X Clock vs DimClock
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
DimClock
This app provides a simple, dimmable clock with customizable text colors for the time, date, and seconds. It's designed for low energy consumption by reducing screen backlight brightness.
- Dimmable backlight
- Customizable text colors
- Low energy consumption
- Displays time, date, and seconds
- Simple interface
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DimClock is a dimmable simple clock app that works with low energy consumption by reducing brightness of backlight of iPhone screen. You can customize the brightness of the backlight and the color of the date, time, and seconds text.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: X Clock at 100% against DimClock's 50%. DimClock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. DimClock asks for nothing beyond the download.
X Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, DimClock every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X Clock | DimClock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 晓伟 庄 | Katsuhiko Noda |
Customer experience
X Clock
DimClock
In-app purchases
X Clock
- XClock Permanent Premium$0.99
DimClock
No in-app purchases
