Comparison

ColoredTime Lite vs Photo Cross Stitch Pattern

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ColoredTime Lite

Create and share custom analog clocks to visualize time and events. Personalize clock faces and hands with images, and sync events with your calendar. Ideal for managing schedules, engaging children, or simply for aesthetic enjoyment.

Highlights
  • Create up to 3 analog clocks
  • Visualize time and events with color
  • Customize clock faces and hands
  • Use custom images for clock elements
  • Sync events with calendars
  • Share clock setups
Features
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ColoredTime is a great app for everybody who wants to create and share individualized clocks, whether for managing daily events, teaching and engaging children, or just for fun and beauty. The app offers up to 10 analog clocks to visualize time and events in a colorful and customizable way. Each event has its own color and the space between events can be left gray or appear as a gradient. Clock-faces and -hands can be resized and filled with custom images from the camera or even the web. The app allows for exchanging events with your calendars. Also the setup of the clock can be shared between users via messages or calendars. In "ColoredTime" there are only up to three clocks, a limited selection of colors and only up to 10 imports and exports of clock setups are possible. Get "ColoredTime Pro" to remove these limitations.

About

Photo Cross Stitch Pattern

Features
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Turn any photo into a real cross-stitch pattern you can actually stitch. Threadly takes a picture from your library and builds a proper counted cross-stitch chart — mapped to true DMC floss codes, drawn as a clear symbol grid, and exported as a clean, printable multi-page PDF with a full thread legend. No guessing which colors to buy. No fuzzy screenshots to squint at. Just a chart you can print, pin up, and stitch. You stay in control. Choose your grid size to match your fabric and finished dimensions, and set how many colors you want — fewer for a bold, beginner-friendly design, more for rich detail. Threadly picks the closest real DMC threads for you and lays everything out automatically. Everything happens right on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded, and there's no account to make. Pay once — no subscription, no per-pattern fees, no watermarks. FEATURES • PHOTO TO PATTERN — turn any photo into a counted cross-stitch chart in seconds. • REAL DMC COLORS — every shade mapped to an actual DMC floss code so you know exactly what to buy. • SYMBOL CHART — a clean, readable grid with a distinct symbol per color, the way stitchers expect. • PRINTABLE PDF — export a multi-page PDF with the chart plus a complete thread legend, ready to print at home. • C2C CROCHET — the same grid as a corner-to-corner graph, with diagonal row numbers from the bottom-left and written increase/decrease rows. • PICK YOUR GRID SIZE — control stitch count and finished size to match your fabric. • CHOOSE YOUR COLORS — set how many thread colors to use, from simple to detailed. • 100% ON-DEVICE — no uploads, no account, no cloud. Your photos stay on your phone. • PAY ONCE — one honest price. No subscription. No hidden unlocks. Whether it's a pet, a portrait, a landscape, or a favorite memory, Threadly turns it into a pattern you can hold in your hands and stitch stitch by stitch. Questions or feedback: overlapmarr@gmail.com

Screenshots

ColoredTime Lite4 screens
Photo Cross Stitch Pattern4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ColoredTime Lite at none against Photo Cross Stitch Pattern's 1. ColoredTime Lite also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Photo Cross Stitch Pattern's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Photo Cross Stitch Pattern sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ColoredTime Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ColoredTime Lite ships an update monthly, Photo Cross Stitch Pattern every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
ColoredTime Lite versus Photo Cross Stitch Pattern: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColoredTime LitePhoto Cross Stitch Pattern
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB1 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperSven BergmannJhomar Maravillas

In-app purchases

None

ColoredTime Lite

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Photo Cross Stitch Pattern

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is ColoredTime Lite free?
ColoredTime Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Photo Cross Stitch Pattern free?
Photo Cross Stitch Pattern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ColoredTime Lite or Photo Cross Stitch Pattern have ads?
Neither ColoredTime Lite nor Photo Cross Stitch Pattern shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ColoredTime Lite or Photo Cross Stitch Pattern?
ColoredTime Lite ships an update monthly, and Photo Cross Stitch Pattern every 10 days. Most recently, ColoredTime Lite was updated on October 14, 2026 and Photo Cross Stitch Pattern on October 25, 2026.

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