ClockFire vs ProFocus
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.
ProFocus
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Turn any screen you already own into a digital photo frame — an old tablet in a drawer, a desktop, a TV, even a $10 DIY frame. Send photos from your phone; they appear on the frame instantly over your home WiFi. No cloud, no account. Your photos never leave your network. HOME HUB • One home screen for everything: send photos, receive, albums, remote and clock • Pick a role on first launch: main phone (sender) or photo frame (receiver) PHONE → FRAME IN 3 MINUTES • Open "Receive" on the frame — a QR code appears • Scan it with your phone — paired for good • Pick photos and send; they show up instantly ALBUMS & SLIDESHOWS — FREE • Group photos into albums • Slideshow templates: Classic, Ken Burns, Slide, Collage • All clock faces free: flip cards, circle, analog StandBy FRAME BY DAY, CLOCK BY NIGHT • A calm StandBy-style clock for your bedside • Focus timer with Pomodoro presets built in 100% PRIVATE • LAN-only: photos go device-to-device over your WiFi • No account. No ads. No third-party tracking. Works fully offline. DIY & TV • Works on Apple TV as a receiver • Makers: build a $10 ESP32 WiFi frame with our open hardware guide PRO (one-time lifetime purchase, or a monthly / quarterly subscription) • Send whole albums to another device in one tap • Remote-control any frame (next/prev/pause, change clock) SUBSCRIPTION INFO • ProFocus Pro Monthly and ProFocus Pro Quarterly are auto-renewable subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://profocus.fighttech.vn/privacy Six languages: English, Tiếng Việt, 한국어, 日本語, العربية, 中文. ProFocus is small on purpose — quiet software for a calmer home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ProFocus at every 9 days against ClockFire's every 3 months. ProFocus also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. ClockFire sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ProFocus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ClockFire ships an update every 3 months, ProFocus every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ClockFire | ProFocus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eric Degrange | Tran Trung Hieu |
In-app purchases
ClockFire
- ClockFire Pro$2.99
ProFocus
- ProFocus Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- ProFocus Pro Quarterly$8.993 Months
- ProFocus Pro$39.99









