Cycles vs Cycle Music Timer 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cycles
Explore curated music playlists and share your own collections. Preview tracks and connect with other music lovers, regardless of your streaming service. Find new inspiration or share your favorite songs.
- Discover curated playlists
- Share music collections
- Preview tracks
- Connect with music lovers
- Cross-platform music sharing
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Discover a new way to connect with music lovers! With our app, you can explore curated playlists, share your own music collections, and even preview tracks before diving in. Whether you’re a Spotify user or not, enjoy a seamless music-sharing experience that’s designed to bring people together through the love of music. Perfect for finding inspiration, exploring genres, or sharing your latest favorites with friends!
Cycle Music Timer 2
This app provides a large, easy-to-read timer and music player for spin class instructors. It displays playlists, track durations, and custom exercise drills, optimized for both iPad and iPhone screens. Easily manage your music and class routines from your device.
- Large countdown timer
- Playlist and track display
- Integrated music player
- Customizable exercise drills
- Easy drill note editing
- Optimized for iPad and iPhone
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CycleTimer2 is a free app that runs on iPads and iPhones and is particularly useful for spin class teachers. It displays playlists, tracks, a music player, and your own custom exercise drills that are easily read from a stationary bike when your iPad or iPhone is over on the stereo stack. The large time display counts down from the track's maximum duration to zero. On an iPad, CycleTimer2 runs in landscape orientation. On an iPhone, CycleTimer2 runs in portrait orientation. The app presents the playlists from the Apple device's music library. Choose a playlist and the app shows the tracks within that playlist. Each track has a time, in blue, showing the remaining minutes and seconds in the playlist, counting this track. Choose a track and the app shows the music player. Beneath the countdown timer there is a large area where you can create, edit, and save exercise drill notes. The drill notes can be copied and pasted into other tracks drill notes using standard iOS touch editing methods.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cycle Music Timer 2 at none against Cycles's shown. Cycle Music Timer 2 also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Cycles's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cycles against 5.0 for Cycle Music Timer 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cycles ships an update every 3 months, Cycle Music Timer 2 every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Cycles | Cycle Music Timer 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cycles Studios Inc. | Stewart French |
Customer experience
Cycles
Cycle Music Timer 2
In-app purchases
Cycles
No in-app purchases
Cycle Music Timer 2
No in-app purchases
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