Presentation Clock vs Gloo Messaging
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Presentation Clock
This app provides a highly visible, customizable timer for public speaking and presentations. It features large, color-changing numbers to indicate time thresholds and can optionally provide audible or vibration alerts. The timer continues counting up past zero to show how much time has been exceeded.
- Customizable color thresholds
- Large, easy-to-read display
- Count up after zero
- Audible and vibration alerts
- Create and save multiple timers
- Simple touch controls
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This app does one thing but it does it extremely well. If you give presentations, training, tutorials, or speak publicly, this app is for you. Beautifully animated, with large, easy to read numbers that change colors at thresholds you determine. When the timer hits 0:00, the colors invert (black on red) and continue counting up indicating how long you've gone over. Fully customizable options and simple touch controls * Create and save as many timers as you want * Set time limits for color warnings to change the clock to green, yellow and red * Timers can be configured to give audible and/or vibration alerts when crossing a time limit threshold—but if you want a completely silent countdown, thats ok too :)
Gloo Messaging
Facilitate authentic communication for church and ministry leaders. Manage contacts, send broadcasts, and respond to prayer requests on the go. Assign conversations and engage with members seamlessly.
- Real-time conversations
- Respond to prayer requests
- One-to-many Broadcasts
- Contact management
- Assign conversations
- Add to Groups/Workflows
- Engage with Explorers
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The Gloo Messaging app is designed for church and ministry leaders to communicate on the go. Now you can stay connected with your people through meaningful, real-time conversations, respond to prayer requests, send one-to-many Broadcasts, simplify contact management, assign conversations to team members, add people to Groups or Workflows, and engage with Explorers without missing a message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Presentation Clock at 67% against Gloo Messaging's 10%. Presentation Clock also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.3) and ads (none vs shown). Gloo Messaging's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On ratings volume, 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
Gloo Messaging is free to download; Presentation Clock costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Presentation Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 61 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Presentation Clock's written reviews are positive against 10% of Gloo Messaging's.
Presentation Clock ships an update every 3 months, Gloo Messaging every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Presentation Clock | Gloo Messaging |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (96 ratings) — better | 2.3 (61 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.0% of reviews — better | 9.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 61 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shawn Welch | Gloo LLC |
Customer experience
Presentation Clock
Gloo Messaging
Bugs and requests
Presentation Clock
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes on launch or during use
- Numbers/display not visible on screen (blank/black screen)
- Incompatibility with iOS 8, 9, and newer versions
- Tap targets for controls too small and hard to activate
- Tap-to-pause label inconsistently appears and disappears
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- Secondary display output misaligned on external monitors
- Timer list items reorder unexpectedly during editing
- App doesn't respond to taps or pinches
- Display cutoff on left side when using external displays
- App fails to work on iPad mini and some iPad models
Requested features
14 requests- Apple Watch companion app support
- Ability to name individual timer presets
- More than three time warning segments
- Count-up mode option (instead of countdown)
- Background timer functionality with notifications
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- Option to disable sound during color threshold changes
- Floating/picture-in-picture window for multitasking
- Synchronized timers across multiple iOS devices
- Visual progress bar or thermometer showing time used
- Larger, more accessible plus/minus buttons
- Real-time clock display alongside countdown
- Ability to set timer to end at specific clock time
- Fourth or additional time warning period
- Swipe gestures for time adjustment
Gloo Messaging
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Presentation Clock
No in-app purchases
Gloo Messaging
No in-app purchases
Questions
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