Comparison

Timeless vs Verba Clock

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

Head to head
About

Timeless

This app displays time as words instead of numbers, offering a minimalist and elegant way to tell time. It's designed for users who appreciate aesthetics and a more relaxed approach to timekeeping, transforming your device into a stylish object.

Highlights
  • Time displayed in words
  • Nine language options
  • Adjustable display brightness
  • Deactivatable auto-lock
  • Day/night distinction
  • AirPlay compatibility
Features
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Timeless tells the time in words instead of numbers. No second hand. No ticking. No rush. Every few minutes the words fade gently from one moment to the next – a break from the constant rush of time. Timeless is accurate to within a couple of minutes, and that's exactly the point: a clock that asks you to slow down rather than count every second. Set it on your desk, your nightstand, or a device by the window. Or send it to the big screen with AirPlay. Either way, it becomes a small piece of living design. Always within reach – As a widget right on the Lock Screen of your iPhone or iPad – On your Apple Watch: as a complication on your watch face – and with the Watch add-on, as a full-screen view too. Make it your own – Read the time in many languages and dialects, from British English to Bavarian – Pick from handpicked color themes, or create your own – Add soft light filters for a glow that's entirely yours – Keep the screen awake so the clock is always there No account. No ads. No tracking. Just time, beautifully told. It began in 2011 as time2words and was downloaded over 200,000 times. Now it's back – rebuilt from the ground up, and calmer than ever. Once it was time for words. Now it's Timeless.

About

Verba Clock

Features
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Verba Clock tells the time the way people say it. No hands, no digits - a quiet grid of letters where the right words light up: IT IS TWENTY FIVE PAST TWELVE. FINISHES 18 crafted surfaces, from Deep Black and Stainless Steel to Gold, Rust, Waves and Metamorphite - plus two e-ink faces, Paper and Ink, rendered the way a real ink panel would: one ink, dithered letters, no glow. LANGUAGES 32 languages — English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew. Every face follows how that language actually says the time. EVERYWHERE YOU GLANCE • Home screen and lock screen widgets in every size • StandBy — a bedside word clock while charging • Apple Watch app with a Smart Stack widget • Dock mode: charging in landscape turns the phone into a dimmed night clock DETAILS THAT MATTER • Two presentations: a wall-mounted clock face or edge-to-edge full bleed • Word transitions: instant, fade, typewriter or blink • Corner dots or a minute row for the in-between minutes • Light play, brightness control, keep-awake, haptics PRIVATE BY DESIGN Verba Clock is fully offline. It makes no network requests, collects nothing, tracks nothing, and asks for no account. The only permission it uses is vibration for haptics.

Screenshots

Timeless4 screens
Verba Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

Timeless and Verba Clock are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Timeless versus Verba Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelessVerba Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuddhaCat PublishingFilip Vitas

In-app purchases

None

Timeless

No in-app purchases

None

Verba Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timeless free?
Timeless is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Verba Clock free?
Verba Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Timeless or Verba Clock have ads?
Neither Timeless nor Verba Clock shows ads.

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