Disco Timer vs CusTimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Disco Timer
This app provides a visually intuitive countdown timer for various tasks, from cooking to presentations. Its unique rotary gesture for setting time and large display make it easy to use and read from a distance. Customize alerts and colors for a personalized experience.
- Rotary gesture time setting
- Large, high-contrast display
- Glanceable from a distance
- Disable auto-lock option
- Customizable color combinations (Premium)
- Variety of exclusive alert tones
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Boiling an egg, timing a presentation, or starting your next Pomodoro – Disco Timer is a universal countdown clock for all sorts of tasks. Setting the timer duration is based on 60-minute circle of traditional analog watches – you just wind it up with a single rotary gesture. Then tap the display to run, pause, or reset the timer. Large, high-contrast representation of the remaining time makes it glanceable from quite a distance. And an option to disable the Auto-Lock can keep the device awake while the timer is running. This comes in very handy when keeping an eye on the progress is as important as the finishing time itself. The face of the timer can be customized by choosing from a variety of color combinations (Premium feature). And for the completion alert – you can select from a dozen great-sounding tones, all of which are crafted exclusively for Codulis apps. Give Disco Timer a try, and let us know what you think!
CusTimer
This highly customizable timer app offers speech reminders, second-by-second beeps, and custom "time's up" messages. It features a large display, elegant fonts, cool animations, and supports timer, stopwatch, and clock modes in four languages.
- Customizable timer settings
- Speech reminders and messages
- Second-by-second beep sounds
- Countdown in last few seconds
- Large, full-screen time display
- Timer, Stopwatch, and Clock modes
- Multi-language speech support
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Want a timer that reminds you, with speech, how much time is left? Or a timer that produces little "beep" sounds every second? Maybe one that can do a countdown in the last few seconds? Or a timer that, instead of playing a sound effect when it finishes, verbalize a custom "time is up" message? Then this is the app for YOU! CusTimer, as the name suggests, is a highly customizable timer app. You can customize your own timer settings in numerous ways: - Whether or not to start a countdown during the last few seconds of the timer - Whether or not to produce beep sounds every second - When time is up, verbalize a message or play a sound - Custom "time is up" messages - Set (regular or not) reminders that reminds you how much time is left - Custom reminder messages Other than the customizations mentioned above, CusTimer has various other features too: - The remaining time is written in a super large font that fills the screen of your device - Highly customisable - 3 modes: Timer, Stopwatch, and Clock - Supports speech in four languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese - Elegant fonts! - Cool animations
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Disco Timer at 4.7 against CusTimer's 4.0. Disco Timer also leads on ratings volume (97 vs 1). CusTimer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ads 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. Disco Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CusTimer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Disco Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Disco Timer has 97 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Disco Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of CusTimer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Disco Timer ships an update every 5 months, CusTimer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Disco Timer | CusTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (97 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Codulis | Xiu Cheng |
Customer experience
Disco Timer
CusTimer
In-app purchases
Disco Timer
- Disco Timer Premium$2.99
CusTimer
No in-app purchases
