Simple Clock vs Clockinator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Clock
A straightforward digital clock designed for focus and study sessions. It offers a simple interface with essential timekeeping functions and customizable themes to enhance your work environment.
- Basic time, date, week display
- Countdown timer
- Timing function
- Pomodoro timer
- Multiple themes and fonts
- Custom background image
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This clock is very easy to use, open it, put it on a good place, that's it. All you have to do is enjoy your study hours. Supports: # Basic time / date / week display # Countdown function # Timing function # Tomato timer # Multiple themes and fonts # Custom background image
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 in-app purchases: Clockinator at none against Simple Clock's 2. Clockinator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Simple Clock's advantage is ratings volume (297 vs 16) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price and device support 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. Simple Clock sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 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: Simple Clock has 297 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Simple Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Clockinator's.
Simple Clock ships an update fortnightly, Clockinator every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Clock | Clockinator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (297 ratings) | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 297 — 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 | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 422 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 乃君 黄 | Plaid, Inc. (OR) |
Customer experience
Simple Clock
Clockinator
Bugs and requests
Simple Clock
Reported bugs
11 issues- Cannot exit timer mode
- App unresponsive on some devices
- Quit working correctly, stuck on military time
- Cannot change clock design
- Not compatible with iPhone
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- Cannot restore purchases
- Timer only 15 minutes in free version
- App does not respond when operating from smartphone
- Need to uninstall to delete timer
- Custom image changes time number color to gray
- App drains battery quickly
Requested features
17 requests- Add alarm function
- Allow setting custom wallpaper and adjusting its size/position
- Add option to change font color with custom images
- Add a countdown feature
- Add PiP mode for iPad
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- Add option to keep night mode setting
- Add option to change date format
- Add option to change text color and position
- Add stopwatch functionality
- Add simple white noise sounds
- Add music to the app
- Add a daily total time recording function
- Add option to change AM/PM to 00:00 format
- Add option to disable second display
- Add vertical mode for phones
- Add analog/flip clock styles
- Allow restoring purchases
Clockinator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Simple Clock
- unlock all contents$0.99
- Support Developer$1.99
Clockinator
No in-app purchases
