Timer Vibration Text Speech vs Cyclic Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer Vibration Text Speech
This app provides a vibration-based timer with text-to-speech functionality. It repeats alarms and vibrations at set intervals, displays elapsed time, and can run in the background or on the lock screen. Ideal for focused study sessions without audible alerts.
- Vibration alarms
- Text-to-speech alerts
- Background operation
- Lock screen notifications
- Countdown and countup timers
- One-line text notes
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A simple and easy-to-use vibration text-to-speech timer free app that repeats alarms and vibrations at specified times in minutes and seconds with a one-line text notes. After the set time has elapsed, the elapsed time is counted, alarm vibration and reading text are repeated. A vibration timer with no sound if the sound is muted. It also works in the background and lock screen, and notifies the end 5 times every 5 seconds. A countdown timer and a countup timer that are convenient for studying.
Cyclic Timer
This app provides a repeating countdown timer that keeps your screen active. It can silently alert you when the timer reaches zero and automatically restart based on your settings. Ideal for timed work, workouts, or gaming sessions.
- Repeating countdown timer
- Keeps screen light up
- Silent alerts
- Automatic restart
- Customizable intervals
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Do you ever want a timer that repeats itself? Cyclic Timer keeps your screen light up and count down silently. When the timer reaches zero, it fires and repeats (upon your setting). The alert sound can be muted so it does not disturb your important work. This could be useful during workout, gaming, or any work that you do need to be notified in every certain time frame. *This is not a timer that supposed to run in the background.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cyclic Timer at 5.0 against Timer Vibration Text Speech's 4.5. Cyclic Timer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Timer Vibration Text Speech's advantage is ratings volume (70 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
Cyclic Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timer Vibration Text Speech has 70 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Timer Vibration Text Speech ships an update every 8 months, Cyclic Timer every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer Vibration Text Speech | Cyclic Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (70 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SHIGETO TAKAGI | Yuantong Lu |
Customer experience
Timer Vibration Text Speech
Cyclic Timer
In-app purchases
Timer Vibration Text Speech
No in-app purchases
Cyclic Timer
No in-app purchases
