Secondwind vs Limiter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Secondwind
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Secondwind runs a list of timers in order, save your lists, run in the background! Minimalist view! Build the list once: warm up, work, rest, repeat then press play, and stop watching. Steps spoken out loud or with their own sound, so you can follow a whole session without looking at the screen. Place the app in the background and listen to your favorite music! WHAT A LIST IS Up to ten timers, run in sequence. Each one carries its own duration, its own sound and its own repeat count, and the list itself can loop a set number of rounds or keep going until you stop it. Name the steps! Warm up, Sprint, Recover, the labels sit on the cards, and you hear them when each step begins. Save up to five lists by name. Each one remembers how many times you have finished it. IT SPEAKS Secondwind announces each step as it starts and counts you into the next one. Spoken cues are on from the first launch and keep working with the screen off, the app in the background, and the phone face down on a bench. Everything sounds through the silent switch, deliberately. END BY A CLOCK TIME Set a time and the sequence stops there. Loop a circuit until six. End the session when your meeting starts. It turns an interval timer into something you can point at the end of your day rather than something you have to sit and watch. ON THE LOCK SCREEN A live card carries the step you are on, the time left in it and where you are in the run, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, without unlocking anything. THE SMALL THINGS Seven boundary sounds, chosen per timer. Three complete visual themes. A master volume that scales everything the app plays. And a wall of achievements, some of which you will have to go and find. FREE, AND PRIVATE Secondwind is free. There is no account, no sign-up and nothing to subscribe to. Your timers, saved lists and history live on your iPhone and nowhere else, we hold no copy of any of it.
Limiter
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A limiter doesn't mute the signal. It caps the peaks. Limiter counts every clean day you've had, across every run, and gives each day four moves: a pledge, one meeting, one person, and an evening review. Each takes under a minute. Nothing is scored. For gambling, drinking, drugs, vaping, weed, porn, gaming, shopping, your phone, or anything else you want to stop or cut down. WHAT'S FREE, ALWAYS · The counter. Total days and current run. · Today: a pledge, one meeting, one person, an evening review. · Online and in-person meetings, each linked to the fellowship's own listing, on your phone and offline. · Online meetings starting soon, one tap to join, and a page for every meeting with what to expect the first time. · A reminder before a meeting you keep, with Join or Directions on it. · Log the meetings you go to. Count 90 in 90 if you want to. · Up to five people. Call or text in one tap, with a message written ahead. · If-then plans for your own triggers. · A panic screen that works with no signal: your people, your plans, your own letter, and crisis numbers. One tap from the Lock Screen. · A private journal with no length limit, and an evening review. · Guided inner work: what matters, and what it has cost. · Encrypted sync across your devices. No account, no sign-in, no password. · Your own hard dates: one quiet reminder the evening before. · Export everything. YOUR TOTAL NEVER RESETS Most apps zero you out after a relapse. Limiter tracks two numbers: every clean day you have ever had, which only goes up, and your current run, which starts over. A relapse moves one number and adds to the other. Then it asks what happened before it, because that's the part worth knowing. CUTTING DOWN COUNTS Not everyone is going for zero. Set a cap instead: how much, how often, how long, with a cooling-off period after. This one was built for it. IT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Your journal, your notes, the people you add, the meetings you go to and everything you log about what you used stay on your device and in your phone's own backup. They are never uploaded to us, never read, never moderated. There is no account to create and no server holding your history. LIMITER FULL Pattern analysis · Every inner-work exercise · Taper planning · Full history $9.99/month · $29.99/year · $59.99 once Your subscription appears as OB DATA LLC on your statement. Limiter is a tracking tool. It is not medical care and does not diagnose or treat anything. Talk to a doctor before changing how much you take of anything. Stopping alcohol or benzodiazepines without supervision can be dangerous. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://getlimiter.com/privacy In the US: Problem gambling helpline: 1-800-MY-RESET Treatment referral: 1-800-662-HELP Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988 Outside the US, the app shows your country's lines or your local emergency number.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Secondwind at none against Limiter's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Limiter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Secondwind asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Secondwind | Limiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PNW Solutions | OB Data LLC |
In-app purchases
Secondwind
No in-app purchases
Limiter
- Limiter Pro Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Limiter Pro Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year
- Limiter Full — Lifetime$59.99









