Clock vs Spiffy Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clock
This app displays the time with a minimalistic design, utilizing the full screen. It offers extensive customization for time format, including 12/24 hour, leading zeros, and seconds precision. Screen brightness can be adjusted by swiping, and screen dimming can be prevented.
- Full-screen display
- Customizable time format (12/24hr, seconds)
- Adjustable screen brightness
- Prevent screen dimming
- Minimalistic design
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A simple app that displays the time beautifully and in the most minimalistic way possible while using the whole size of your screen. The time format is completely customizable! You can choose to: – use the 24 hours or 12 hours format with am/pm – show a leading zero in front of single-digit hours – show seconds or only hours and minutes – even display tenths, hundredths and thousandths of a second! You can also optionally adjust the brightness of the clock by swiping on the screen and configure whether you want the app to prevent your screen from automatically turning off!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spiffy Clock at 4.9 against Clock's 4.4. Spiffy Clock also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Clock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (152 vs 12). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Spiffy Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spiffy Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clock has 152 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spiffy Clock's.
Clock ships an update every 12 months, Spiffy Clock every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clock | Spiffy Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (152 ratings) | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 152 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Max-Joseph Krempl | Matthew Roberts |
Customer experience
Clock
Spiffy Clock
Bugs and requests
Clock
Reported bugs
12 issues- 12/24 hour format setting not saving properly
- Widget fails to display current time
- Siri cannot distinguish between this app and Apple's Clock
- App not appearing in Shortcuts app list
- Screen burn-in after extended use
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- Font weight changing unexpectedly during use
- AM/PM indicator appearing without user action
- App freezing and blocking phone access
- Camera turning on automatically after download
- Excessive battery drain on some devices
- Display remaining bright when dimming is enabled
- Wrong time display with no way to set correct time
Requested features
12 requests- Date display option (most frequently requested)
- Bold/thicker font option for better readability
- Color customization (especially red for night vision preservation)
- Widget support with live time display
- Battery percentage indicator
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- Timer functionality
- Donation/tip button for supporting developer
- Dark red color option to reduce room lighting impact
- AM/PM positioning adjustment (above, below, or between digits)
- Screen burn-in prevention feature
- Settings toggle visibility improvement
- Ability to replace system status bar clock
Spiffy Clock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clock
No in-app purchases
Spiffy Clock
- Spiffy Clock Pro$0.99









