Comparison

McClockface vs Mood Board Maker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

McClockface

Enhance your device's display with a variety of customizable timepiece widgets. Choose from playful retro flip clock designs, progress indicators, and interactive stopwatch widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode.

Highlights
  • Customizable timepiece widgets
  • Retro flip clock display
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • StandBy mode widgets
  • Interactive stopwatch widgets
  • Alternate app icons
Features
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Add beautiful timepiece widgets to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode with McClockface. McClockface provides a collection of playful widget designs that provide the date, time, and other chronographic info, such as day and annual progress, at a glance, with options to customize colors and time zones widget-by-widget. The in-app timepiece displays a silky-smooth retro flip clock that makes a perfect display for your nightstand or whilst charging your device. There are currently 32 exclusive widget designs available (and counting) with different sizes to discover in the system widget gallery for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode. --- HOME SCREEN WIDGETS The McClockface widget lineup is now stronger than ever, with numerous vibrant, colorful designs to choose from, including stitched leather, knitted socks, sticky notes, neon signs, VHS cassette tapes, scratched metal, blueprints, metro maps, license plates, bunny memes, and so much more! --- LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Lock Screen widgets are perfect for quickly viewing info on the go. Simplified versions of some McClockface widgets are available on Lock Screen for both iPhone and iPad, including the default clock and the progress gauges. There’s also a weekday emoji widget that’s exclusive to Lock Screen. --- STANDBY MODE WIDGETS StandBy mode widgets are available on iPhone whilst charging your device. McClockface offers 20 elegant and customizable widget designs for StandBy mode. --- INTERACTIVE WIDGETS Stopwatch widgets are available for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode. These super handy widgets allow you to time an event without the need to open an app or even unlock your device. --- ALTERNATE APP ICONS With over 15 colorful app icons available, there’s something here to make everyone’s Home Screen shine. --- SOUNDS & HAPTICS Funny animal sounds and subtle haptic effects help bring the app to life. --- Some of the content discussed above and displayed in screenshots, specifically, all widgets, alternate app icons, custom fonts, and sound effects, require an in-app purchase. The free version of McClockface is free forever, and contains no ads: The free version gives you unlimited access to the in-app flip clock. McClockface Plus is required for the additional content mentioned above, which can be accessed by either an auto-renewing subscription or a one-time in-app purchase. --- Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. --- Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/lazycatapps/home/mcclockface/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Mood Board Maker

Create personalized vision boards with customizable layouts, backgrounds, and photos. Organize goals with to-do lists and stay motivated with affirmations. Make your dreams a reality by visually planning your aspirations.

Highlights
  • Customizable layouts
  • Personalized style options
  • To-do lists for goals
  • Affirmations for motivation
  • Photo and background library
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COOL LAYOUTS Pick your favorite layout to make a vision board that's all about you YOUR PERSONAL STYLE Make it yours with backgrounds, photos, texts and fonts. Go crazy with customization! Huge photos and backgrounds collection by Unsplash and Freepik will help you create an inspirational vision board in a few minutes. Add your own photos to give it a super personal touch TO DO LISTS Stay organized by adding to-do lists for each goal. Break things down so it's easy to get where you want to be AFFIRMATIONS Add affirmations to keep you feeling pumped up and ready to achieve your dreams Start making your dreams a reality. Get Visus now and enjoy creating your own vision board. Let's make those dreams come true together! Have any questions? Please contact us at support@happus.co Privacy Policy: https://happus.co/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://happus.co/terms-of-service

Screenshots

McClockface4 screens
Mood Board Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: McClockface at none against Mood Board Maker's shown. Mood Board Maker's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. McClockface sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per 7 days and Mood Board Maker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mood Board Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 357 and 205 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of McClockface's written reviews are positive against 85% of Mood Board Maker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

McClockface ships an update every 3 weeks, Mood Board Maker monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
McClockface versus Mood Board Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMcClockfaceMood Board Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (357 ratings)4.7 (205 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews85.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings357 — better205
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB147 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid SteppenbeckHAPPUS LLC

