Comparison

Interactive Telling Time Pro vs Set the clock

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

Head to head
About

Interactive Telling Time Pro

This app offers an engaging and fun way for children to learn how to tell time on both analog and digital clocks. It features interactive clocks, multiple languages, and various difficulty levels to support progressive learning for ages 3-12.

Highlights
  • Learn analog and digital time
  • Interactive clocks with movable hands
  • Multiple language support
  • 5 difficulty levels
  • Progress tracking
  • Quiz mode
  • Reward system
Features
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- Selected by Apple as iPhone App of the Week in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Overall New & Noteworthy in France, China - Discover an easy and fun way to learn analog/digital clocks. - 2012 Parents' Choice Silver Award winner - Parents' Choice Foundation - Learn to tell the time in different languages! Multiple languages all recorded by native speakers (English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Swedish, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Korean, Chinese and Italian). "a thorough, well thought out approach to learning and practicing the art of telling time" -- www.theiphonemom.com "an incredible process to teach your child time-based concepts using nothing but your iPad or iPhone" - 5 out of 5 stars -- www.theiphoneappreview.com - Includes 9 beautifully hand drawn interactive clocks that comes with movable hour and minutes hands especially designed for small fingers! This app was made for you by artists and educators, with the help from school teachers and mother’s groups to bring you the best app in learning to tell the time for young beginners. We understand the many challenges faced by parents when explaining concepts to young children and that is why Interactive Telling Time balances the need for learning with fun and interactive games. Interactive Telling Time is great for kids from ages 3 to 12 and comes in 5 difficulty levels so that it helps kids master telling time progressively (statistics is provided to help keep track of your child’s progress). Beautifully illustrated with many adorable clock designs and accompanied by encouraging voice-overs and cheerful background music, this app creates a kid-friendly environment to enhance their learning experience. Interactive Telling Time Features: Universal App: - Universal app for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. Educational: - Learn to set the time via Interactive clocks with movable hour and minute hand! - Learn to read a clock/to tell time. - Learn conversion between analog clock and digital clock - Learn the concept of day and night. - Learn how to use AM/PM, 12 hour and 24 hour clock notation. - Quiz Mode (Learn concepts such as ‘o’clock‘, ‘midnight’, ‘half past’, ‘quarter past’, ‘quarter to’, ‘past’, ‘to’, etc.) - Designed for kids aged 3-12! 5 difficulty levels to choose from. - A score board to keep track of kid’s progress - Tutorials for young learners. - Virtual Aquarium reward - Your kids will want to play to try to win all the rewards! Beautifully designed interface: - 9 Beautifully Hand Drawn Interactive Clock including: + Simple Teaching Clock (crisp indicators to make it simple and easy) + Lion Clock, + Train Clock, + Aquarium Clock, + Moon Clock, + Flower Clock, + Gears Clock, + Owl Clock and + Seven Wonders Clock! - Creatively designed animated rotating earth which alternates between sunrise, noon, sunset, and night backgrounds. - Easy to use interface specifically designed for young learners Additional Fun Games with educational values: - Stop The Clock - A fun and exciting game designed with an educational focus. With the clock minutes hand ticking, kids will have to stop the clock as per quiz question (for example, Stop the clock at 9:45!). - Clock Puzzle - help kids learn the positions and use of all clock components such as digits, hour hand and minute hand. - Discover time at your own pace in our new Explore Time play mode! * Still undecided? Try our lite version for FREE! Just search for “Interactive Telling Time Lite” in the App Store -------------- Connect with us! Visit us: http://www.GiggleUp.com Like us: facebook.com/GiggleUpApps Follow us: twitter.com/GiggleUpApps Email us: Support@GiggleUp.com Brought to you by GiggleUp, creators of the award-winning Interactive Telling Time and other educational apps for kids. Our goal is to promote learning through play with the purpose of helping children develop useful learning skills. Our apps have been enjoyed by children and used in classrooms all around the world!

About

Set the clock

This app helps children learn to tell time using an interactive wooden clock. It offers nine game types with multiple difficulty levels and spoken instructions in several languages, making learning engaging and challenging.

