ClockFire vs ColorBox Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ClockFire
Transform your device into a dynamic digital photo frame with realistic fire, smoke, or plasma clock effects. Customize transitions, zoom, and photo display order for a personalized viewing experience. Add atmospheric touches like snow or rain for an enhanced mood.
- Realistic fire, smoke, or plasma clock effects
- 20 transition effects
- Customizable transition duration and type
- Zoom effect on photos
- Random or ordered photo display
- Optional snow or rain overlays
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Turn your iPad, iPhone, Mac, or Apple TV into a living digital photo frame, with the time written in real fire. A beautiful desk, bedside, and night clock over your favorite photos, with cinematic transitions, Live Scenes, and atmospheres. ClockFire first lit up screens in 2010. ClockFire 2 is a complete rebirth: rebuilt from scratch with Metal and rendered in real time on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Apple TV. YOUR PHOTOS, BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED • Show albums, Favorites, and On This Day memories from your photo library, or import your own photos • Start right away with more than 40 stunning sample photos • Smart framing keeps faces and subjects in view • Slow, cinematic Ken Burns pan and zoom • Two portrait photos side by side on landscape screens • Discreet captions with the date and place A CLOCK MADE OF FIRE • Real-time flames, embers, and heat haze • More effects to match your mood: Smoke, Plasma, Neon, Ice, Molten Gold, Liquid Glass, Aurora, Hologram, and Minimal • Several clock styles, from 7-segment to rounded, thin, and serif • Your favorite colors, plus the date • Local weather, with temperature and conditions • Time and date formats that follow your region settings CINEMATIC TRANSITIONS • The 20 ClockFire classics, reimagined in 3D: flips, page turn, tiles, waves, ripple, twirl… • Spectacular new ones: burning paper, page curl, glass shatter, cube, dust, ink, water drop… LIVE SCENES Animated paintings rendered in real time between your photos: a cozy fireplace, northern lights, an ocean sunset, a misty forest with fireflies, an underwater lagoon, a koi pond, a black hole, a nebula, a spiral galaxy, a lava lamp, synthwave, and more. CHRISTMAS AND HALLOWEEN Three big Christmas scenes that come alive all December: • Santa’s Run: the elves’ village at the North Pole, a magic box to open on each day of Advent and, on the night of the 24th, the sleigh following midnight around the Earth, all the way to your home • Christmas Village: skaters on the frozen lake, a steam train and bells at midnight • Christmas Hamlet: a fairy tale in the woods, twinkling fir trees and a bonfire And for Halloween: fog, storms and ghosts. Try each big scene in full for an hour. YOUR MUSIC Tens of thousands of radio stations from around the world, your own songs or your Apple Music playlists, in place of the scenes’ sounds. The song playing shows under the clock. ATMOSPHERES Snow, rain, rain on glass, fireflies, cherry blossoms, autumn leaves, embers, shooting stars, mist, bubbles, and light rays. Choose Seasons to follow the time of year, or Live Weather to bring the sky outside onto your frame: when it rains outside, it rains on your photos. MADE FOR DAY AND NIGHT • Night mode dims the frame, keeps only the clock, or turns the screen off on a schedule • HDR glow on XDR displays • Keeps the screen awake, like a screensaver for your desk, nightstand, or kitchen • Tap for controls, swipe for the next or previous photo, drag and pinch the clock, double-tap for settings • Menus and keyboard shortcuts on Mac, full remote support on Apple TV FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL ONE-TIME UPGRADE ClockFire is free to download and includes unlimited photos, the Fire and Minimal clocks, 10 transitions, 2 Live Scenes, snow and rain, and night mode. ClockFire Pro is a one-time purchase, with no subscription. It unlocks every clock effect and color, all transitions, all Live Scenes, all atmospheres, local weather on the clock, your music files and Internet Radio. Not sure yet? Preview any Pro feature live for 30 seconds. Weather data provided by Apple Weather.
ColorBox Pro
Create beautiful sketches and doodles with a user-friendly interface and curated color palettes. This app offers a simple yet engaging drawing experience for creative expression.
- Sketching and doodling functionality
- Friendly user interface
- Carefully chosen color palettes
- Creative expression tool
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ColorBox Pro is the new version of ColorBox, a wonderful App to sketch and doodle beautiful drawing with a friendly user-interface and a careful choose of color palettes. Enjoy the new friendly user-interface with a careful choice of new color palettes. This application requires iOS 9.3 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ClockFire at 5.0 against ColorBox Pro's 3.3. ClockFire also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 20%) and device support (4 vs 1). ColorBox Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads 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. ClockFire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ColorBox Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
ClockFire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ColorBox Pro has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of ClockFire's written reviews are positive against 20% of ColorBox Pro's.
ClockFire ships an update every 3 months, ColorBox Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ClockFire | ColorBox Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.3 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eric Degrange | Batsu |
Customer experience
ClockFire
ColorBox Pro
In-app purchases
ClockFire
- ClockFire Pro$2.99
ColorBox Pro
No in-app purchases
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