Self timer vs Awesome Screen Recorder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Self timer
Capture group photos and selfies with a customizable delay timer. Adjust flash settings and choose between front or rear cameras. Easily crop and share your favorite moments.
- Customizable delay timer
- Flash adjustment
- Front/rear camera selection
- Photo cropping
- Direct sharing to social media
- Save to photo album
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Have you ever felt excluded from your favorite photos? Well now you can be part of them too! Set the Time you want, get everyone ready in the right pose and then get in among your friends. Adjust the Flash if the lighting isn’t sufficient and choose whether to use the front or rear camera. Disappointing photo? No problems, the crop function puts everything in the right place. All you have to do is share your favorite moments with Facebook, Twitter, email, sms, print them or save them in your photo album. Have Fun!
Awesome Screen Recorder
Easily capture your iPhone screen for gameplay, live streams, app demos, or tutorials. Edit recordings with trimming, splitting, and adding facecam reactions. Export and share your creations directly.
- One-tap screen recording
- High-resolution recording
- System audio and microphone recording
- Trim, split, and compress videos
- Add facecam reaction and voice commentary
- Convert video to GIF
- Save and share recordings
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Want to record gameplay or live stream, or make app demos and tutorials on your iPhone? Awesome Screen Recorder can help. It allows you to capture everything on your screen easily, edit the recordings with various useful tools and export the videos to your photo library. Check out the description below to see how it can help. Record Your Screen •One tap to start recording • High-resolution for free •No ads or watermarks •System audio and microphone sound Edit Your Recording •Change length by trimming and splitting •Mute audio •Change aspect ratio •Add facecam reaction •Add voice commentary •Compress video •Convert video to GIF Share Your Video •Save to Photos •Share through Messages •Share to other apps Get the app and start creating your recording videos today! Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions.
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Verdict
Self timer and Awesome Screen Recorder both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 70% of Awesome Screen Recorder's written reviews are positive against 0% of Self timer's. Awesome Screen Recorder also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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
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 — 4.5 for Self timer against 4.6 for Awesome Screen Recorder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Awesome Screen Recorder has 689 ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Self timer's written reviews are positive against 70% of Awesome Screen Recorder's.
Self timer ships an update every 3 months, Awesome Screen Recorder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Self timer | Awesome Screen Recorder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (38 ratings) | 4.6 (689 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 70.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 689 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | luca calciano | Diigo Inc. |
Customer experience
Self timer
Awesome Screen Recorder
Bugs and requests
Self timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Awesome Screen Recorder
Reported bugs
4 issues- Recorded videos disappear
- Can't convert videos to GIF
- Face cam and microphone issues
- Laggy performance
Requested features
5 requests- Add more bitrate recording options
- Improve video trimming and editing tools
- Add ability to livestream
- Fix issue with rotating screen to record games
- Improve compatibility with apps like Zoom and Teams
In-app purchases
Self timer
No in-app purchases
Awesome Screen Recorder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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