Floating Clock vs TimeGlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Floating Clock
This app provides a versatile floating window for displaying a digital clock with millisecond precision and customizable text. It's ideal for video recording, offering teleprompter functionality and dynamic island integration.
- Floating digital clock
- Millisecond display
- Dynamic island time display
- Lock screen timer
- Teleprompter functionality
- Customizable text windows
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Floating Clock, a small window floating on the desktop, displays a digital clock, displays any text information, and helps you record short videos. - Display time in seconds on dynamic island and lock screen. - Desktop digital clock, providing millisecond display. - Support 12 hours, 24 hours switch. - Floating teleprompter, small text and script windows for easy video recording. Contact us: cuiling_shi@163.com
TimeGlow
This app helps you stay focused with visual timers for single tasks or multi-step routines. It uses color transitions and status cues to guide your focus, breaks, and transitions. An AI feature can even generate practical focus sequences based on your goals and available time.
- Focus Sessions for single activities
- Focus Sequences for multi-step routines
- AI-generated Focus Sequences
- Timed breaks between activities
- Background notifications
- Activity history and focus insights
- Categorization for various activities
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TimeGlow is a visual focus timer designed to help you stay focused without constantly watching the clock. Create a simple Focus Session for one task, or build a Focus Sequence with multiple timed steps and breaks. TimeGlow uses clear color transitions and status cues to help you know when to focus, wrap up, take a break, and move on. Need help getting started? Use AI to turn a goal and an available amount of time into a practical Focus Sequence. For example, tell TimeGlow you have 45 minutes for a workout and it can organize that time into warm-up, cardio, strength, and recovery steps. TimeGlow includes: • Focus Sessions for single activities • Focus Sequences for multi-step routines • AI-generated Focus Sequences • Optional timed breaks between activities • Notifications to keep sessions moving when your device is locked or TimeGlow is in the background • Activity history and focus insights • Categories for Fitness, Work, Study, and more • Simple visual transitions that reduce the need to watch a countdown clock • TimeGlow Pro for unlimited AI sequences, expanded insights, and an ad-free experience Whether you’re exercising, studying, working, or simply trying to make better use of a block of time, TimeGlow helps turn your intention into a clear plan and keeps you moving through it. Plan less. Focus more. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TimeGlow at 5.0 against Floating Clock's 4.2. TimeGlow also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). Floating Clock's advantage is ratings volume (91 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Floating Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TimeGlow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TimeGlow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Floating Clock has 91 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Floating Clock ships an update every 3 months, TimeGlow every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Floating Clock | TimeGlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (91 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 书敏 贾 | DozenRed LLC |
Customer experience
Floating Clock
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In-app purchases
Floating Clock
- Professional Version$0.99
TimeGlow
- TimeGlow Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- TimeGlow Pro Annual$7.991 Year
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