Bed Time | Large Clock vs Clock Watching
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bed Time | Large Clock
This app offers a large, customizable clock designed for bedside or desk use. It features adjustable brightness, color options, and display settings like date and seconds. Calming sounds are included to aid sleep, and the interface is simple with gesture controls.
- Large, readable time display
- Adjustable brightness and color
- Dark and light modes
- Optional date, seconds, and 12/24 hour format
- Calming sleep sounds (rain, waves, fire)
- Gesture-based controls
- Portrait and landscape orientation support
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A simple and elegant clock with a focus on displaying the time in the most pleasing and readable way possible. There's a dark mode, with the ability to lower the brightness so that the time is only just readable, ideal for use at night as a bedside clock. During the day, the light mode with full and vibrant colours can be used to keep track of the time while you work. As well as customising the clock with a selection of colours and brightness levels, you can choose to display or hide the date, seconds, use the 12 or 24 hour clock, and of course toggle between night and day mode. The layout of the clock intelligently adjusts to make the best use of the screen whether your device is in portrait or landscape. Bed Time also includes a set of calming sounds - such as rain, ocean waves, a burning fire, etc - to help you drift off to sleep. Bed Time is designed with simplicity in mind - just tap the screen and a small selection of controls will be displayed - or alternatively you can use simple gestures: • Swipe left and right to cycle through a selection of colours • Swipe up and down to adjust the brightness • Pinch and zoom to show or hide the date and the seconds • Long press to switch between 4 different styles • Dark mode with a coloured background • Dark mode with a black background • Light mode with coloured background • Light mode with a white background • Elegant in both portrait and landscape The Bed Time app is designed to be used in conjunction with a stand on your bedside table or desk.
Clock Watching
This app displays the current time using a four-digit digital format for hours and minutes. An optional in-app purchase adds animated seconds with pendulums that fall or explode as each minute completes.
- Four-digit time display
- Hour and minute tracking
- Animated seconds (in-app purchase)
- Pendulum animation
- Minute completion effects
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It is a digital clock that shows the time, using four digits to display both hours and minutes. You can watch a multitude of minutes and hours progress through time. Add animated seconds to your flanks with an In-App Purchase. Pendulums will move into place with each second until the minute is complete. The pink pendulums will then fall or explode offscreen to allow the sequence to repeat itself. Minute after minute.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Clock Watching at Free against Bed Time | Large Clock's $1.99. Clock Watching also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Bed Time | Large Clock's advantage is ratings volume (369 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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
Clock Watching is free to download; Bed Time | Large Clock costs $1.99 up front. Bed Time | Large Clock sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Clock Watching sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Clock Watching holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bed Time | Large Clock has 369 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Bed Time | Large Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Clock Watching's.
Bed Time | Large Clock ships an update every 4 months, Clock Watching every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bed Time | Large Clock | Clock Watching |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (369 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 369 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Mackay | David Thorpe |
Customer experience
Bed Time | Large Clock
Clock Watching
Bugs and requests
Bed Time | Large Clock
Reported bugs
4 issues- Brightness too high after update
- App shuts off during the night
- Clock lags slightly behind system clock
- Unable to use after payment (Scam)
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to set bedtimes
- Display date/day larger
- Better contrast options (white on black, yellow on black)
- Notification on screen for alarm activation
- Ability to lock phone with clock face displayed
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- Option to hide date display
- Adjust brightness/luminosity more effectively
Clock Watching
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bed Time | Large Clock
- Calming SoundsFree
- Tip for Morning Coffee$2.99
Clock Watching
- Add Animated Seconds$1.99
Questions
Is Bed Time | Large Clock free?
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