McClockface vs Clack Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable timepiece widgets
- Retro flip clock display
- Home Screen widgets
- Lock Screen widgets
- StandBy mode widgets
- Interactive stopwatch widgets
- Alternate app icons
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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
Clack Board
This app simulates a split-flap display on your screen, allowing you to send messages that animate with realistic sound and physics. It can also display dynamic information like time, weather, sports scores, and data from various online sources.
- Realistic flap animation and sound
- Customizable messages with color
- Dynamic information channels (clock, weather, scores)
- Integration with Shortcuts and Siri
- Developer API for custom integrations
- Mac desktop wallpaper and screen saver
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Clack is a split-flap board for your screen. Every letter is a real flap on a drum. Send a message and 132 of them spin, clack and land, with the sound and the feel of the physical boards you see in airports, hotels and homes. Then the board goes back to whatever you have scheduled: the time in words, the weather, tonight's scores, your calendar, a quote, or anything with a URL. MESSAGES Type anything and watch it cascade onto the board. Add colour chips with {red}, {green} or {blue}, or a heart. Pin a message so it stays. Send from the app, from Shortcuts and Siri, or from any other device on your network. CHANNELS Switch on the ones you want and the board cycles through them: • Clock, in words or digits • Weather, sunrise and sunset, air quality and UV, the moon • Football and sports scores with your team's colours, and the next fixture • Formula 1, Transport for London departures • Calendar and Reminders • Mail: unread count and the latest sender • GitHub commits, YouTube subscribers, crypto, stocks, exchange rates, App Store ratings • Hacker News, On This Day, any RSS feed • Custom API: point it at any JSON URL and write a template • Mirror the physical board on your wall Almost everything works without an account or a key. ON THE MAC Set the board as your live desktop wallpaper, behind your icons, on every Space, animating as messages arrive. Or install it as a screen saver. There's a menu bar composer, and a one-tap way to hide every window and just look at the board. FOR DEVELOPERS AND TINKERERS Clack speaks the same local API as the physical boards, so Home Assistant, Zapier, n8n, a cron job or a curl command can post to it unchanged. Send plain text or an exact grid of character codes. There's a built-in guide, and a prompt you can hand to your AI so it knows how to talk to your board. THE DETAILS • Flagship (6 × 22) and Note (3 × 15) layouts • Real flap physics: gravity on the fall, a damped landing, per-column stereo clacks • Realism mode: hinge pins, flap thickness, motion trails, print offset • Any typeface installed on your device, or import your own • Optional symbol flaps: arrows, weather, a few objects • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Wall mode: the board alone on black, screen kept awake. Lean an iPad on a shelf. • Quiet hours, so the board sleeps when you do Made by OCTOBER.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: McClockface at 4.5 against Clack Board's 2.0. McClockface also leads on ratings volume (357 vs 1). Clack Board's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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. McClockface sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per 7 days. Clack Board asks for nothing beyond the download.
McClockface holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: McClockface has 357 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
McClockface ships an update every 3 weeks, Clack Board every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | McClockface | Clack Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (357 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 357 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Steppenbeck | James Frewin |
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
Clack Board
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
McClockface
- McClockface Plus$1.007 Days
- McClockface Plus$3.001 Month
- McClockface Plus7 Days trial$12.001 Year
- 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
Clack Board
No in-app purchases
Questions
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