Simply Clock vs RetirementTracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simply Clock
This app displays the current time in a large, easy-to-read analog format. It offers gesture controls for customization, allowing users to change colors, show/hide elements, and adjust brightness. Multiple designs can be saved for quick access.
- Large, easy-to-read analog time display
- Gesture controls for customization
- Save multiple clock designs
- Supports 24-hour format
- No advertising
- Email support
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Simply Clock will show you the most current time in a lovingly designed layout. Due to the huge size of the displayed time you can read it very easily. How Simply Clock is controlled with gestures is described in the FAQ's! What time is it? The app gives you the answer! • No annoying advertising • E-Mail Support (German / English) • Clear layout / easy to use • 24h format is supported • gesture control > 1 finger: change colors > 2 fingers: show / hide date > 3 fingers: Show / hide statusbar > 4 fingers: Show / hide seconds / year > Swipe: change the brightness or light intensity > Long tap: Change font > Shake: Show help • use it for promotional purposes / grandfather clock • Save multiple designs > Delete: by a longer tap • FAQ available • PS: If you have any questions or requests feel free to contact the support. Please check beforehand, if your questions can already be solved with FAQ. Every comment helps to improve Simply Clock. enjoy..
RetirementTracker
This app tracks the remaining workdays until your retirement, deducting weekends, public holidays, and vacation time. It offers detailed calculations, customizable plans, and motivating milestones to keep your finish line in view.
- Workday countdown to retirement
- Deducts weekends, holidays, and vacation
- Career progress percentage
- Customizable workweek and vacation
- Milestones and reminders
- Shareable countdown image
- Local data storage
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How many workdays are left until you retire? RetirementTracker is your retirement countdown: it counts not just the calendar days until your retirement date, but your real workdays – weekends, your region's public holidays and your vacation are already deducted. Up to date every day, live down to the second. Whether retirement is months or many years away, RetirementTracker keeps your finish line in view. YOUR RETIREMENT COUNTDOWN • Calendar days until your retirement date, live with hours, minutes and seconds • Your actual workdays until retirement – after weekends, public holidays and vacation • Career progress: what percentage of your working life is already behind you? • Weeks and months until retirement at a glance • Motivating messages for your final years at work • Share your countdown as an image with family, friends and coworkers TRANSPARENT CALCULATION No guesswork: the detailed breakdown shows how your workdays add up – weekdays, non-working days, your region's public holidays and your total vacation entitlement until retirement, including the vacation you haven't planned yet. YOUR RETIREMENT PLAN, YOUR RULES • Set your retirement date • Choose your workweek: Monday to Friday, part-time or your own workdays • Enter vacation days per year and the days you have left this year • Optional: your career start date for your career progress • Work phases: plan changes to your workweek, such as fewer workdays before retirement • What-if plans: save different retirement plans and compare them MILESTONES & REMINDERS • Automatic milestones such as 1,000, 500 or 100 days left • Your own milestones for personal stages • Reminders on the milestone day and the day before at 8:00 AM VACATION, HOLIDAYS & LONG WEEKENDS • Vacation calendar with your vacation, public holidays and your own holidays • See the upcoming public holidays at a glance • Public holidays for 13 countries, including every US state, the UK nations, all German states and Swiss cantons, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland and the Nordic countries • A holiday is missing? Add it yourself – it counts in the calculation • Find time off: combine public holidays and vacation into long weekends and longer breaks WIDGETS WITH PREMIUM With RetirementTracker Premium, your countdown lives on your home screen: • Workdays, calendar days, progress and motivation widgets • Each in light and dark • With your own photo • One-time purchase: no ads, no subscription YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU All your details are stored locally on your device. No account, no sign-up. IN 5 LANGUAGES English, German, French, Italian and Spanish – in light and dark mode. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose your retirement date, country and region 2. Enter your workweek and vacation days 3. Start your countdown – RetirementTracker does the math WHO IS RETIREMENTTRACKER FOR? • Anyone planning their retirement who wants to count the workdays left • Full-time and part-time employees who want to keep track of vacation and holidays until retirement • Anyone who wants to approach their final working years with a clear goal in sight • Everyone who looks forward to retirement a little more every day WHY RETIREMENTTRACKER? Real workdays instead of a rough estimate A calculation you can follow, with a detailed breakdown Your region's public holidays included automatically Flexible for full-time, part-time and planned changes Clear, fast and no account needed Premium is a one-time purchase – no subscription Note: RetirementTracker counts the days until the retirement date you choose. It does not calculate pension amounts, is not affiliated with any pension provider or authority, and does not provide financial or retirement advice. Holiday data without guarantee. Start your retirement countdown today and watch retirement get closer every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simply Clock at 83% against RetirementTracker's 0%. Simply Clock also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). RetirementTracker's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On 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
RetirementTracker is free to download; Simply Clock costs $0.99 up front. RetirementTracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simply Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simply Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simply Clock has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Simply Clock's written reviews are positive against 0% of RetirementTracker's.
Simply Clock ships an update every 2 months, RetirementTracker every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simply Clock | RetirementTracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | best-ios-apps | Vincent Waelken |
Customer experience
Simply Clock
RetirementTracker
In-app purchases
Simply Clock
No in-app purchases
RetirementTracker
- Premium-Widgets$1.99
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