Standby Clock vs Top Four
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Standby Clock
This app transforms your device into a full-screen digital clock with customizable fonts and colors. It offers a musical alarm, displays seconds on the dynamic island and lock screen, and can broadcast the time hourly. Enjoy background alarms with custom ringtones and various widget options.
- Full-screen digital time display
- Seconds on dynamic island and lock screen
- Customizable digital font styles and colors
- Musical alarm with custom ringtones
- Hourly chime and voice broadcasting
- Lock screen and Home Screen widgets
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Standby Clock, a beautiful music alarm clock that displays full-screen digital time. - Show seconds on dynamic island and lock screen - Provide a variety of digital font styles - Custom Clock Digital Color - Hourly Chime, Hourly voice broadcasting time - Display date, week, etc. - Support background alarm clock and custom music ringtones. - Support Home Screen widget, Lock Screen Widget, Standby mode.
Top Four
Personalize your phone's lock screen with customizable widgets. Add text, emojis, or symbols that can launch actions like calling contacts or controlling smart home devices. You can set up to four widgets for quick access to your favorite functions.
- Customizable text widgets
- Emoji and symbol integration
- Launch actions on tap
- Control HomeKit devices
- Open apps and contacts
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Top Four is an app to customize your lock screen widgets to be more personal to you. Choose text, emojis or symbols to add under the time. Tapping these widgets can also run an action like calling someone, toggling a HomeKit device or opening instagram (many more coming soon). You get 4 widgets to add to your lock screen (your top four). - Use text with custom fonts - Use emojis - Use one of the many symbols Have any questions or issues? email me@shabz.co
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Top Four at none against Standby Clock's shown. Top Four also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Standby Clock's advantage is ratings volume (712 vs 35) and review sentiment (61% vs 50%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Standby Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Top Four sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Top Four holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Standby Clock has 712 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Standby Clock's written reviews are positive against 50% of Top Four's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Standby Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, Top Four every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Standby Clock | Top Four |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (712 ratings) | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 712 — better | 35 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 云云 唐 | ShabzCo, LLC |
Customer experience
Standby Clock
Top Four
Bugs and requests
Standby Clock
Reported bugs
2 issues- Clock not displaying properly on home screen
- Alarm not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add horizontal time display option
- Include weather and date information
- Improve screen timeout settings
- Offer more customization options
Top Four
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Standby Clock
- Remove Ads$0.99
- All Clock Styles$0.99
- Pro Version$1.99
Top Four
- Top Four Pro$1.99
Questions
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