Cyclic Timer vs 1440
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cyclic Timer
This app provides a repeating countdown timer that keeps your screen active. It can silently alert you when the timer reaches zero and automatically restart based on your settings. Ideal for timed work, workouts, or gaming sessions.
- Repeating countdown timer
- Keeps screen light up
- Silent alerts
- Automatic restart
- Customizable intervals
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Do you ever want a timer that repeats itself? Cyclic Timer keeps your screen light up and count down silently. When the timer reaches zero, it fires and repeats (upon your setting). The alert sound can be muted so it does not disturb your important work. This could be useful during workout, gaming, or any work that you do need to be notified in every certain time frame. *This is not a timer that supposed to run in the background.
1440
This app helps you track time remaining in your day or specific periods with customizable notifications and visual themes. It encourages a more productive and mindful lifestyle by keeping you aware of passing time. Enjoy personalized settings for alerts, counter direction, and app appearance.
- Set time-based notifications
- Track minutes remaining in the day
- Customizable notification frequency
- Adjustable time periods for counters
- Personalize notification text
- Choose counter direction
- App style and icon customization
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Use 1440 for: - Setting notifications to remind you that another 1/5/10 minutes are gone - Getting information about how much minutes left to the end of the day (or other time of the day you select) - Living more productive and mindful live Customization options: - Change frequency of notifications - Time periods for counter - Change text in notifications - Counter direction (from 1440 to 0 or from 0 to 1440) - Sound or vibration only - App style - change countdown and background colors - App icon - make you iPhone screen more consistent Today widget and Force touch on app icon allow you to quickly change main settings and get the last update about remaining minutes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cyclic Timer at none against 1440's 1. Cyclic Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 1440's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (60 vs 1). 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. 1440 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cyclic Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cyclic Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 1440 has 60 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cyclic Timer ships an update every 12 months, 1440 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cyclic Timer | 1440 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yuantong Lu | Viktor Gavrilov |
Customer experience
Cyclic Timer
1440
In-app purchases
Cyclic Timer
No in-app purchases
1440
- Remove ads$1.99
