Best Countdown vs Announcement Useful Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Countdown
Create visual countdowns or countups for any duration, from minutes to 100 hours. Features customizable colors, 16 alarm sounds, and notifications even when the app is closed. Ideal for kids to understand time visually.
- Countdown and countup timers
- Visual time representation
- Customizable colors and themes
- 16 unique alarm sounds
- Background notifications
- Kids friendly interface
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Ultramodern countdown timer with futuristic design and demonstrative functionality. You can set countdown or countup timer for as long as 100 hours or as little as a couple of minutes. It's an excellent visual time indicator for your activities. * KIDS FRIENDLY Timer visualizes time to kids and lets them feel the time. Without reading or even knowing the numbers one can look at the visualized time flow, feel it and understand how long to wait or whether to hurry up. * STAY NOTIFIED It lets you set the alarm sound that will play when the timer is finished. You can choose from 16 unique alarm sounds, melodies and loops. You’ll be notified when your time is up even if you’re using another app or your device is locked. It can also repeat the sound alarm (up to 3 times) at the given interval if it was missed/snoozed. * COLOR YOUR TIME You can easily change the timer color to fit your personal lifestyle. There are 5 color themes: turquoise, red, green, amber and pink. Just pick the one you like in the application settings. * UNIVERSAL APP Timer works both on your iPhone/iPod and iPad, contains HD graphics for retina and iPad displays and supports all screen orientations for all devices. [+Retina graphics for iPad 3rd generation] * SEE ALSO: Best Timer Beautifully designed sand timer, stylish kitchen timer, countdown/up and powerful stopwatch All in one creatively combined Best Timer application to suit all your timing needs. Search "Best Timer" on iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/app/best-timer/id415656570) * Get the timer with the artistic design. Enjoy timing! ***Important for iOS5+ devices: if there is no alarm played when the application is inactive please go to system Settings / Notifications, select the application name and configure the timer's alarms, whether they perform sound and if they're to appear on lock screen. VISIT US: smartphoneware.com
Announcement Useful Timer
This app provides spoken updates every minute for active timers, even when the screen is off. It supports custom countdowns and time-of-day alerts, with options for personalized sounds and voice announcements. Multiple timers can run simultaneously, with quick setup and management features.
- Spoken updates every minute
- Custom countdown and time-of-day timers
- Multiple timers simultaneously
- Personalized alert sounds and music
- Quick setup with shortcut buttons
- Foreground voice announcements
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Voice Timer! Spoken updates every minute. Even when you are not looking at the screen, this app tells you how much time is left. Announcement Useful Timer is available on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. You can choose the free version or the paid, ad-free PRO version. Announcement Useful Timer can count down preset items and times, as well as your own custom items and times. It announces the remaining item and time every minute, gives a 10-second countdown before completion, and plays your selected music or sound when time is up. Use it as a cup noodle timer, kitchen timer, nap timer, and more. You can run multiple timers at the same time and quickly set them from the always-visible number input at the bottom of the screen. Shortcut buttons are available on the right (long-press to assign different items). Items are shown in a list, frequently used timers are ranked to the top, and you can start timers from history or favorites. Swipe left on a list item to delete it. You can cancel an active countdown from the top of the list. When end music is playing, you can stop it by swiping, tapping the stop button, or shaking your device. Each list item has a settings button on the left where you can configure timer values, labels, voice/music settings, and notification behavior. If you prefer, you can disable the every-minute voice announcements in settings. Pause, resume, and clear buttons are also available for all timers. You can use two timer types: - Countdown timer (set a duration) - Time-of-day timer (notify at the next specified time) *Voice announcements are available only while the app is in the foreground.* To prevent accidental taps in the foreground, a lock button is provided at the top-left of the right shortcut area. In the background, only the end notification is available. Note: Due to iOS API behavior, sounds may play even when Silent Mode is on (voice speech will not play). --- App Features --- ・Quick and easy timer setup using the buttons at the bottom of the main screen. ・Set timers simply by selecting from a list. ・Run multiple timers in parallel. ・Set labels and receive voice notifications. (Every minute, plus 30/15/10 seconds before completion. These can be toggled in settings.) ・Use your own music from iPhone/iPod/iPad for alerts and end sounds. (Foreground only) ・Set music to start from a specific point (for example, the chorus). ・Use two timer types: countdown and specific end time. ・Assign frequently used timers to the shortcut buttons on the right. ・Adjust voice pitch and speech rate. --- Free Version vs PRO Version --- This app is available in both Free and PRO (paid) versions. The PRO version is ad-free. The area used for ads in the Free version is replaced with more list and button space, providing a more comfortable experience. There is no difference in timer functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Best Countdown at 4.3 against Announcement Useful Timer's 3.0. Best Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Announcement Useful Timer's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 14 months) and review sentiment (73% vs 53%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Best Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Countdown has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Best Countdown's written reviews are positive against 73% of Announcement Useful Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Best Countdown ships an update every 14 months, Announcement Useful Timer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Countdown | Announcement Useful Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Simkovskyi | katapu.net |
Customer experience
Best Countdown
Announcement Useful Timer
In-app purchases
Best Countdown
No in-app purchases
Announcement Useful Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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