Comparison

ClockFire vs Pixel art magic

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Pixel art magic

Create pixel art with ease using your fingers. Save your favorite colors, share your creations on social media, and manage your artwork in a personal gallery. Perfect for simple drawing projects.

Highlights
  • Finger drawing interface
  • Color history storage
  • Social media sharing
  • In-app gallery
  • Artwork management
Features
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Its easy anyway! If you want draw a pixel art simple, this app for you! You can create freely character or landscape with your fingers. - Function - - Color history You can store 4 colors for each work. It can be use immediately at editing. - Share You can share your favorite art picture to social network. - Gallery Show your created art in gallery and edit or delete it. - About screenshot - The sample picture of screenshot is just a example.

Screenshots

ClockFire4 screens
Pixel art magic4 screens

Verdict

The call

ClockFire and Pixel art magic both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 57% of Pixel art magic's written reviews are positive against 33% of ClockFire's. Pixel art magic also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ClockFire against 5.0 for Pixel art magic. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of ClockFire's written reviews are positive against 57% of Pixel art magic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClockFire ships an update every 3 months, Pixel art magic monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ClockFire versus Pixel art magic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClockFirePixel art magic
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.06.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperEric DegrangeQQ TSUBASA

Customer experience

ClockFire

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Pixel art magic

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral42.9%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ClockFire

No in-app purchases

None

Pixel art magic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClockFire free?
ClockFire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pixel art magic free?
Pixel art magic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ClockFire or Pixel art magic?
ClockFire and Pixel art magic are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do ClockFire or Pixel art magic have ads?
Neither ClockFire nor Pixel art magic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClockFire or Pixel art magic?
ClockFire ships an update every 3 months, and Pixel art magic monthly. Most recently, ClockFire was updated on October 23, 2026 and Pixel art magic on October 24, 2026.

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