Best Banner vs Disco Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Banner
Create custom animated or static text banners and messages with various effects, fonts, and colors. Ideal for personal expression, events, or educational purposes.
- Animated and static message creation
- Multiple animation effects (typewriter, scrolling, etc.)
- Customizable fonts, sizes, and LED appearance
- Adjustable animation speed
- Full device orientation support
- Repeat message option
- Vibration feedback
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Express your emotions or your civic attitude, use it to meet someone at the airport or cheer on your favorite team, or just help your kid to learn letters Best Banner allows creating nice looking animated or static messages, banners, presentations and visual chats. It uses different animation effects, customizable speed, selectable fonts and sizes, configurable LED size, shape and color, flow control and full support for all device orientations. 6 animation effects: - Typewriter: the text is "typed" letter by letter; - Creeping line: scrolling text; - Bottom-up: one page of the text is rotated into the next one by moving up. - Manual: scrolling line - just drag and move the message horizontally with your finger to show someone a static text or control the flow manually - Multi lines - the message is wrapped into multiple lines and scrolled vertically - Manual: multi lines - drag and move multiline message vertically and each line horizontally with your finger to show someone multi lined static text. Message look and feel: - Message text: a text to be displayed. Can be as long as you need; - Animation effect: select one of 4 animation effects here; - Animation speed: set up how fast the text to be scrolled, moved, typed, etc; - Font name: you can use any font that your device supports; - Font size: set up how large you want the message to be. - LED size: the smaller the led size is the more LEDs are used for one letter - the smaller the LED is the more detailed the letter is, so the larger the LED is the rougher the letters are. - LED color: just select any color you like here. - LED shape: customize a single LED look here. - Background color: display color - Repeat: set up here if the program should repeat the message again after displaying it once - Vibrate when done: the application can use vibration to bring your attention that the message is already displayed (if your device supports vibration) - Start delay: if you want to make some delay before displaying the message just set it up here. ****** Best LED Machine ****** For more functions and messages management please check the parent application - "Best LED Machine". There you can also create the same messages or banners and set up their look and feel, but you can also save them to use later, pre-create a number of messages and play them just in one tap when the right moment comes. VISIT US: smartphoneware.com LIKE US: facebook.com/smartphoneware FOLLOW US: twitter.com/smartphoneware
Disco Timer
This app provides a visually intuitive countdown timer for various tasks, from cooking to presentations. Its unique rotary gesture for setting time and large display make it easy to use and read from a distance. Customize alerts and colors for a personalized experience.
- Rotary gesture time setting
- Large, high-contrast display
- Glanceable from a distance
- Disable auto-lock option
- Customizable color combinations (Premium)
- Variety of exclusive alert tones
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Boiling an egg, timing a presentation, or starting your next Pomodoro – Disco Timer is a universal countdown clock for all sorts of tasks. Setting the timer duration is based on 60-minute circle of traditional analog watches – you just wind it up with a single rotary gesture. Then tap the display to run, pause, or reset the timer. Large, high-contrast representation of the remaining time makes it glanceable from quite a distance. And an option to disable the Auto-Lock can keep the device awake while the timer is running. This comes in very handy when keeping an eye on the progress is as important as the finishing time itself. The face of the timer can be customized by choosing from a variety of color combinations (Premium feature). And for the completion alert – you can select from a dozen great-sounding tones, all of which are crafted exclusively for Codulis apps. Give Disco Timer a try, and let us know what you think!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Best Banner at none against Disco Timer's 1. Best Banner also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.4). Disco Timer's advantage is ratings volume (97 vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 18 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Disco Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Best Banner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Best Banner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Disco Timer has 97 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 89% and 89% positive.
Best Banner ships an update every 18 months, Disco Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Banner | Disco Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (97 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 97 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Simkovskyi | Codulis |
Customer experience
Best Banner
Disco Timer
In-app purchases
Best Banner
No in-app purchases
Disco Timer
- Disco Timer Premium$2.99








