Comparison

Smooth Countdown Lite vs LED Scroller

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

LED Scroller

Features
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Turn your phone screen into a bright LED banner. Type a message and it scrolls across the screen like a real LED sign — plus a flashlight, an SOS signal, Morse code, a big LED clock and five more light modes. No ads. No account. No internet needed. Where people actually use it • At a concert — hold up a scrolling LED banner with a name the whole crowd can read, or wave a synced lightstick with everyone around you. • At the airport — a big, readable sign to meet someone you have never seen before. • In a blackout — the real rear flashlight, steady or blinking SOS for help. • At a birthday — a candle you blow out with your own breath, then fireworks across the screen. • Walking the dog at night, or reading in the dark — a steady color light, as bright or as dim as you want. • Left on overnight — a giant seven-segment LED clock, dimmed for the dark. Ten light modes • Scrolling text — type a message and the screen becomes a scrolling LED sign. Set the color, speed, direction and text size, wrap it over several lines or hold it still, turn on the LED dot grid, add a glowing LED frame around the edge, and make it blink — even blink to the beat of the music in the room. Mirror mode flips the text for holding the phone against a window. • Color light — the screen glows a solid color of your choice at five brightness levels, handy as a room light or an improvised video light. It can also pulse in time with the music around you. • SOS / Strobe — the standard international SOS blink, or a strobe you can set anywhere from 0.5 to 10 flashes per second and sync to the beat. • Scenes — 8 of them: candle, rainbow, police lights, disco, mood, ocean, campfire, TV noise. • Flashlight — turns on the phone's real rear LED flash as a torch, steady or blinking in an SOS pattern, with a start time you can set in advance and an auto-off timer. • Morse code — type text and the app converts it to Morse code, shown as real dots and dashes and played back as a light rhythm on screen, optionally synced with the real flashlight. • Birthday candle — a flickering candle on screen; blow on the phone to blow it out, then relight it. • Clock — a large seven-segment LED clock: 20 world time zones, 12 or 24 hour, six date formats, seconds on or off, dim it for the night, and let it drift slightly so it never burns into the screen. • Fireworks — fireworks burst across the screen; pick a color (including rainbow) and turn on the bang sound effects. • Concert light — a synced lightstick wave: pick a zone, a tempo and a color palette, react to a hand wave or to the beat through the microphone, or use a photo of your own as the lightstick. Also included — Random spin. A wheel for picking a name or settling a decision: type your own list of up to 24 entries, spin it, or shake the phone. Every color can be mixed by hand, not just picked from a swatch. Every mode can be saved as a preset and set to switch itself off after 5 to 60 minutes. The app follows the system's light or dark appearance and speaks seven languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Indonesian. What this app does NOT do • No ads. No banners, no video ads, no in-app purchases. • No account required. No sign-in, no email or phone number collected. • No internet required. The app works fully offline — it never sends or receives data. • No tracking. No analytics SDK, no ad SDK, no data shared with anyone. • No recording of any kind. The camera is only used to switch the flashlight on; the microphone only reads how loud the room is right now (to catch a blow or follow a beat) — nothing is ever recorded or saved. A picture you pick for the lightstick stays on your phone and is never uploaded.

Screenshots

Smooth Countdown Lite4 screens
LED Scroller4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LED Scroller at none against Smooth Countdown Lite's 1. Smooth Countdown Lite's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.4). On price 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. LED Scroller asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Smooth Countdown Lite versus LED Scroller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmooth Countdown LiteLED Scroller
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 13 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS6.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiet JonasTHONG PHAM VAN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smooth Countdown Lite

One-time1
  • Smooth Countdown Upgrade$0.99
None

LED Scroller

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smooth Countdown Lite free?
Smooth Countdown Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LED Scroller free?
LED Scroller is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smooth Countdown Lite or LED Scroller have ads?
Neither Smooth Countdown Lite nor LED Scroller shows ads.

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