Art Clock vs Screen Time Control
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 stylish clock faces and interactive widgets. Display time full-screen with adjustable brightness or add a clock to your home screen. Includes calendar and countdown features.
- 25+ clock face styles
- Full-screen display with brightness control
- Home screen widgets (small, medium, large)
- Calendar and countdown timers
- Customizable colors and time formats
- Portrait and landscape orientation
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Choose a clock face and tap to go full screen. Art Clock offers 25 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.
Screen Time Control
This app helps you manage your screen time by setting daily limits on app usage. It provides visual feedback on your time spent and allows for flexible adjustments to your limits. All data is kept private on your device.
- Set daily app usage limits
- Visual representation of time spent
- Customizable reasons for limits
- Flexible exit options for limits
- Home screen widget for quick overview
- History tracking with heatmap
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Sundial is a screen time app built on one idea: a limit should feel like a sundial, not a stopwatch. You decide what your time is for, and the app quietly holds the line. LIMITS THAT ACTUALLY SHIELD Choose the apps or categories that eat your day and give each rule a daily allowance. When it runs out, iOS itself blocks the app — not a timer you can swipe away. One rule can hold any number of apps at once. THE BLOCK TELLS YOU WHY Every shield says what you finished ("30 min done for today.") and repeats the reason you set that rule — "For my health. Put the phone down." The exit stays yours as well: finish for today, take 15 more minutes, or lift that rule until midnight. Nothing is a dead end. TODAY, AT A GLANCE The home tab estimates how much of the day you have spent and turns it into a health score that drains as the hours do. The day's ink-wash landscape shifts with it, so the picture tells the story before the number does. HISTORY WORTH READING All history in one heatmap, plus a per-day breakdown of where the time went: which apps, which categories, and how they compare with your limits. THE HOME SCREEN WIDGET Today's figure and your most urgent rules, small or medium, right on the Home Screen. QUIET BY DESIGN Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no server, no analytics, no ads. Sundial reads only aggregate usage time through Apple's Screen Time framework — never what you do inside an app. Full policy: see the Privacy Policy link below. SUNDIAL PRO A single one-time purchase unlocks every theme, every background scene, and the Home Screen widget. No subscription. REQUIREMENTS Sundial needs Screen Time permission (Settings → Screen Time → Sundial) to read your totals and set limits. iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Art Clock at daily against Screen Time Control's every 10 days. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Screen Time Control sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Art Clock against 5.0 for Screen Time Control. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Art Clock ships an update daily, Screen Time Control every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Art Clock | Screen Time Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 振山 董 | 潇 左 |
Customer experience
Art Clock
Screen Time Control
In-app purchases
Art Clock
- Art Clock PRO$2.99
Screen Time Control
- Sundial Pro$6.99





