Comparison

QiMen World vs Slow Ink Clock

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

Head to head
About

QiMen World

This app helps users plot Qimen charts quickly and easily. It displays chart components like deities, stars, and doors in a colorful format, showing structures and formations.

Highlights
  • Colorful chart display
  • Plot hour, day, month, year charts
  • Fastest and easiest plotting
  • Shows components, structures, formations
Features
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The Qimen Chart Plotter provides several functions below: 1) Displaying Deities, Stars, Doors, Stems in a Colorful Pictorial Format 2) Users can plot Hour, Day, Month and Year Chart in the fastest and easiest way 3) Showing components, structures and formations

About

Slow Ink Clock

Features
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Slow Ink Clock turns time into a flowing Chinese ink-wash painting. It does more than show the hour and minute. It brings traditional time periods, the lunar calendar, the 24 solar terms, day and night, moon phases, and live weather into a quiet, atmospheric iOS clock experience. By day, the ink opens like morning light. At night, the screen settles into moonlight and deep ink. When the weather changes, sunlight, clouds, mist, rain, thunderstorms, and wind move through the scene in an ink-wash style. Slow Ink Clock uses Apple Weather data so weather becomes part of the artwork, not just a line of text. Place iPhone horizontally in StandBy and it becomes an ink-wash clock for your bedside or desk. Add it to your Home Screen as a Widget, and time and weather can stay with you in a calmer, more poetic way. Main features: • Ink-wash clock: xuan paper, ink tones, white space, and red seals create an Eastern time painting • Apple Weather: live weather affects clouds, rain, mist, thunder, and wind in the scene • StandBy experience: place iPhone horizontally to create a bedside or desk ink clock • Widget support: view calligraphy time and weather summaries directly on the Home Screen • 24 solar terms: the visual atmosphere changes with the traditional seasonal calendar • Lunar calendar and stems/branches: Chinese date and time culture shown in a clear visual form • Day, night, and moon phases: the mood shifts with time of day and lunar phase • Calligraphy fonts: choose different Chinese type styles to change the character of the clock The free version includes every calligraphy font and the basic clock experience. All calligraphy fonts are free for the main time and details. Ink Weather is an auto-renewable subscription that unlocks weather text and ink-wash weather animations. Monthly and yearly plans include a 7-day free trial. After the trial, the subscription renews automatically at the price shown by the App Store. You can cancel in Apple ID subscription settings. Lifetime Unlock is a one-time purchase that unlocks Ink Weather forever. All fonts are free. Apple Weather legal attribution: https://weatherkit.apple.com/legal-attribution.html Privacy Policy: https://www.cactalyst.com/slow-ink-clock/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

QiMen World4 screens
Slow Ink Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QiMen World at none against Slow Ink Clock's 4. QiMen World also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Slow Ink Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). 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. Slow Ink Clock sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. QiMen World asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QiMen World ships an update monthly, Slow Ink Clock every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
QiMen World versus Slow Ink Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQiMen WorldSlow Ink Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB376 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSHOW AND TELL ACADEMY SDN BHDAndrew Li

In-app purchases

None

QiMen World

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Slow Ink Clock

Subscriptions2
  • Ink Weather Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Ink Weather Yearly$5.991 Year
One-time2
  • Slow Ink Clock Font Pack$0.99
  • Slow Ink Clock Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is QiMen World free?
QiMen World is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slow Ink Clock free?
Slow Ink Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do QiMen World or Slow Ink Clock have ads?
Neither QiMen World nor Slow Ink Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QiMen World or Slow Ink Clock?
QiMen World ships an update monthly, and Slow Ink Clock every 9 days. Most recently, QiMen World was updated on October 4, 2026 and Slow Ink Clock on October 17, 2026.

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