Digital Clock vs Top Clock
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.
Top Clock
This app provides a floating clock and timer that stays visible above all other applications. It's useful for tasks like online shopping, studying with Pomodoro timers, or cooking with real-time countdowns.
- Floating clock and timer
- Millisecond timing
- Picture-in-picture window
- Adjustable size and position
- Multiple timer types (stopwatch, countdown, Pomodoro)
- Customizable colors
- One-click operation
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Top Clock is a small window floating clock that displays time and countdown on the desktop and any app. use: 1. Online shopping assistant, a small window on the shopping app displays a millisecond clock or an hourly countdown. 2. For online learning, when watching a video, the Pomodoro is displayed floating in a small window for more efficient learning. 3. Cooking timer, while using other software, a small window can view the countdown in real time. Features: 1. Millisecond timing, online shopping is one step faster. 2. A small picture-in-picture window, adjustable in size and position, can be used simultaneously with other software. 3. Various timers, including clock, stopwatch, countdown, interval timer and Pomodoro. 4. Any combination of colors. 5. The operation is simple, just one click.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Top Clock at none against Digital Clock's 3. Digital Clock's advantage is ratings volume (69K vs 149) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Top Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Digital Clock against 4.6 for Top Clock. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digital Clock has 69K ratings behind it against 149, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Digital Clock's written reviews are positive against 61% of Top Clock's.
Digital Clock ships an update fortnightly, Top Clock every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digital Clock | Top Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (69K ratings) | 4.6 (149 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews — better | 61.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 69K — better | 149 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊杰 阮 | Shenzhen Gude Aipu Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Digital Clock
Top Clock
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
Top Clock
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
Top Clock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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