Comparison

Digital Clock vs Spendful

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Display time in seconds
  • Customizable clock skins
  • Alarm with music selection
  • Hourly voice broadcast
  • Countdown timer
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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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.

About

Spendful

Features
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Think back to last Tuesday. Which purchase do you still remember, and why did you make it? Spendful is a spending journal built around that question. It is not budgeting or accounting software, and it gives no financial advice. Each day you can write down up to three purchases, with an optional line about why. The amount is optional too, so a gift, a freebie or a refund fits as easily as a coffee. HOW A DAY GOES - Tap Add Entry and describe what you spent on - Add the amount if you like, and a few words on the reason - At three entries the day is full, and Spendful tells you so gently - If you allow notifications, a reminder arrives at 8 PM in your own time zone - Swiped an entry away by mistake? Tap Undo within five seconds - A streak badge on Today counts the days in a row you wrote LOOKING BACK History lists your past days, newest first, entry by entry with the reasons you wrote. There are no categories, no budgets, no charts and no totals to feel bad about. Amounts and dates follow your phone's region, so you see your own currency and your own date order. SPENDFUL IS FREE, WITH ONE AD A small banner sits at the bottom of the History tab and nowhere else. Today, Add Entry and Settings stay clear, so writing an entry is never interrupted. In the EEA and UK, where the law asks for consent, a form appears before the first ad loads, and Ad privacy options in Settings reopens it if you change your mind. On iPhone, the system's tracking prompt shows only when that form allows it. You can decline both and lose no feature. Your entries and reasons are saved in the app's own storage on your phone. Spendful has no account and no server of its own, so nothing you write is sent to us. A GOOD FIT IF People who tried budgeting apps and found them tiring, and who would rather spend a minute a day understanding their own habits. Available in English, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese, following your phone's language. Questions or feedback: contact+spendful@peppertree.so

Screenshots

Digital Clock4 screens
Spendful3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spendful at none against Digital Clock's 3. Digital Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Digital Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Spendful asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Digital Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, Spendful every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Digital Clock versus Spendful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigital ClockSpendful
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (69K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings69K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer俊杰 阮Peppertree

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

Spendful

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Digital Clock

One-time3
  • All clock styles$0.99
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Pro Version$2.99
None

Spendful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Digital Clock free?
Digital Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spendful free?
Spendful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Digital Clock or Spendful have ads?
Both Digital Clock and Spendful show ads.
Which is updated more often, Digital Clock or Spendful?
Digital Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, and Spendful every 4 months. Most recently, Digital Clock was updated on November 12, 2026 and Spendful on November 7, 2026.

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