Comparison

WatchTheTime vs Terminal Tock

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

Head to head
About

WatchTheTime

Customize your Apple Watch with a variety of digital time and date complications. Personalize colors, formats, and even offsets to create a unique watch face. Supports multiple complications and all Apple Watch styles.

Highlights
  • Digital time and date complications
  • AM/PM toggle
  • Color customization
  • Custom date formats
  • Multiple complications
  • 24-hour format support
  • Time/date offset
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This app allows you to: - Choose a date and/or digital time complication for your Apple Watch - Enable AM/PM on digital time complication - Change the color (where available) for both the date and the digital time Apple Watch complications - Change the date format from default options, or specify a custom format - Use multiple Apple Watch complications at the same time - Support for all complication styles, including Apple Watch Series 4 complications - 24-time format - Support for your Apple Watch's language - Custom time/date offset by hour and minute Requires: - Compatible Apple Watch running watchOS 4+ - Compatible iPhone paired to Apple Watch

About

Terminal Tock

Experience the satisfying mechanical flip of a split-flap clock on your iPhone and iPad. This app offers realistic physics-driven animations, world clocks with weather, and customizable home screen widgets for a delightful time-checking experience.

Highlights
  • Realistic split-flap animation with physics
  • World clocks with live weather
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable time display
  • Privacy-first design
  • Dark, premium aesthetic
Features
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Remember those gorgeous clocks at the airport? The ones with the mechanical digits that flip down with a satisfying clack? Yeah, we turned that into an app. You're welcome. Meet Tock — a split-flap clock for your iPhone and iPad that's so beautiful you'll check the time just to watch it move. The real deal. Every digit flips with physics-driven animation — gravity pull, overshoot, bounce, settle. We didn't just animate a number change. We simulated the whole mechanical dance. The colon pulses. The digits cascade on launch. World clocks that actually look good. Add cities from anywhere on Earth and watch their times tick in perfect split-flap sync. New York, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Auckland — wherever your people are, Tock keeps you connected without looking like a spreadsheet. Weather, because why not. Each city shows current temperature and conditions with minimal weather icons. Powered by Open-Meteo — no API key, no account, no nonsense. It just works. Home screen widgets. Small widget shows the time. Medium widget shows the time with seconds, city name, and AM/PM. Both look like tiny split-flap boards on your home screen. Finally, a widget that sparks joy. Customize everything. Toggle seconds on or off. Switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius. Add any city, remove any city. It's your clock — we just made it pretty. The highlights: Stunning split-flap animation with real physics Power-on cascade effect on launch 12-hour format with AM/PM Multiple world clocks with live weather Home screen widgets (small & medium) Add any city and timezone Fahrenheit or Celsius toggle Seconds display toggle Dark, premium aesthetic No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Privacy-first. Always. Tock runs entirely on your device. The only network requests are to Open-Meteo's free weather API — no accounts, no tracking, no analytics. We don't collect your data because we genuinely don't care what time zone you're stalking. Stop checking the time on a boring digital clock. Let Tock make it an experience.

Screenshots

WatchTheTime1 screens
Terminal Tock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WatchTheTime at 3.6 against Terminal Tock's 1.0. WatchTheTime also leads on ratings volume (39 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Terminal Tock's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WatchTheTime holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WatchTheTime has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
WatchTheTime versus Terminal Tock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatchTheTimeTerminal Tock
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (39 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam DamaDARREN,PAUL BRELESKY

In-app purchases

None

WatchTheTime

No in-app purchases

None

Terminal Tock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WatchTheTime free?
WatchTheTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Terminal Tock free?
Terminal Tock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WatchTheTime or Terminal Tock?
WatchTheTime is rated higher. WatchTheTime averages 3.6 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Terminal Tock averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do WatchTheTime or Terminal Tock have ads?
WatchTheTime shows ads; Terminal Tock does not.

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