Comparison

Alarm & Timer vs aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

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

Head to head
About

Alarm & Timer

This all-in-one clock app offers customizable alarms, timers, and stopwatches in a clean interface. It features privacy-friendly headphone-only alarms and advanced scheduling options. Personalize themes, fonts, and time displays for a tailored experience.

Highlights
  • Unlimited customizable alarms
  • Multiple simultaneous timers
  • Precise stopwatch with lap times
  • World clock with multiple time zones
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Privacy-friendly headphone alarms
  • Advanced scheduling and repeat options
Features
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Simple, powerful, and customizable. This all-in-one clock app combines Alarm, Timer, and Stopwatch functions into a clean, intuitive interface. Privacy-friendly: When headphones are connected, the alarm sounds only through the headphones, not the device speakers. By making advanced features optional, we maintain a minimalist design while meeting a wide range of user needs. [General] Customization: Color themes, "My Theme" creation, and adjustable font sizes. Typography: Choose from system fonts, specialized clock fonts, or even add your own custom fonts. Time Display: Toggle between 12/24-hour formats, customize 12:00 vs. 0:00 display, and enable/disable leading zeros (e.g., 09:00 vs. 9:00). [Clock] Dual analog and digital display with extensive layout options. Design: Multiple dial designs and support for custom image/video backgrounds. Visibility: Toggle seconds, choose second hand movement (Ticking vs. Smooth), and customize date formats/languages. Dynamic Layout: Hide the status bar, tab bar, or settings button for a cleaner look. Digital-only mode available in landscape orientation. Hourly Chime: Use simple presets or create a fully customized hourly schedule. World Clock: View multiple cities and time zones simultaneously in a convenient list. [Alarm] Set unlimited alarms with full background notification support. Compatible with AlarmKit (iOS 26.1+), allowing alarms to sound even in Silent or Focus modes. Scheduling: Powerful repeat options including daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and custom intervals (e.g., every 2 days). Supports pause periods. Sound: Use custom recordings or local music files (when the app is in the foreground). Management: Organize alarms with folders, label search, and easy duplication. Sort by time or firing order. Advanced Features: Checklist, Snooze, Auto-stop (by duration/repetition), Skip next, and one-tap global pause. New alarms can automatically inherit previous settings for faster setup. [Timer] Run multiple timers simultaneously ranging from 1 second to 10000 hours. Quick Start: Access presets and history for instant activation. Interface: Switch between list and full-screen views. Choose between 10-key or picker input with customizable units (1s/10s/1m/10m). Foreground Features: Displays estimated completion time and supports auto-stop for sounds. [Stopwatch] Records: Capture lap times with precision. Export: Send your recorded data as a text file via email. [Other Settings] System Integration: Audio mix mode (play alongside other music apps), and Auto-lock. Display: Brightness adjustment with "Darkness Correction" and customizable UI elements (toggle between switches or checkboxes). Note on Music: Currently, this app does not support playback for Apple Music, iCloud-only songs, or purchased songs that have not been downloaded to the device storage. URL Scheme: net.hakoniwa.clock://

About

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

This app allows you to display multiple analog clocks simultaneously, with customizable skins and locator buttons. It supports over 200 cities worldwide and offers notifications for daylight saving time and holidays.

Highlights
  • Run multiple analog clocks
  • Select from 22 clock skins
  • Highlight locator buttons
  • Covers over 200 cities globally
  • Daylight Saving Time notifications
  • Holiday notifications for specific regions
Features
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aClocks Premium is an advanced version of an existing iPhone app called aClocks. It allows the user to run multiple analog clocks at a time. It comes with several, additional features that aClocks doesn’t have. aClocks Premium lets you select a clock skin out of 22 styles. Some of them are quite pretty. Also, aClocks Premium lets you highlight locator buttons so that you can give some of the clocks special attention. - Features - 1. Run multiple analog clocks at a time. Scroll the middle view left to right or vice versa to locate a clock if you have two or more clocks. 2. Tap the name of a city, which is in fact the title of a push button (locator button), at the bottom view to quickly locate the corresponding clock. 3. Highlight the titles of locator buttons. 4. The app covers more than 200 cities around the globe. They are divided into 8 regions including Africa, Asia, Atlantic, Australia, Europe, North America, Pacific, South America. 5. The user can choose one of 23 area languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Greek, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Indonesia, Malay, Thai. The area language is responsible for showing the names of 8 areas and all 200+ city names in the selected language. 6. If a clock is under the day light saving time, a rotating, graphic notation appears at the top-left corner. 7. If the corresponding city of the clock is Japanese and the time is under a Japanese national holiday, a graphic notation will appear at the top-right corner of the clock. 8. If a clock points to a U.S. city, which is under the federal holiday, then a graphic notation will appear at the bottom-left corner of the clock. 9. The app comes with 22 clock skins. Apply one of them to all clocks that are currently running. 10.The app prevents the user from installing multiple clocks from the same city. 11.There is no WiFi or WWAN required at any time to run the application. 12.Languages: English and Japanese only. 13.Application file size: 35.3 MB. - System requirements - 1. iOS 9.0 or above 2. iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPod Touch. - Limitations - 1. aClocks Premium allows the user to create as many as two clocks at a time if they choose to use it as freeware. 2. aClocks may be deprived of promised features if the device is jailbroken. 3. As you create more and more clocks, memory consumption will increase. For example, if you run 25 clocks at a time with iPhone 5, the app can require as much as 70 to 105 MB of memory with no known memory leak. 4. The user cannot apply a different clock skin to each clock that is currently running. The same style will apply to all clocks.

Screenshots

Alarm & Timer4 screens
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: aClocks Premium Analog Clocks at 5.0 against Alarm & Timer's 4.3. aClocks Premium Analog Clocks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Alarm & Timer's advantage is ratings volume (2.3K vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Alarm & Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and aClocks Premium Analog Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alarm & Timer has 2.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alarm & Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, aClocks Premium Analog Clocks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Alarm & Timer versus aClocks Premium Analog Clocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlarm & TimeraClocks Premium Analog Clocks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (2.3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB20 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperKAZUTERU YOKOITomoyuki Okawa

Customer experience

Alarm & Timer

All ratings2,248 ratings
Positive81.4%
Neutral6.1%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews505 reviews
Positive58.4%
Neutral12.3%
Negative29.3%

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Alarm & Timer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Alarm not sounding when phone is locked or in sleep mode
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between apps
  • Notification issues when phone is in silent mode

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to set alarms for weekdays only
  • Ability to choose from user's own audio files for alarms
  • Gradual volume increase for alarms
  • Alarm override for silent mode
  • One-time payment option to remove ads

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Alarm & Timer

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$9.99
1 purchases

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

One-time1
  • Unlimited clocks$2.99

Questions

Is Alarm & Timer free?
Alarm & Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is aClocks Premium Analog Clocks free?
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alarm & Timer or aClocks Premium Analog Clocks?
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks is rated higher. Alarm & Timer averages 4.3 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while aClocks Premium Analog Clocks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Alarm & Timer or aClocks Premium Analog Clocks have ads?
Alarm & Timer shows ads; aClocks Premium Analog Clocks does not.
Which is updated more often, Alarm & Timer or aClocks Premium Analog Clocks?
Alarm & Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, and aClocks Premium Analog Clocks fortnightly. Most recently, Alarm & Timer was updated on November 6, 2026 and aClocks Premium Analog Clocks on November 2, 2026.

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