Clock Face vs Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clock Face
Enhance your device's lock screen and home screen with beautiful analog and digital clocks. Set music alarms, enjoy hourly chimes, and utilize desktop widgets for convenient timekeeping.
- Analog and digital clock display
- Lock screen and home screen widgets
- Multiple clock dial styles
- Music alarms
- Hourly chime and voice broadcast
- Desktop widgets
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Analog clock, contains multiple sets of analog clock dials. Your device needs such a beautiful clock - Display digital clock with seconds on lock screen, dynamic island, home Screen, standby mode screen. - Multiple sets of beautiful clock dials, switch by swiping left and right. - Provide a variety of music alarm clocks to wake you up on time。 - Hourly chime, voice broadcast current time. - Desktop Clock supports desktop widgets and lock screen widgets.
Now
This app verbally announces the current date and time, offering a simple solution for those who struggle with timekeeping or find complex calendar interfaces overwhelming. It features customizable read-out intervals and supports multiple languages.
- Verbal date and time announcement
- Automatic read-outs
- Digital and analog clock interfaces
- Multiple language support
- Customizable intervals
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Sometimes you just want to someone to tell you what day it is. Whether you are suffering from temporal disintegration, loses track of time or just get confused by calendar apps with overwhelming user interfaces - you are not alone. Press the text to get it read to you, or set it up for automatic read-outs on predefined intervals. Digital and/or analog clock interfaces. Available in multiple languages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clock Face at 61% against Now's 0%. Clock Face also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Now's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Clock Face sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Now sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Clock Face holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clock Face has 17K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Clock Face's written reviews are positive against 0% of Now's.
Clock Face ships an update fortnightly, Now every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clock Face | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (17K ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 化媚 席 | Aktiebolaget Kattbjorn |
Customer experience
Clock Face
Now
Bugs and requests
Clock Face
Reported bugs
3 issues- Alarm not working as expected
- Time not syncing correctly
- Widget not reflecting selected clock face
Requested features
5 requests- Add more clock face options
- Allow customization of clock faces
- Implement a 12-hour time format
- Enable setting the clock as lock screen
- Add option to display time on home screen widget
Now
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clock Face
- Pro Version$2.99
Now
- Now - Premium$1.99
