Minimum Clock vs Spiffy Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minimum Clock
This app offers a minimalist digital and analog clock with customizable features. Adjust size, switch between 12/24 hour formats, and select background colors. It includes a time signal with numerous tones and allows for date format changes.
- Digital and analog clock display
- Adjustable clock size
- 12/24 hour format switching
- Customizable background colors
- Hourly time signal with 78 tones
- Date format customization
- Screen rotation
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A simple, no-frills digital and analog clock. The calm design is ideal for concentrating on study or work! Although simple, it has the minimum necessary functions. The clock face and analog clock can be moved with your finger. By pressing buttons such as "1X" and "2X", you can adjust the size of the letters. The analog clock can also be enlarged or reduced with two fingers. You can also switch between 12-hour and 24-hour displays. Touching a clock character or the analog clock switches to the setting mode. In setting mode, the date can be changed to various formats by touching it. In addition, a time signal can be sounded at 0 minutes of every hour, and there are 78 different tones to choose from. The screen can be rotated horizontally and vertically. The background color can be selected from 10 different colors. It is also possible to choose between a digital clock and an analog clock.
Spiffy Clock
Customize your device's time and date display with a variety of colors, gradients, and layout options. Tailor the appearance to your preference, including support for light and dark modes, and choose whether to show seconds, the day of the week, and more.
- 13 built-in background/text colors
- Color gradient options
- Customizable time and date display
- Portrait and landscape mode support
- Automatic light/dark mode color changes
- Optional status bar hiding
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Spiffy Clock puts the time and date front and center! It has 16 free colors that can be displayed as the background or as the text. An in-app purchase unlocks gradient backgrounds, gradient text, custom background and text colors, bi-color themes, gold, silver, and bronze, and rainbow coloring. Choose from numerous settings exactly how you want the time and date and day of the week displayed. When the color choice is for the background, the color will automatically change for light mode and dark mode, except when using custom colors. Works in both portrait and landscape mode. A night mode for use with dark mode allows you to display dark text in dark mode. Free color choices are: —Red —Orange —Yellow —Green —Mint —Cyan —Teal —Blue —Indigo —Purple —Pink —Brown —Black —Gray —White —System Paid color choices are: —Gradients —Gold —Silver —Bronze —Rainbow —Bi-color themes —Custom colors Time and date settings are: — Analog or digital clock —Show/hide seconds —Use 24 hour or 12 hour time with AM and PM —Show/hide date —Show/hide day of the week —Use numerical date You also can hide the status bar if you want. This app is a great complement to the desktop app Clock Suite. Similar colors are used, so there is a consistent look and feel across your devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spiffy Clock at 100% against Minimum Clock's 0%. Spiffy Clock also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). Minimum Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 14 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Minimum Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spiffy Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Spiffy Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Minimum Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spiffy Clock's.
Minimum Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, Spiffy Clock every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimum Clock | Spiffy Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) | 4.9 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mihoko Araki | Matthew Roberts |
Customer experience
Minimum Clock
Spiffy Clock
In-app purchases
Minimum Clock
- Minimum Clock with no ads$1.99
Spiffy Clock
- Spiffy Clock Pro$0.99
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