Comparison

Age Clock vs ntfy

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

Head to head
About

Age Clock

This app provides highly precise widgets and a watchOS application to display your age in years with extreme accuracy. Track your life's duration down to a very fine-grained value.

Highlights
  • High precision age display
  • Widgets for home screen
  • watchOS application
  • Track life duration
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Age Clock is an application with widgets & watchOS app to see how many years you have lived in a high precision value.

About

ntfy

This app allows you to send push notifications to your phone from scripts or other applications using simple HTTP requests. It acts as a client for a free, open-source pub-sub service, enabling you to receive alerts and updates directly on your device.

Highlights
  • Send notifications via REST API
  • Subscribe to topics
  • Publish messages via HTTP
  • Integrates with Bash/PowerShell
  • Free and open source client
Features
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Send push notifications to your phone from any Bash or PowerShell script, or from your own app using PUT/POST requests, e.g. via curl on Linux or Invoke-WebRequest. ntfy is a client for https://ntfy.sh, a free and open source HTTP-based pub-sub service. You can subscribe to topics in this app, and then publish messages via a simple HTTP API. Uses: * Notify yourself when a long-running process is done * Ping your phone when a backup has failed * Alerts when someone logs into your server Example: $ curl -d "Your backup is done" ntfy.sh/mytopic Find more examples and usage instructions here: https://ntfy.sh/docs

Screenshots

Age Clock4 screens
ntfy2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ntfy at 4.8 against Age Clock's 3.1. ntfy also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 21 months) and review sentiment (78% vs 50%). Age Clock's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ntfy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ntfy has 452 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Age Clock's written reviews are positive against 78% of ntfy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Age Clock ships an update every 21 months, ntfy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Age Clock versus ntfy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAge Clockntfy
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (10 ratings)4.8 (452 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews78.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10452 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer昊天 郑Philipp Heckel

Customer experience

Age Clock

All ratings10 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative40.0%

ntfy

All ratings452 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews171 reviews
Positive78.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative15.8%

Bugs and requests

Age Clock

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

ntfy

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notifications not working on iOS
  • Broken click URLs in notifications
  • Compatibility issues with iOS notification summarizing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to change notification sounds
  • Support for Apple Watch
  • Customizable topic names/aliases
  • Improved iOS notification handling
  • All topics view and read/unread indicators

In-app purchases

None

Age Clock

No in-app purchases

None

ntfy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Age Clock free?
Age Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ntfy free?
ntfy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Age Clock or ntfy?
ntfy is rated higher. Age Clock averages 3.1 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while ntfy averages 4.8 from 452 ratings.
Do Age Clock or ntfy have ads?
Neither Age Clock nor ntfy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Age Clock or ntfy?
Age Clock ships an update every 21 months, and ntfy fortnightly. Most recently, Age Clock was updated on September 27, 2026 and ntfy on October 13, 2026.

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