Sloooow vs heypster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sloooow
This app offers a unique perspective on time by presenting a clock that completes a full rotation in one year. It's designed as a conceptual art piece to encourage reflection on our relationship with time and yearly accomplishments.
- Year-long clock rotation
- Conceptual art piece
- Time relationship exploration
- Reflection on yearly accomplishments
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Earth takes 365 days to orbit our Sun. Sloooow™ dial takes one year to complete a rotation. Sloooow™ is a conceptual art piece designed to question our relationship with time and what one can accomplish in a year. Change your relationship with time. Take it Sloooow™
heypster
Discover and share high-quality GIFs for your conversations. This platform prioritizes user privacy by not storing search history or collecting data. Enjoy a free, ad-free experience across multiple Apple devices.
- High-quality GIFs
- Free to use
- Ad-free experience
- No search history storage
- No data collection
- Multi-device support
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heypster is a platform for high-quality GIFs, free of charge, ad-free, and respectful of user privacy: We do not keep any search history, and we do not collect any data. Our platform contains thousands of GIFs for your conversations. You can use our application on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, iMessage App and Apple Vision Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: heypster at every 2 months against Sloooow's every 38 months. heypster also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 60%) and device support (5 vs 2). Sloooow's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
Sloooow holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Sloooow's written reviews are positive against 83% of heypster's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sloooow ships an update every 38 months, heypster every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Sloooow | heypster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Terry Gillespie | Heypster |
Customer experience
Sloooow
heypster
In-app purchases
Sloooow
No in-app purchases
heypster
No in-app purchases