Customer experience

McClockface

All ratings356 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral4.8%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral8.8%
Negative27.9%

Mood Board Maker

All ratings205 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral0.5%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive85.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative8.3%

User reviews

McClockface

From 357 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Beautiful and visually stunning widget designs
  • 👍 Highly customizable clock faces and widgets
  • 🌈 Wide variety of widget styles to choose from
  • ⚡ Smooth animations and polished UI
  • 💬 Responsive and communicative developer support

Room to improve

  • 💰 Requires paid subscription for widget access
  • 🔄 Widget time display doesn't update properly
  • 🐛 Widgets freeze or show incorrect time
  • 🔒 Misleading about free widget availability
  • 📍 Limited city options in location list

Mood Board Maker

From 205 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 🎨 Beautiful design and cute templates
  • 💡 Innovative private vision board concept
  • 🖼️ Good selection of stock images from Unsplash
  • ✨ Helpful for goal visualization and motivation

Room to improve

  • ❌ Limited customization options (e.g., no photo cropping)
  • 🐛 App frequently crashes
  • 😞 Poor customer support (no response to emails)
  • 🚫 Difficult cancellation process
  • 📝 Chinese text input issues and bugs

Bugs and requests

McClockface

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Widget displays incorrect or outdated time unless app is opened
  • Widget freezes and stops updating time
  • Widget shows blank or black screen
  • Widget locked despite having Plus version subscription
  • Time accuracy issues (8-10 minutes behind real time)
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  • Widget not appearing in available widgets list
  • iOS 17 dark mode widget background appears blurry or white
  • Widget fails to update after device screen locks
  • Widgets removed after app update despite previous purchase
  • Incompatibility with Liquid Glass on iOS 26

Requested features

12 requests
  • Ability to remove date or annual progress percentage
  • Customizable date/time format options
  • Option to start weekdays with Monday instead of Sunday
  • Smaller quarter-size widget option
  • Transparent widget backgrounds
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  • Adjustable font sizes in app
  • Additional color palette options including OLED black
  • Ability to disable vibration on ticking sound
  • Brightness adjustment by swiping
  • More widget styles and clock faces
  • Expanded city list with clearer descriptions
  • Widget options matching in-app display capabilities

Mood Board Maker

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Chinese text input displays pinyin characters alongside Chinese characters
  • Pinyin characters delete Chinese characters when removed
  • Text input issues with Chinese IME (Input Method Editor)
  • No account/login system functionality
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  • Cloud sync not working

Requested features

7 requests
  • Photo cropping and advanced image editing
  • Cloud synchronization across devices
  • Font size customization
  • Traditional Chinese language support
  • Account creation and login system
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  • More diverse affirmation examples
  • Better stock image variety

In-app purchases

8 purchases

McClockface

Subscriptions3
  • McClockface Plus$1.007 Days
  • McClockface Plus$3.001 Month
  • McClockface Plus7 Days trial$12.001 Year
One-time5
  • Snack Sized Tip$0.99
  • Coffee Sized Tip$1.99
  • Lunch Sized Tip$4.99
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  • Movie Sized Tip$9.99
  • McClockface Plus (Lifetime)$25.00
9 purchases

Mood Board Maker

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Weekly2 variants$3.997 Days
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
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  • Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Monthly$8.991 Month
  • Annual, 3 days free3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Annual3 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$24.99
  • Lifetime2 variants$49.99

Questions

Is McClockface free?
McClockface is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mood Board Maker free?
Mood Board Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, McClockface or Mood Board Maker?
Mood Board Maker is rated higher. McClockface averages 4.5 out of 5 from 357 ratings, while Mood Board Maker averages 4.7 from 205 ratings.
Do McClockface or Mood Board Maker have ads?
Mood Board Maker shows ads; McClockface does not.
Which is updated more often, McClockface or Mood Board Maker?
McClockface ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mood Board Maker monthly. Most recently, McClockface was updated on October 25, 2026 and Mood Board Maker on October 21, 2026.

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