Comparison

Flip Clock Pro vs Spiffy Clock

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

Head to head
About

Flip Clock Pro

A minimalist desktop digital clock offering a variety of customization options. It displays time with seconds, includes a smart alarm, timer, stopwatch, and Pomodoro timer. The app also supports white noise and personalized signatures.

Highlights
  • Display time with seconds
  • Smart alarm clock
  • Timer and stopwatch
  • Pomodoro Technique timer
  • Multiple clock themes
  • Background white noise playback
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Flip Clock Pro is a minimalist desktop digital clock. Desktop clock widget supports displaying seconds and calendar. - Show time in seconds on Dynamic island - Full screen display time and date - 12 and 24 hour modes. - Smart alarm clock, can automatically adjust the volume. - Support multiple clock themes. - Provide timer and stopwatch, countdown. - The Pomodoro Technique helps you focus on work and study. - Support playing background white noise. - Show time seconds in Today widget. - Provide home screen and lock screen clock widget display with seconds. - Provide calendar and clock widget display. - Support to display personalized signature on the lock screen - Hourly chime, hourly voice timekeeping. - You can set the app to automatically launch when charging, as a screensaver.

About

Spiffy Clock

Customize your device's time and date display with a variety of colors, gradients, and layout options. Tailor the appearance to your preference, including support for light and dark modes, and choose whether to show seconds, the day of the week, and more.

Highlights
  • 13 built-in background/text colors
  • Color gradient options
  • Customizable time and date display
  • Portrait and landscape mode support
  • Automatic light/dark mode color changes
  • Optional status bar hiding
Features
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Spiffy Clock puts the time and date front and center! It has 16 free colors that can be displayed as the background or as the text. An in-app purchase unlocks gradient backgrounds, gradient text, custom background and text colors, bi-color themes, gold, silver, and bronze, and rainbow coloring. Choose from numerous settings exactly how you want the time and date and day of the week displayed. When the color choice is for the background, the color will automatically change for light mode and dark mode, except when using custom colors. Works in both portrait and landscape mode. A night mode for use with dark mode allows you to display dark text in dark mode. Free color choices are: —Red —Orange —Yellow —Green —Mint —Cyan —Teal —Blue —Indigo —Purple —Pink —Brown —Black —Gray —White —System Paid color choices are: —Gradients —Gold —Silver —Bronze —Rainbow —Bi-color themes —Custom colors Time and date settings are: — Analog or digital clock —Show/hide seconds —Use 24 hour or 12 hour time with AM and PM —Show/hide date —Show/hide day of the week —Use numerical date You also can hide the status bar if you want. This app is a great complement to the desktop app Clock Suite. Similar colors are used, so there is a consistent look and feel across your devices.

Screenshots

Flip Clock Pro4 screens
Spiffy Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spiffy Clock at Free against Flip Clock Pro's $2.99. Spiffy Clock also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Flip Clock Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). On ads 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

Spiffy Clock is free to download; Flip Clock Pro costs $2.99 up front. Spiffy Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Flip Clock Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spiffy Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flip Clock Pro has 1.5K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Flip Clock Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spiffy Clock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flip Clock Pro ships an update every 2 months, Spiffy Clock every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Flip Clock Pro versus Spiffy Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlip Clock ProSpiffy Clock
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1.5K ratings)4.9 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer翠玲 施Matthew Roberts

Customer experience

Flip Clock Pro

All ratings1,496 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews305 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral8.9%
Negative17.0%

Spiffy Clock

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Flip Clock Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Seconds digit freezing
  • Widget not showing 12-hour time format
  • Brightness issues when leaving app open
  • Inconsistent sound and alarm problems

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more alarm sound options
  • Allow customization of alarm sound from music library
  • Implement a snooze function
  • Add ability to set multiple alarm times
  • Provide more color and font customization options
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  • Improve landscape mode support

Spiffy Clock

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Flip Clock Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Spiffy Clock

One-time1
  • Spiffy Clock Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Flip Clock Pro free?
Flip Clock Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spiffy Clock free?
Spiffy Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flip Clock Pro or Spiffy Clock?
Spiffy Clock is rated higher. Flip Clock Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Spiffy Clock averages 4.9 from 12 ratings.
Do Flip Clock Pro or Spiffy Clock have ads?
Neither Flip Clock Pro nor Spiffy Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flip Clock Pro or Spiffy Clock?
Flip Clock Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Spiffy Clock every 14 months. Most recently, Flip Clock Pro was updated on September 25, 2026 and Spiffy Clock on August 31, 2026.

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