Speaking Clock vs Hero Picks Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speaking Clock
This application provides spoken time announcements, eliminating the need to constantly check your watch. It supports multiple languages, with more planned for future updates.
- Spoken time announcements
- Multiple language support
- Voice notifications
- Free to use
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Speaking Clock announces the time aloud, so you can stay aware of the time without checking your screen. Choose automatic announcements every 15, 30, or 60 minutes, and set quiet hours to keep things peaceful when you need them. FEATURES • Spoken time announcements in English, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Japanese • Customizable announcement intervals: 15, 30, or 60 minutes • Quiet hours to pause announcements during your chosen hours • 12-hour or 24-hour time formats for both the display and spoken announcements • Tap the analog clock to hear the current time • Analog and digital clock displays with changing backgrounds • Support for iPhone and iPad • No account required
Hero Picks Mobile
This app gamifies charity fundraising, allowing users to donate to causes, compete in prediction games, and track their impact. It offers a fun and social way to support foundations and personal fundraisers.
- Gamified charity fundraising
- Prediction games and sweepstakes
- Donate to fundraisers
- Track giving impact
- Support foundations and causes
- Low-fee fundraising tools
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Hero Picks turns charity fundraising into a game. Predict. Compete. Make an Impact. Support the causes you care about by donating to fundraisers, backing your favorite teams and raisers, and making predictions on real events — every dollar goes further when giving is this much fun. FEATURES • Discover live fundraisers: prediction games, sweepstakes-style draws, and classic fundraising campaigns • Donate in seconds — no account required • Make predictions on real events and climb the leaderboard • Back a raiser or team and watch your impact grow • Track your giving in My Donations, with shareable links for the fundraisers you support • Fundraiser organizers: raise for your foundation or personal cause with transparent, low-fee tools Hero Picks partners with foundations and individual fundraisers to make generosity competitive, social, and fun. Join a fundraiser today and make an impact.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hero Picks Mobile at 5.0 against Speaking Clock's 3.3. Hero Picks Mobile also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 31 months). Speaking Clock's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hero Picks Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speaking Clock has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Speaking Clock ships an update every 31 months, Hero Picks Mobile every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speaking Clock | Hero Picks Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thuc Nguyen | Justin Shaw |
Customer experience
Speaking Clock
Hero Picks Mobile
In-app purchases
Speaking Clock
No in-app purchases
Hero Picks Mobile
No in-app purchases
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