Smooth Countdown Lite vs TimeLocked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Smoothly animated background
- Day and night mode toggle
- Customizable alarm (none, one, repeated)
- 12 and 24 hour format support
- Ideal for device docks
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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
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Smooth Countdown Lite | TimeLocked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Vasily Ponomarev |
Customer experience
Smooth Countdown Lite
TimeLocked
In-app purchases
Smooth Countdown Lite
- Smooth Countdown Upgrade$0.99
TimeLocked
- 1 Month Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- 1 Year Premium14 Days trial$19.991 Year
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