Comparison

Turninn vs InSight Countdown

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

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About

Turninn

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You know what time you should go to bed. You also know you won't β€” not because the time is hidden, but because nothing in your day gently reminds you it's coming. Turninn is a bedtime countdown that lives on your Lock Screen, your Home Screen, and your Dynamic Island β€” always in the corner of your eye, never in your face. It treats the hours before bed as something to be quietly handed back to you, not taken from you. Turninn asks two questions, once: when do you want to wake up, and how long do you want to sleep. That's it. From then on, you almost never open the app again. Your countdown takes its place among the widgets you already use β€” the weather, the battery, the calendar β€” so that a glance at your phone during the day is also a small, wordless check-in with yourself. On the Lock Screen, Turninn fits into the circular, rectangular, or inline slots your screen already has. The circular widget shows a soft lunar arc and a number small enough to belong. The rectangular widget is a single line of plain language: hours and minutes until bed, tonight's bedtime beneath it. The inline widget is a whisper at the top of your screen β€” a crescent and a few quiet characters. On the Home Screen, the small widget is a full pane of glass with a slow hourglass that thins through the day. The medium widget adds your wake time and your chosen sleep length, so the whole plan for tonight sits on one square of your screen. Once bedtime passes, the widget stops counting down and simply tells you how long ago it went by. Sixty minutes before bedtime, Turninn starts a Live Activity. Your Dynamic Island shows a bed glyph and a calm countdown. On the Lock Screen, a narrow banner does the same thing. It does not have a snooze button. It does not have a "got it" button. There is nothing on it you can press to make it go away, because the feeling of being able to press the feeling away is the feeling that kept you scrolling in the first place. At bedtime, if you've turned the soft nudge on β€” it's off by default β€” you get one silent, passive notification. No sound, no badge, no red dot. Open it and you land on a full-screen page with a short line written in the tone of someone wishing you well. Tap Goodnight, and the app is done with you until morning. Turninn has no account, no cloud, no streaks, no score, no history graph, no theme store, and no subscription. It does not read your Health data. It does not know if you actually slept on time. It is not here to grade you; it is here to keep the number in view. Your bedtime and your wake time are the only two things it knows, and they never leave your device. Designed for iOS 17 and later. Works entirely offline. Available in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese.

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InSight Countdown

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Keep what matters in sight. InSight Countdown turns the wait for what matters into something you actually look forward to seeing. Set a countdown to an exact date and time β€” your flight, an exam, a birthday, a deadline β€” not just a vague duration. A huge, glanceable countdown fills your screen, ticking down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the precise moment. FEATURES β€’ Count down to an exact date & time Pick the exact calendar date and time of your event β€” or a simple duration when that's all you need. The closest event is always front and center. Add a note β€” flight number, gate, address β€” shown in small type under the name. β€’ Synced across your devices Your countdowns stay in sync between iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your private iCloud β€” the same events, each keeping its own visualization, follow you everywhere. Your countdowns are yours β€” their content is never sent to us. β€’ Choose how time looks Watch time melt away in a draining hourglass, a progress ring, a rounded bar, a Time-Timer-style shrinking disc, a dot grid, a dot dial, a solar eclipse, an unwinding spiral, or a sun along its day arc β€” plus themed styles: a Christmas tree lighting up branch by branch, a birthday cake whose candles flicker on, a beach parasol opening as the sun rises, a cocktail glass that fills, a car climbing a mountain road, a plane arcing around a globe, and lit-up landmarks (the Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa). Pick a look that fits the occasion β€” a parasol for a trip, a cake for a birthday β€” so a glance tells you what's coming. Swipe to switch right on the countdown; each remembers its own, synced across your devices. Landscape keeps a sleek linear bar. β€’ Make it yours Pick a digit font β€” from a clean system face to a retro seven-segment LCD β€” and tint the whole app with a preset accent color or any color you choose. β€’ Many countdowns, one glance The nearest event takes the main screen; the rest sit in a quick-access bottom bar. Choose per countdown when it takes the main screen β€” always, only when it's near, only on its day, or never β€” so a far-off event doesn't crowd out nearer ones. On iPad and Mac, watch several at once β€” a small or large grid, a zoomed layout that enlarges the nearest event, or Duo, which puts two side by side or one above the other to fit your screen. β€’ Daily & weekly repeats Set a countdown to repeat every day, or on the weekdays you choose (say Mon/Wed/Fri), and it rolls forward automatically after it finishes β€” great for routines, classes, standups, and recurring reminders. β€’ Beat procrastination β€” and have fun doing it A deadline you can see is harder to ignore. Keep the countdown in front of you β€” full screen or on the Lock Screen β€” and watch the remaining time melt away. Visible time is a classic focus technique: an abstract deadline feels real. Better yet, the task you kept putting off becomes a screen you want to watch. β€’ Lock Screen & Dynamic Island Show your countdowns as Live Activities on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Choose per countdown whether it appears always, only when it's near, only on the event day, or never. β€’ Doubles as an alarm across your devices The instant a countdown hits zero, an alert breaks through silent mode and Focus β€” and on iOS 26 it rings until you dismiss it, so any countdown works as a full alarm. Add an early reminder (from 10 seconds to a day before), or ring the alarm a few seconds ahead. Because your countdowns sync through iCloud, the same alarm can ring on whichever device is with you. β€’ iPhone, iPad & Mac The full-screen countdown adapts to any size and rotation β€” a phone in your pocket, an iPad propped up as an always-on display, or a resizable Mac window. The controls fade away when you're not touching the screen, leaving just the countdown. β€’ Stays awake when you want Optional screen-lock control keeps the display on β€” always or only while charging β€” so your countdown stays in sight. Free. No account needed. Your countdowns are yours.

Screenshots

Turninn4 screens
InSight Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Turninn at every 9 days against InSight Countdown's monthly. Turninn also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Turninn ships an update every 9 days, InSight Countdown monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Turninn versus InSight Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTurninnInSight Countdown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 days β€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size1 MB9 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperδΌŸη§€ 吴Aliaksandr Harbavets

In-app purchases

None

Turninn

No in-app purchases

None

InSight Countdown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Turninn free?
Turninn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is InSight Countdown free?
InSight Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Turninn or InSight Countdown have ads?
Neither Turninn nor InSight Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Turninn or InSight Countdown?
Turninn ships an update every 9 days, and InSight Countdown monthly. Most recently, Turninn was updated on September 19, 2026 and InSight Countdown on September 9, 2026.

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