Digital Clock vs Clockinator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digital Clock
This app transforms your device into a stylish LED bedside clock with customizable skins and dynamic time displays. It offers alarm functionality, voice time broadcasts, and a countdown timer, perfect for your desk or nightstand.
- Display time in seconds
- Customizable clock skins
- Alarm with music selection
- Hourly voice broadcast
- Countdown timer
- Home and lock screen widgets
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Transform your desk with a minimalist LED digital clock, standby display, and focus timer — designed for Dynamic Island, Lock Screen, and Home Screen widgets. - Live Second Precision: Real-time clock display with seconds across Dynamic Island, Standby Screen, Lock Screen, and Home Screen widgets. - Custom Clock Skins: Eye-catching LED digital clock designs, themes, and customizable bedside displays. - Flexible Display: Toggle between 12-hour/24-hour time formats and easily hide week and date displays. - Smart Alarms & Chimes: Custom alarm sounds, music library, and hourly voice time broadcasts. - Pomodoro Focus Timer: Stay focused on work and study with customizable break intervals. - Stopwatch & Countdown Timer: High-precision timer for workouts, cooking, productivity, and study. - Target Date & Event Countdown: Track important milestones, project deadlines, holidays, and event countdowns.
Clockinator
Transform your time-telling experience with a visually engaging and customizable clock. Choose from numerous faces and color palettes to make seeing the time a spectacle. Full-screen numbers and an optional seconds crawler ensure clarity at a glance.
- Multiple clock faces
- Endless color combinations
- Full-screen number display
- Optional seconds crawler
- Intuitive swipe gestures
- Easy settings access
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Seeing the time shouldn’t be boring. Make it a spectacle with Clockinator! Multiple faces and seemingly endless color combinations always make the time entertaining. Full-screen numbers are the main characters, with an optional seconds crawler that marches across the bottom of the screen. It's always easy at a glance to tell what time it is and where you are in this minute. Swipe right and left to change the style and colors of Clockinator's face. Swipe up and down to show or hide the seconds. Tap once to show more settings and help. Everything is at your fingertips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clockinator at none against Digital Clock's 3. Clockinator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Digital Clock's advantage is ratings volume (69K vs 16) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, device support 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
Both are free to download. Digital Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Clockinator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clockinator holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digital Clock has 69K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Digital Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Clockinator's.
Digital Clock ships an update fortnightly, Clockinator every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digital Clock | Clockinator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (69K ratings) | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 69K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 422 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊杰 阮 | Plaid, Inc. (OR) |
Customer experience
Digital Clock
Clockinator
Bugs and requests
Digital Clock
Reported bugs
6 issues- Alarm doesn't sound if device is in silent mode
- Alarm doesn't work
- Time display is wrong
- Widget doesn't show correct time
- App crashes frequently
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- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
9 requests- Dark mode option
- More skins please ie: pixie (tube); RGB sliders
- Ability to input own music for alarm
- Vertical display
- Battery percentage and reminder
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- Ability to change alarm sounds
- Portrait mode
- Bigger clock display
- Transparent widget
Clockinator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Digital Clock
- All clock styles$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Pro Version$2.99
Clockinator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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