Comparison

Smooth Countdown Lite vs TimeLocked

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

Head to head
About

Smooth Countdown Lite

This utility app provides a visually appealing countdown timer with a smoothly animated background. It offers customizable alarm options and supports both 12 and 24-hour time formats, making it a handy reminder tool.

Highlights
  • Smoothly animated background
  • Day and night mode toggle
  • Customizable alarm (none, one, repeated)
  • 12 and 24 hour format support
  • Ideal for device docks
Features
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Countdown the time with a smoothly animated background. It is the perfect reminder while the device waits in the dock. Features: - toggle between day and night mode - choose between no alarm, one alarm or repeated alarm sound - supports the 12 and 24 hour format

About

TimeLocked

This app acts as a secure vault for sensitive information, enforcing a mandatory waiting period before access. It helps users avoid impulsive decisions by creating a delay between the urge and the action, particularly useful for financial or high-risk data.

Highlights
  • Encrypted vault for sensitive data
  • Mandatory waiting periods for access
  • Face ID and Touch ID support
  • iCloud sync
  • Server-side unlock scheduling
  • End-to-end encryption
Features
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Time to change your mind. Park what you're about to do, and it comes back only after the delay you chose — 24 hours, three days, a week. Not a password you can talk yourself past. A wait. WHAT PEOPLE PARK • A purchase — park the link, and see later what you didn't spend • A message you'd regret — write the whole thing here instead of sending it • Photos you keep going back to — bring them in, delete the originals • A password or a recovery code — encrypted, with the same wait in front of it • Anything you'd reach for at 2am and regret by morning HOW IT WORKS A name, the thing itself, and how long it waits. That's the whole form — everything else is a row you can skip. When the wait is over the entry comes back and asks. Copy it, hold it longer, or let it go. Nothing opens by itself, and nothing opens early. THE CLOCK ISN'T YOURS TO MOVE The wait runs on Apple's server time, not your device clock. Changing the date on your phone does nothing. Deleting the app doesn't end a wait either — the key and the clock aren't on this device. LOCK THE APPS WHILE IT WAITS A vault is no use if the shop is still one tap away. The shop, the feed or the bookmaker stays shut for exactly as long as the decision does, and opens again with it. Screen Time does the closing, on your device — we never see which apps you use, only the ones you pick. You can also shut them for an hour or a day on their own, without locking anything away, and set a window that closes them every night. A WORD TO YOUR FUTURE SELF Write or record a note while you're clear, and it comes back big at the moment you'd open the entry early. It stays on your device, never synced. WHAT THE PAUSES MADE OF YOU The "You" tab counts what you let go and the money you turned down, how far the wanting drops while you wait, and how fast it fades — "the wanting halves in about 9 hours; 24 hours is usually enough for you". It shows the hours your impulses actually arrive in, and offers to shut those apps in those hours. Ranked by the longest pause you finished, never by how many you started, and counted in decisions, never in days. Every number waits until there's enough of your own history to mean something. A made-up conclusion is worse than none. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Everything you lock is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM before it leaves it. We can't read it. Optional master-password protection puts the key behind a password only you know. FREE AND PREMIUM Every pause length is free, including seven days, and so is the tally of what you turned down. Premium adds the stronger half: locking the apps while a decision waits, and holding more than three at once. Premium is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime unlock. These are early access prices while the app is still growing — they go up later. What you pay for lifetime stays yours. — Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vasilinoff.github.io/timelocked-legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

Smooth Countdown Lite4 screens
TimeLocked4 screens

Verdict

The call

Smooth Countdown Lite and TimeLocked both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of TimeLocked's written reviews are positive against 13% of Smooth Countdown Lite's. TimeLocked also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months). Smooth Countdown Lite's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and device support (3 vs 1). 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. Smooth Countdown Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TimeLocked sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Smooth Countdown Lite against 5.0 for TimeLocked. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 13% of Smooth Countdown Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of TimeLocked's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smooth Countdown Lite ships an update every 13 months, TimeLocked weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Smooth Countdown Lite versus TimeLocked: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmooth Countdown LiteTimeLocked
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS6.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiet JonasVasily Ponomarev

Customer experience

Smooth Countdown Lite

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

TimeLocked

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smooth Countdown Lite

One-time1
  • Smooth Countdown Upgrade$0.99
2 purchases

TimeLocked

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • 1 Year Premium14 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Smooth Countdown Lite free?
Smooth Countdown Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TimeLocked free?
TimeLocked is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smooth Countdown Lite or TimeLocked?
Smooth Countdown Lite and TimeLocked are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Smooth Countdown Lite or TimeLocked have ads?
Neither Smooth Countdown Lite nor TimeLocked shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smooth Countdown Lite or TimeLocked?
Smooth Countdown Lite ships an update every 13 months, and TimeLocked weekly. Most recently, Smooth Countdown Lite was updated on October 9, 2026 and TimeLocked on October 17, 2026.

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