Comparison

Spiffy Clock vs CronPing

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Spiffy Clock

Customize your device's time and date display with a variety of colors, gradients, and layout options. Tailor the appearance to your preference, including support for light and dark modes, and choose whether to show seconds, the day of the week, and more.

Highlights
  • 13 built-in background/text colors
  • Color gradient options
  • Customizable time and date display
  • Portrait and landscape mode support
  • Automatic light/dark mode color changes
  • Optional status bar hiding
Features
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Spiffy Clock puts the time and date front and center! It has 16 free colors that can be displayed as the background or as the text. An in-app purchase unlocks gradient backgrounds, gradient text, custom background and text colors, bi-color themes, gold, silver, and bronze, and rainbow coloring. Choose from numerous settings exactly how you want the time and date and day of the week displayed. When the color choice is for the background, the color will automatically change for light mode and dark mode, except when using custom colors. Works in both portrait and landscape mode. A night mode for use with dark mode allows you to display dark text in dark mode. Free color choices are: —Red —Orange —Yellow —Green —Mint —Cyan —Teal —Blue —Indigo —Purple —Pink —Brown —Black —Gray —White —System Paid color choices are: —Gradients —Gold —Silver —Bronze —Rainbow —Bi-color themes —Custom colors Time and date settings are: — Analog or digital clock —Show/hide seconds —Use 24 hour or 12 hour time with AM and PM —Show/hide date —Show/hide day of the week —Use numerical date You also can hide the status bar if you want. This app is a great complement to the desktop app Clock Suite. Similar colors are used, so there is a consistent look and feel across your devices.

About

CronPing

Features
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Schedule repeating alarms using cron expressions or a visual builder. CronPing lets you set alarms that fire on complex schedules — every weekday at 9 AM, every 15 minutes, the 1st and 15th of each month, or any schedule a crontab can express. Features: - Visual schedule builder or raw crontab input - Multiple chime sounds with optional repeat/snooze - Apple Shortcuts integration for automation - Alarm descriptions to remember what each alert is for

Screenshots

Spiffy Clock4 screens
CronPing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CronPing at none against Spiffy Clock's 1. CronPing also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spiffy Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CronPing asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Spiffy Clock versus CronPing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpiffy ClockCronPing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew RobertsReginald Chinthrajah

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spiffy Clock

One-time1
  • Spiffy Clock Pro$0.99
None

CronPing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spiffy Clock free?
Spiffy Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CronPing free?
CronPing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spiffy Clock or CronPing have ads?
Neither Spiffy Clock nor CronPing shows ads.

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