Art Clock vs CaptionStudio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Art Clock
Customize your device with a variety of digital and analog clock designs. Add matching widgets to your home screen and track calendars or countdowns. Unlock premium features with a one-time purchase.
- 24 clock face styles
- Full-screen display mode
- Home screen widgets
- Calendar and countdown timers
- Customizable colors and settings
- One-time PRO purchase
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Choose a clock face and tap to go full screen. Art Clock offers 24 clock faces, from classic flip clocks and dot matrix displays to retro LCD, minimalist, world clock and analog designs. Keep it on your desk or bedside table, or add a matching widget to your Home Screen. • CLOCK FACES Choose from a variety of styles, colors and number designs, with flip and dot animations in the app. • FULL-SCREEN DISPLAY Use your clock in portrait or landscape. Keep the screen awake and adjust the brightness. • HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Choose small, medium or large widgets. Tap a widget to open its clock face. Show seconds on widgets for Digits, Bedside and Minimal. • CALENDARS & COUNTDOWNS See the month at a glance, follow the year's progress in a daily grid, or set an event and count the days until it arrives. Customize the colors for Year and Countdown. • PERSONAL SETTINGS Adjust the time format, date and seconds on supported faces. Each face remembers your choices. Customize the text and background colors of the Solar face. Available for iPhone and iPad. Some clock faces and widgets require PRO, available as a one-time purchase with no subscription.
CaptionStudio
This app transforms audio and video into editable, translatable, and exportable timed captions. It also offers features for meeting notes, live floating captions, and conversation translation, all processed and stored locally on your device for enhanced privacy.
- Audio and video caption generation
- Caption translation and editing
- Meeting note transcription and organization
- Live floating captions for apps
- On-device conversation translation
- Multiple export formats (SRT, WebVTT, TXT, MP4)
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Turn audio and video into editable, translatable, export-ready timed captions—and keep meetings and conversations on your device. CaptionStudio brings media captions, meeting notes, floating captions, and conversation translation into one app. No account is required. Media, recordings, captions, and saved translation history are processed and stored on device by default. AUDIO & VIDEO CAPTIONS • Import MOV, MP4, M4V, M4A, MP3, WAV, or AAC files, or choose a video from Photos • Generate timed captions with native speech recognition • Play, seek, correct, split, merge, and add captions on a visual timeline • Translate captions and edit original, translated, or bilingual text • Customize fonts, size, colors, outline, background, and position • Export SRT, WebVTT, or TXT, or burn captions into an MP4 video MEETING NOTES • Record audio while creating a transcript • Organize the transcript into an overview, key points, decisions, and action items • Replay the recording and edit every section • Export meeting notes with the transcript as Markdown FLOATING CAPTIONS • Use iOS system broadcasting to transcribe audio from supported apps • Follow live captions in Picture in Picture • Show original, translated, or bilingual captions • Customize window ratio, text size, lines, alignment, colors, and background • DRM, broadcast, and audio-source restrictions may prevent some content from being transcribed CONVERSATION TRANSLATION • Speak a phrase, translate it, and hear it aloud • Swap source and target languages • Keep conversation history on device and delete it at any time PRIVACY FIRST • No account, ads, or developer-operated cloud upload • No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs • iOS manages required language resources; some models may need to be downloaded before first use • Recognition, translation, and language availability depend on the device, system version, and available models New users receive a 7-day full-feature trial on first launch. After the trial, choose a one-year access purchase that does not auto-renew or a lifetime unlock. Purchases and refunds are handled by Apple. Speech recognition, translation, and generated notes can be affected by accents, noise, overlapping speakers, and system models. Review important content against the original recording or video.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Art Clock at 17.0 against CaptionStudio's 26.0. On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Art Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CaptionStudio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Art Clock | CaptionStudio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 振山 董 | 夏骏 倪 |
Customer experience
Art Clock
CaptionStudio
In-app purchases
Art Clock
- Art Clock PRO$2.99
CaptionStudio
- 永久会员$1.99









