X Clock vs TickClock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
X Clock
This app offers a minimalist clock display with customizable themes and widgets. It includes features like timers, reminders, and a focus clock to enhance productivity during study or work sessions. Personalize your device with its transparent widget effects.
- 14 colorful themes
- Rich widgets with transparent effects
- Countdown and reminder functionality
- Focus clock for productivity
- Multiple widget support
- New clock styles and widgets
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X Clock is a lightweight clock application that displays the time in a concise way and accompanies your study, work and study. - 14 colorful themes, more will be added in the future. - Rich widgets, support transparent effects, can beautify your desktop and create a personalized desktop. - Multiple widgets, support countdown, countdown, reminder, focus clock. Recent Updates: - Two new clock styles and widgets have been added: Cheering Duck and Childlike
TickClock
Enhance your desktop with a customizable digital clock featuring various themes and adjustable display options. Includes a Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions.
- Customizable clock themes
- Adjustable display size
- Show/hide seconds
- 12/24 hour format
- Portrait/landscape switch
- Pomodoro timer
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TickClock is an exquisite desktop digital clock with a variety of beautiful clock themes and exquisite stickers. Features: - display time - Pomodoro - Support show and hide seconds - 12/24 hours arbitrary switching - Switch between portrait and landscape at will - Expand/shrink to any size - Adjust background brightnessFeatures: - display time - Support show and hide seconds - 12/24 hours arbitrary switching - Switch between portrait and landscape at will - Expand/shrink to any size - Adjust background brightness Subscription Description: • After becoming a Clock Member, you can unlock all paid features and receive future free updates. • After confirming the purchase and payment, your iTunes account will be automatically renewed. The Apple iTunes account will charge within 24 hours before expiration, and upon successful payment, the subscription period will be extended by one billing cycle. To cancel the renewal, please manually turn off the auto-renewal function at least 24 hours before the current subscription period ends. During the trial period, if the iTunes account does not cancel the subscription, it will automatically activate the subscription and charge at the end of the trial period. Unused trial time will automatically expire after purchasing the subscription. This service is at your discretion to cancel; if you choose not to cancel, the next billing cycle will be automatically renewed. Terms of Use: https://www.yuque.com/dev-robin/lgehdk/pf4ggu645p6a5wi8?singleDoc Privacy Policy: https://www.yuque.com/docs/share/90ccaeb2-61fe-4cb8-8d63-c162a2f8dd05
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: X Clock at 5.0 against TickClock's 4.6. X Clock also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 91%). TickClock's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (8 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. X Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TickClock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
X Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TickClock has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of X Clock's written reviews are positive against 91% of TickClock's.
X Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, TickClock fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X Clock | TickClock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 305 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 晓伟 庄 | 亭 邓 |
Customer experience
X Clock
TickClock
In-app purchases
X Clock
- XClock Permanent Premium$0.99
TickClock
- Mounthly Plan$0.991 Month
- Annual Plan$4.991 Year
- Lifetime Plan$12.99