Highlights
  • Interactive wooden clock design
  • Nine game types for time practice
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Spoken instructions in multiple languages
  • Earn medals for correct answers
  • Analog and digital time modes
Features
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* Listed in the top 3 of educational apps in the Dutch App Store! ‘Set the clock’ can help your child to learn to tell time and revives old times by reintroducing the wooden clock on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch! You can practice together with your child, or let him/her perform assignments on his/her own using the nine game types in the App: "Set the clock’, ‘Tell the time’, ‘Adjust the clock’ and more. The assignments are clearly pronounced in English. Besides English, it is also possible to have the assignments spoken in Dutch, German, French, Spanish and even Chinese. This makes that "Set the clock" can provide enough challenge even for older children. Each game type, has five levels of difficulty. When enough correct answers are given, you are rewarded with a bronze, silver or gold medal! The app is fully usable even without the Multiple Profiles option. Features: - Beautifully designed wooden clock. - Earn medals and shows that you are a real time telling champion! - Multiple game modes (nine in total; analog and digital): > Learn to set the clock to the correct time. > Choose which clock displays the correct time. > Learn to set the clock ahead or back. - Tap the clock’s digits to hear what number it is. - English spoken, so your child can practice independently. - Different levels: hours, half hours, per quarter and per 5 minutes. - Also suitable for older children / pupils, because of the ability to tell time in other languages. In short: a great educational app for both young and old. Learn telling time is just as fun as ever!

Screenshots

Interactive Telling Time Pro4 screens
Set the clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Interactive Telling Time Pro at none against Set the clock's 1. Interactive Telling Time Pro also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Set the clock's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (983 vs 75). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Interactive Telling Time Pro costs $2.99 and Set the clock $0.99 up front. Set the clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Interactive Telling Time Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Set the clock holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Set the clock has 983 ratings behind it against 75, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Interactive Telling Time Pro's written reviews are positive against 75% of Set the clock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Interactive Telling Time Pro versus Set the clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInteractive Telling Time ProSet the clock
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.1 (75 ratings)4.5 (983 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings75983 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGiggleUp Kids Apps And Educational Games Pty LtdFrank Guchelaar

Customer experience

Interactive Telling Time Pro

All ratings75 ratings
Positive78.7%
Neutral1.3%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews217 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative18.9%

Set the clock

All ratings983 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral11.9%
Negative13.1%

User reviews

Interactive Telling Time Pro

From 75 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and engaging
  • 🕰️ Helps learn to tell time
  • 🐠 Rewarding aquarium feature
  • 🧠 Good for learning progression
  • 🎓 Useful for teachers and students

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or white screen issues
  • 🔢 Lack of options for time formats (e.g. half past)
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 No support for multiple user profiles

Set the clock

From 983 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🧠 Helpful for learning time
  • 🕰️ Fun and engaging way to learn
  • 👍 Great for kids and beginners
  • 💯 Excellent app for time learning
  • 🤩 Enjoyable and effective

Room to improve

  • 🤔 Confusing language usage
  • 🤖 Robotic voice could be improved
  • 🤯 Levels too easy for some users
  • 🔇 Lack of feedback for wrong answers

Bugs and requests

Interactive Telling Time Pro

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App not opening, just showing a white screen
  • Losing progress or fish after app updates

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add support for half past, quarter to/past time formats
  • Introduce multiple aquariums or profiles for different users
  • Incorporate more advanced time-related exercises and concepts

Set the clock

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Digital time display issues
  • Problems with language settings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more advanced levels
  • Provide feedback for incorrect answers
  • Improve voice and language clarity
  • Offer more clock customization options

In-app purchases

None

Interactive Telling Time Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Set the clock

One-time1
  • Multiple profiles$0.99

Questions

Is Interactive Telling Time Pro free?
Interactive Telling Time Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Set the clock free?
Set the clock costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Interactive Telling Time Pro or Set the clock?
Set the clock is rated higher. Interactive Telling Time Pro averages 4.1 out of 5 from 75 ratings, while Set the clock averages 4.5 from 983 ratings.
Do Interactive Telling Time Pro or Set the clock have ads?
Neither Interactive Telling Time Pro nor Set the clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Interactive Telling Time Pro or Set the clock?
Interactive Telling Time Pro ships an update every 2 months, and Set the clock every 2 months. Most recently, Interactive Telling Time Pro was updated on September 23, 2026 and Set the clock on September 24, 2026.

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