Disco Timer vs Ticking
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!
Ticking
This utility app helps you visualize the duration of important moments and upcoming events. Track time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years with customizable countdowns and reminders.
- Visualize time durations
- Countdown to events
- Set reminders
- Track in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years
- Customizable displays
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Ticking is a time counting tool. It helps you visualize the duration of your memorable moment, or important upcoming events, in terms of second, minute, hour, day, week and year.
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Verdict
Disco Timer and Ticking both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Disco Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Ticking's. Disco Timer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (97 vs 12). Ticking's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 15.4). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Ticking sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Disco Timer against 4.7 for Ticking. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Disco Timer has 97 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Disco Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Ticking's.
Disco Timer ships an update every 5 months, Ticking monthly. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Disco Timer | Ticking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (97 ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Codulis | Qian Kun zhu |
Customer experience
Disco Timer
Ticking
In-app purchases
Disco Timer
- Disco Timer Premium$2.99
Ticking
- Remove Ads$0.99
