Comparison

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks vs McClockface

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

Head to head
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.

About

McClockface

Enhance your device's display with a variety of customizable timepiece widgets. Choose from playful retro flip clock designs, progress indicators, and interactive stopwatch widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode.

Highlights
  • Customizable timepiece widgets
  • Retro flip clock display
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • StandBy mode widgets
  • Interactive stopwatch widgets
  • Alternate app icons
Features
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Add beautiful timepiece widgets to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode with McClockface. McClockface provides a collection of playful widget designs that provide the date, time, and other chronographic info, such as day and annual progress, at a glance, with options to customize colors and time zones widget-by-widget. The in-app timepiece displays a silky-smooth retro flip clock that makes a perfect display for your nightstand or whilst charging your device. There are currently 32 exclusive widget designs available (and counting) with different sizes to discover in the system widget gallery for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode. --- HOME SCREEN WIDGETS The McClockface widget lineup is now stronger than ever, with numerous vibrant, colorful designs to choose from, including stitched leather, knitted socks, sticky notes, neon signs, VHS cassette tapes, scratched metal, blueprints, metro maps, license plates, bunny memes, and so much more! --- LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Lock Screen widgets are perfect for quickly viewing info on the go. Simplified versions of some McClockface widgets are available on Lock Screen for both iPhone and iPad, including the default clock and the progress gauges. There’s also a weekday emoji widget that’s exclusive to Lock Screen. --- STANDBY MODE WIDGETS StandBy mode widgets are available on iPhone whilst charging your device. McClockface offers 20 elegant and customizable widget designs for StandBy mode. --- INTERACTIVE WIDGETS Stopwatch widgets are available for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode. These super handy widgets allow you to time an event without the need to open an app or even unlock your device. --- ALTERNATE APP ICONS With over 15 colorful app icons available, there’s something here to make everyone’s Home Screen shine. --- SOUNDS & HAPTICS Funny animal sounds and subtle haptic effects help bring the app to life. --- Some of the content discussed above and displayed in screenshots, specifically, all widgets, alternate app icons, custom fonts, and sound effects, require an in-app purchase. The free version of McClockface is free forever, and contains no ads: The free version gives you unlimited access to the in-app flip clock. McClockface Plus is required for the additional content mentioned above, which can be accessed by either an auto-renewing subscription or a one-time in-app purchase. --- Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. --- Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/lazycatapps/home/mcclockface/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks4 screens
McClockface4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: aClocks Premium Analog Clocks at 5.0 against McClockface's 4.5. aClocks Premium Analog Clocks also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). McClockface's advantage is ratings volume (357 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. aClocks Premium Analog Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and McClockface sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per 7 days. 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: McClockface has 357 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks ships an update fortnightly, McClockface every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks versus McClockface: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteraClocks Premium Analog ClocksMcClockface
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.5 (357 ratings)
Positive reviews—63.2% of reviews
Number of ratings1357 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomoyuki OkawaDavid Steppenbeck

Customer experience

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

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

McClockface

All ratings356 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral4.8%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral8.8%
Negative27.9%

Bugs and requests

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

McClockface

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Widget displays incorrect or outdated time unless app is opened
  • Widget freezes and stops updating time
  • Widget shows blank or black screen
  • Widget locked despite having Plus version subscription
  • Time accuracy issues (8-10 minutes behind real time)
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  • Widget not appearing in available widgets list
  • iOS 17 dark mode widget background appears blurry or white
  • Widget fails to update after device screen locks
  • Widgets removed after app update despite previous purchase
  • Incompatibility with Liquid Glass on iOS 26

Requested features

12 requests
  • Ability to remove date or annual progress percentage
  • Customizable date/time format options
  • Option to start weekdays with Monday instead of Sunday
  • Smaller quarter-size widget option
  • Transparent widget backgrounds
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  • Adjustable font sizes in app
  • Additional color palette options including OLED black
  • Ability to disable vibration on ticking sound
  • Brightness adjustment by swiping
  • More widget styles and clock faces
  • Expanded city list with clearer descriptions
  • Widget options matching in-app display capabilities

In-app purchases

1 purchases

aClocks Premium Analog Clocks

One-time1
  • Unlimited clocks$2.99
8 purchases

McClockface

Subscriptions3
  • McClockface Plus$1.007 Days
  • McClockface Plus$3.001 Month
  • McClockface Plus7 Days trial$12.001 Year
One-time5
  • Snack Sized Tip$0.99
  • Coffee Sized Tip$1.99
  • Lunch Sized Tip$4.99
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  • Movie Sized Tip$9.99
  • McClockface Plus (Lifetime)$25.00

Questions

Is aClocks Premium Analog Clocks free?
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is McClockface free?
McClockface is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, aClocks Premium Analog Clocks or McClockface?
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks is rated higher. aClocks Premium Analog Clocks averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while McClockface averages 4.5 from 357 ratings.
Do aClocks Premium Analog Clocks or McClockface have ads?
Neither aClocks Premium Analog Clocks nor McClockface shows ads.
Which is updated more often, aClocks Premium Analog Clocks or McClockface?
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks ships an update fortnightly, and McClockface every 3 weeks. Most recently, aClocks Premium Analog Clocks was updated on October 29, 2026 and McClockface on October 25, 2026.

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