data with the cloud to ensure that your settings are safe and available at all times. Clock widget: Real-time display of the current time, supports digital and analog clock styles. Digital Clock Widget: Simple and clear digital clock makes your time management more efficient. Calendar/Calendar widget System Information Widget Minimalist Screen widget 【More widget types】 We will continue to update with more features and widget styles. If you have any suggestions or needs for applications that you would like to launch via widgets, please feel free to contact us via email: launcherfd@gmail.com Tips: If you like Launcher Widgets, please leave us a 5-star review, it's very important to us! Privacy Policy: https://onions-march-usp.craft.me/xUGFnVZE15Zpi1 Terms of Service: https://onions-march-usp.craft.me/2rohfmqdTMWEme
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Launcher x at none against LCT Floating Timer's shown. Launcher x also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (60% vs 49%). LCT Floating Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. LCT Floating Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Launcher x sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for LCT Floating Timer against 4.4 for Launcher x. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 295 and 196 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of LCT Floating Timer's written reviews are positive against 60% of Launcher x's.
LCT Floating Timer ships an update every 3 months, Launcher x every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LCT Floating Timer | Launcher x |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (295 ratings) — better | 4.4 (196 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.0% of reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 295 — better | 196 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 云云 唐 | 学良 靳 |
Customer experience
LCT Floating Timer
Launcher x
Bugs and requests
LCT Floating Timer
Reported bugs
10 issues- Popup ads every 5 seconds
- Floating window cannot control start/stop
- Lock screen clock inconsistent with unlocked clock
- Floating clock does not work
- Pause and reset buttons on floating timer do not work
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- Timer does not start at desired configuration
- Cannot configure seconds
- Restore purchase always fails
- Not compatible with iPad mini 6
- Ads are 20 seconds long
Requested features
8 requests- Allow color change for floating window
- Half width window option
- Smaller font size for smaller window
- Add button to start/stop timer on floating window
- Add timer minutes/seconds to countdown
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- Fix split view functionality
- Allow customization of clock style
- Add color palettes
Launcher x
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LCT Floating Timer
- Professional Version$1.99
Launcher x
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly Premium$7.991 Month
- Annual Premium$7.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$14.99
Questions
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