Comparison

WordCount Plus vs Circuit

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

Head to head
About

WordCount Plus

This utility allows users to count words, newlines, characters, and whitespace. It provides a simple way to analyze text content, similar to command-line tools.

Highlights
  • Count words
  • Count newlines
  • Count characters
  • Count whitespace
  • Command-line utility simulation
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WordCount Free is a simple utility that lets you count the number of words, newlines, characters, and whitespace similar to the wc command line utility. The app is ad supported so that I can offer it for free. Enjoy!

About

Circuit

This app helps you break free from phone addiction by blocking distracting apps and websites. It offers customizable timers, schedules, and strict modes to enforce focus, with motivational rewards for achieving goals.

Highlights
  • App blocking with customizable timers
  • Scheduled focus sessions
  • Strict mode for uninterrupted focus
  • Daily app usage limits
  • Always allowed apps
  • Focus soundscapes
  • Achievement coins and progress tracking
Features
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Your phone is built to keep you scrolling. Circuit is built to stop it. Trip the breaker and the apps you can't put down stop opening. No negotiation, no notification to swipe away — the app just doesn't come up until your time is done. THE BREAKER Hold the dial and your apps close: 15 minutes, 30, an hour and a half, or a whole quiet day. Start it in the app, from Control Center, or by asking Siri. A Live Activity keeps the timer on your Lock Screen the whole time. SCHEDULES Name a set of apps and give it hours. Study on weekday evenings. Sleep from 22:30 to 07:00. Work nine to five. Schedules run themselves, so being disciplined stops being something you have to remember. FRICTION, NOT WILLPOWER Reach for a blocked app and there's a breath to take, a countdown to sit through, or a sentence to type before anything opens. Usually the urge is gone before the timer is. STRICT MODE For the sessions that matter: no early exit, no five more minutes. You set it, and that's that. DAILY LIMITS Give one app a budget — thirty minutes of Instagram a day. When it's spent, it's spent until tomorrow. ALWAYS ALLOWED Some apps are never blocked, whatever else is running. Maps, your bank, whoever you'd need at 2am. SOUND TO WORK TO Rain, a fire, waves, brown noise, or a slow wordless pulse. One at a time, playing under whatever else you're listening to, and it keeps going with the screen off. 28 LEGENDARY COINS Every milestone earns a famous coin of ancient Greece or Rome: the owl of Athens for a schedule kept to the end, Caesar's elephant, the Colosseum of Titus, and for a thousand days in a row the gold EID MAR aureus of Brutus, one of three known. Tap the coin on Home to see all 28 and what each one takes. Every coin you earn opens its story, a few things most people don't know about it, what one sold for at auction, and the museums where you can see one. Real coins, every fact checked against museum and auction records. HONEST NUMBERS Time blocked each day, your streak, this week against last, and a report every Sunday. Your real Screen Time usage sits alongside it, drawn by Apple itself. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. Circuit blocks through Apple's Screen Time, which means it cannot see which apps you picked — only draw their icons. Your choices, schedules and stats stay on your phone. What leaves it is an anonymous count of which screens get opened — one switch in Settings stops it — and a crash report if Circuit falls over. Circuit Pro is $59.99/year with a 7-day free trial, $12.99/month, or $4.99/week. One subscription covers your Family Sharing group. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; manage or cancel it in App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://circuitapp.app/legal#privacy

Screenshots

WordCount Plus4 screens
Circuit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WordCount Plus at 77% against Circuit's 0%. WordCount Plus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). Circuit's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 10 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Circuit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. WordCount Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WordCount Plus ships an update every 10 months, Circuit daily. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
WordCount Plus versus Circuit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWordCount PlusCircuit
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (39 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings39 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSLOBrewer.comVasily Lukin

Customer experience

WordCount Plus

All ratings39 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive77.3%
Neutral3.0%
Negative19.7%

Circuit

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

WordCount Plus

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Work deleted when app crashes or is closed
  • Work deleted when switching apps
  • HTML formatting not absorbed correctly
  • Overestimates word count (rare)
  • Ellipses counted as words

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add a 'review here' button
  • Counts for selected portion of text
  • Auto-save functionality
  • Clear button
  • Multiple pages/documents
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  • Dark mode option

Circuit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

WordCount Plus

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Circuit

Subscriptions3
  • Circuit Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Circuit Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Circuit Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is WordCount Plus free?
WordCount Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Circuit free?
Circuit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do WordCount Plus or Circuit have ads?
Neither WordCount Plus nor Circuit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WordCount Plus or Circuit?
WordCount Plus ships an update every 10 months, and Circuit daily. Most recently, WordCount Plus was updated on November 1, 2026 and Circuit on October 31, 2026.

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