Comparison

Recall vs Timedisk

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

Head to head
About

Recall

This app creates a personal knowledge base by summarizing online content like videos, articles, and podcasts. It automatically categorizes and links saved summaries, aiding in content discovery and connection. It also employs spaced repetition and active recall techniques to enhance long-term knowledge retention.

Highlights
  • Summarize any online content
  • Save summaries to personal knowledge base
  • Automatic categorization of summaries
  • Automatic linking of related content
  • Spaced repetition reviews
  • Active recall testing
Features
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Every AI gives you the same answers. Recall gives you yours. Join over 500K professionals, students and lifelong learners who are saving hours and turning their knowledge into their edge. One living space for your knowledge and the AI model of your choice. Save what matters, write what you think. Over time, you curate an AI that knows what you know. SAVE, SUMMARIZE & ORGANIZE INSTANTLY Share YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, PDFs, TikToks, recipes, and more with the Recall app. We do the rest. AGENTIC AI CHAT Ask questions across your entire knowledge base, search the internet, or combine both in one conversation. Choose your AI model. Switch models mid conversation. No lock in. LISTEN MODE Turn any content into a summary you can listen to in a custom voice you create. Learn on the go, your way. AUTOMATIC ORGANIZATION See how everything you've saved connects. Your content is automatically categorized and linked, no manual filing. Explore your knowledge visually and discover relationships you didn't know existed. QUIZ & RETAIN Stop doom scrolling and start learning. Generate quizzes on any content. Challenge friends with public quizzes. Spaced repetition and active recall resurface what you've saved at optimal intervals to lock it into long-term memory. BUILT FOR POWER USERS Bulk summarize, tag, connect, and generate quizzes at scale. API and MCP access lets you connect your knowledge base to any other AI tool. CROSS-DEVICE SYNC Start on mobile, finish on desktop. Don't break your workflow.

About

Timedisk

Features
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A timer you can read from across the room — and watch drain to nothing. Timedisk shows time as a shrinking disk. A wide coloured wedge fills the screen, and as the minutes pass it visibly disappears. There are no digits to decode and no arithmetic to do: you glance at it and you know how much is left. That is the whole idea, and it works for the people a digital clock has always failed. SET IT IN TWO SECONDS Drag your thumb around the dial to any length, or tap a preset — 5, 10, 15, 25, or one of your own. Start. That is the entire interaction, which matters when starting is the hard part. MADE FOR ADULTS, NOT ONLY CLASSROOMS Visual timers have been styled for six-year-olds for twenty years. Timedisk's default look is clean, quiet, and grown-up, and it can sit on your desk in a meeting without announcing anything about you. When it is for a child, kid mode flips it to big playful shapes and colours. IT KEEPS PERFECT TIME Set it, put the phone face up, walk away, and glance over from the other side of the kitchen. The countdown keeps perfect time even if you close the app or restart the phone, because it counts down to a fixed moment rather than ticking along — and the alert still arrives at zero. CHAIN A ROUTINE Build a routine out of steps — dress 10, breakfast 15, shoes 5 — each with its own label, length, and colour. Timedisk runs them back to back, chimes between them, and always shows what is running now and what is coming next. Mornings, bedtimes, homework blocks, cleaning sprints, lesson changeovers, physio sets. FOR TIME BLINDNESS If you have ADHD, or you look after someone who does, you already know that "five more minutes" is not a unit anyone can feel. A disk that visibly empties turns an abstract number into something you can watch arriving. The same goes for autistic routines, for children who cannot read a clock yet, and for anyone who looks up and finds an hour gone. ALERTS THAT LAND Pick a sound per timer, feel the haptic, and see the screen flash at zero. Through the last stretch the colour shifts to warn you it is nearly up, so the end never ambushes you. Keep the screen awake whenever the disk is on show. PAY ONCE, OWN IT Buy Timedisk Lifetime and it is yours: no subscription, no renewal, no losing your routines because a card expired. An annual plan with a free trial is there too, if you would rather start that way. FREE The complete timer — the disk, presets, alerts, escalating end-of-timer warnings — plus one saved routine of up to three steps. Nothing about the core timer is held back. TIMEDISK PRO • Unlimited routines with unlimited steps • Themes, including kid mode and dark • Custom alert sounds per timer and per step Everything happens on your phone. No account, no sign-up, no cloud, no ads, and no data leaving the device. Pro is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase or as an annual auto-renewing subscription that opens with a 7-day free trial. Prices are shown in your own currency before you buy. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Timedisk is made by Adelyons Software LLC. Questions or requests? Email dev@adelyons.com. Terms of Use (EULA): https://adelyons.com/apps/timedisk/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://adelyons.com/apps/timedisk/privacy.html

Screenshots

Recall4 screens
Timedisk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recall at none against Timedisk's 2. Timedisk's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Timedisk sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Recall asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Recall versus Timedisk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecallTimedisk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaul RichardsAdelyons Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Recall

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Timedisk

Subscriptions1
  • Timedisk Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Timedisk Pro (Lifetime)$14.99

Questions

Is Recall free?
Recall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timedisk free?
Timedisk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Recall or Timedisk have ads?
Neither Recall nor Timedisk shows ads.

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