Infinite Timer vs Lucid Scribe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Infinite Timer
This app offers a versatile countdown timer for various activities like work, cooking, training, and meditation. It provides a beautiful and adaptable countdown experience to suit your daily needs.
- Versatile countdown timer
- Focus and productivity tool
- Adaptable to daily activities
- Beautiful countdown interface
- Suitable for work, cooking, training, meditation
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Infinite Timer is the ultimate timer app designed for focus, productivity, and flexibility. Whether you’re working, cooking, training, meditating, or just need a beautiful countdown – Infinite Timer adapts to your life.
Lucid Scribe
This app offers a comprehensive system for achieving lucid dreams. It includes guided induction techniques, a detailed dream journal with speech-to-text, and integration with REM-detection devices. Enhance your dream recall and awareness with various tools and personalized cues.
- Guided lucid dream induction techniques
- Speech-to-text dream journal
- Dream sign detection and categorization
- REM-detection device integration
- Customizable audio and light cues
- Smart alarm for natural waking
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Lucid Scribe is a comprehensive lucid dreaming system with guided induction techniques, a dream journal with speech-to-text dictation and dream sign detection, REM-detection device integration, and detailed progress tracking. Dream Journal: Record your dreams with speech-to-text dictation: tap the microphone and describe your dream hands-free. Organize with categories and tags, track lucidity and clarity levels, and discover recurring dream signs automatically. Full-text search, detailed statistics with charts, and export/import backups as .LSD files. Auto-tag dreams based on keywords to identify patterns over time. INSPEC REM-Detection Device: Connect the INSPEC lucid dreaming device via Bluetooth for real-time REM sleep detection using machine vision: https://inspec.me - view hypnograms and sleep stage data, configure LED flash sequences, audio cues, and vibration alerts triggered during REM. Includes a Smart Alarm that wakes you naturally at the end of REM cycles for optimal wakefulness dream recall. REM Lights: An electronic lucidity inducer that plays scheduled audio cues and light prompts during the night to trigger awareness in dreams without waking you. Targeted Lucidity Reactivation - Deep Playlist: Plays custom audio tracks during the early hours of the morning over the media channel. Works with Bluetooth headsets and headbands. Focus on recalling your last dream and visualize how you would have acted if you knew you were dreaming. Associate the audio track with a lucid state during the day. Guided Senses Induced Lucid Dream (SSILD): The audio guide walks you through sensory cycles; focusing on sight, hearing, and touch. Instructions repeat with audio cues between cycles. After the delay, cues play at intervals to help trigger lucidity. Drift into sleep while passively observing sensations. FILD Device: Rest your finger on the button and gently tap to reset the timer. Perform a reality check whenever you drift off and hear the audio track that plays when the timer runs out. Dream Exit-Induced Lucid Dream (DEILD): When you wake from a dream, remain still and re-enter the dream state with awareness. Scheduled audio cues help you catch the transition moment. Targeted Dream Incubation (TDI): Play audio phrases after hours of sleep to seed the next dream. Can be configured to play when the FILD module detects sleep onset. MILD Prospective Memory Trainer: Every morning, receive a list of targets to look out for during the day. Snap a picture and perform a reality check when you encounter one to gain XP. Dream Induced Lucid Dream (DILD) - Reality Checks: Smart scheduling with sound cues and dream prompts during REM or after a delay. Supports silent vibration on smartwatches. Boost awareness with scheduled daytime reality checks and earn XP. Wake Back To Bed (WBTB) - Lucid Alarm: Set notifications during the night to wake up and practice lucid dreaming exercises before going back to bed. Mnemonic Inductions (MILD): Before bed, silently read along focusing on your last dream. Reinforces the intention to recognize when you are dreaming. Works with the prospective memory trainer. Mindfulness: Guided exercises including body scan, preparation for sleep, breathing space, and mountain guided imagery. XP Levels & Progress Tracking: Earn experience points for every session across all techniques. Track your level progression, daily streak, total sessions, and time spent. View detailed statistics with contribution graphs and per-technique breakdowns. Features: Dream journal with speech-to-text, dream sign detection, auto-tagging, export/import, INSPEC REM-detection device, Smart Alarm, REM Lights, FILD, MILD, SSILD, DEILD, WBTB, DILD, TLR, TDI, reality checks, mindfulness, prospective memory training, XP levels, streak tracking, and detailed statistics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lucid Scribe at every 2 weeks against Infinite Timer's every 10 months. Lucid Scribe also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Infinite Timer's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
Infinite Timer holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively.
Infinite Timer ships an update every 10 months, Lucid Scribe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Infinite Timer | Lucid Scribe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (6 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 195 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Baptiste DAJON | lucidcode |
Customer experience
Infinite Timer
Lucid Scribe
In-app purchases
Infinite Timer
No in-app purchases
Lucid Scribe
No in-app purchases









