Comparison

Bed Time | Large Clock vs Clock

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Clock

This app helps you manage your time across devices. It offers features like a world clock for global time zones, customizable alarms with music options, a stopwatch for measuring durations, and timers for countdowns.

Highlights
  • World Clock for global time zones
  • Customizable Alarms with music
  • Stopwatch with lap recording
  • Multiple Timers with labels
  • Sleep schedule integration
Features
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Clock helps you manage your time on iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Check the current time anywhere with World Clock, make sure you wake up on time with Alarms, or keep track of passing time with Stopwatch and Timers. World Clock Check the current time in cities around the world. Or quickly see the time difference compared to your local time to make coordinating across time zones easy. Alarms Set regular alarms for any time of day. Choose to set them to repeat on specific days, give them a label and select the sound that plays with each. When your alarm goes off, you can choose to play from a selection of sounds, or pick a song from your Apple Music library. You can also adjust your wake up alarm and sleep schedule from Health right in the Clock app so you can wind down with a Sleep Focus and make sure you always wake up on time. Stopwatch Measure the duration of an event. You can see how much time has lapsed with either a digital or analog stopwatch face, and you can quickly record laps or splits throughout the time. Timers Count down seconds, minutes or hours. Or count down using multiple timers, and add labels and distinct sounds to each. You can also choose to set a timer that stops any music playing in the background—perfect for getting to sleep with your favorite playlist.

Screenshots

Bed Time | Large Clock4 screens
Clock3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bed Time | Large Clock at 78% against Clock's 14%. Bed Time | Large Clock also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months). Clock's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Clock is free to download; Bed Time | Large Clock costs $1.99 up front. Bed Time | Large Clock sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bed Time | Large Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clock has 20K ratings behind it against 369, 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 14% of Clock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bed Time | Large Clock ships an update every 4 months, Clock every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Bed Time | Large Clock versus Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBed Time | Large ClockClock
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (369 ratings) — better2.5 (20K ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better14.3% of reviews
Number of ratings36920K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn MackayApple

Customer experience

Bed Time | Large Clock

All ratings369 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%

Clock

All ratings19,552 ratings
Positive33.0%
Neutral6.8%
Negative60.2%
Written reviews4,265 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative77.1%

User reviews

Bed Time | Large Clock

From 369 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Large, easy-to-read numbers
  • 🎨 Great color options
  • 🔋 Doesn't kill battery
  • 💡 Simple and works well
  • 💰 One-time purchase, not subscription

Room to improve

  • 💡 Wish it could set bedtimes
  • 💡 Too bright even at minimum
  • 🐛 Shuts off during the night
  • 💡 Would like date/day larger
  • 💡 Not enough contrast

Clock

From 20K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Useful app
  • 👍 Good alarm clock
  • ✨ Interesting experience
  • 🕰️ Helpful for timekeeping

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Alarm issues
  • 🔇 Quiet/silent alarms
  • 🕰️ Lack of customization
  • 🤯 Frustrating bugs
  • 🕰️ Unreliable timer

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

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Alarms not going off or being silent
  • Alarms disappearing or turning off on their own
  • Timer issues like not showing countdown or not working properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to set alarms for specific dates
  • Option to silence all alarms for a period
  • More customization for alarm sounds and snooze
  • Separate volume control for alarms
  • Ability to group and manage alarms
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  • Display seconds in digital clock view

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bed Time | Large Clock

One-time2
  • Calming SoundsFree
  • Tip for Morning Coffee$2.99
None

Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bed Time | Large Clock free?
Bed Time | Large Clock costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Clock free?
Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bed Time | Large Clock or Clock?
Bed Time | Large Clock is rated higher. Bed Time | Large Clock averages 4.7 out of 5 from 369 ratings, while Clock averages 2.5 from 20K ratings.
Do Bed Time | Large Clock or Clock have ads?
Neither Bed Time | Large Clock nor Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bed Time | Large Clock or Clock?
Bed Time | Large Clock ships an update every 4 months, and Clock every 9 months. Most recently, Bed Time | Large Clock was updated on September 18, 2026 and Clock on September 24, 2026.

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