Clock Face vs Clockinator
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.
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 review sentiment: Clockinator at 100% against Clock Face's 61%. Clockinator also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Clock Face's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 16) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, 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. Clock Face sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clockinator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clockinator holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clock Face has 17K ratings behind it against 16, 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 100% of Clockinator's.
Clock Face ships an update fortnightly, Clockinator every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clock Face | Clockinator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (17K ratings) | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17K — 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 | 52 MB | 422 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 化媚 席 | Plaid, Inc. (OR) |
Customer experience
Clock Face
Clockinator
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
Clockinator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clock Face
- Pro Version$2.99
Clockinator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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