Beautiful Timer vs Bed Time | Large Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beautiful Timer
This utility app offers three distinct timer types: a simple elapsed time tracker, a countdown alarm, and a date timer for past or future events. Its unique visual design features intricate spinning gears to enhance the user experience.
- Elapsed time tracking
- Countdown alarm
- Date timer
- Spinning gear visuals
- Supports iPhone, iPad, iPod
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Beautiful Timer will mesmerize you with it's intricate spinning gears while you watch it track one of three different types of timers: (1) A simple timer (counting upwards to track elapsed time) (2) A count-down alarm (set hours, minutes, seconds) (3) A Date timer (set any date/time in the past or future)
Bed Time | Large Clock
This app offers a large, customizable clock designed for bedside or desk use. It features adjustable brightness, color options, and display settings like date and seconds. Calming sounds are included to aid sleep, and the interface is simple with gesture controls.
- Large, readable time display
- Adjustable brightness and color
- Dark and light modes
- Optional date, seconds, and 12/24 hour format
- Calming sleep sounds (rain, waves, fire)
- Gesture-based controls
- Portrait and landscape orientation support
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A simple and elegant clock with a focus on displaying the time in the most pleasing and readable way possible. There's a dark mode, with the ability to lower the brightness so that the time is only just readable, ideal for use at night as a bedside clock. During the day, the light mode with full and vibrant colours can be used to keep track of the time while you work. As well as customising the clock with a selection of colours and brightness levels, you can choose to display or hide the date, seconds, use the 12 or 24 hour clock, and of course toggle between night and day mode. The layout of the clock intelligently adjusts to make the best use of the screen whether your device is in portrait or landscape. Bed Time also includes a set of calming sounds - such as rain, ocean waves, a burning fire, etc - to help you drift off to sleep. Bed Time is designed with simplicity in mind - just tap the screen and a small selection of controls will be displayed - or alternatively you can use simple gestures: • Swipe left and right to cycle through a selection of colours • Swipe up and down to adjust the brightness • Pinch and zoom to show or hide the date and the seconds • Long press to switch between 4 different styles • Dark mode with a coloured background • Dark mode with a black background • Light mode with coloured background • Light mode with a white background • Elegant in both portrait and landscape The Bed Time app is designed to be used in conjunction with a stand on your bedside table or desk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beautiful Timer at none against Bed Time | Large Clock's 2. Beautiful Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Bed Time | Large Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 39 months) and review sentiment (78% vs 50%). On 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
Beautiful Timer costs $0.99 and Bed Time | Large Clock $1.99 up front. Bed Time | Large Clock sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Beautiful Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beautiful Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bed Time | Large Clock has 369 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Beautiful Timer's written reviews are positive against 78% of Bed Time | Large Clock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Beautiful Timer ships an update every 39 months, Bed Time | Large Clock every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beautiful Timer | Bed Time | Large Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (369 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 369 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Nettle | John Mackay |
Customer experience
Beautiful Timer
Bed Time | Large Clock
Bugs and requests
Beautiful Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bed Time | Large Clock
Reported bugs
4 issues- Brightness too high after update
- App shuts off during the night
- Clock lags slightly behind system clock
- Unable to use after payment (Scam)
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to set bedtimes
- Display date/day larger
- Better contrast options (white on black, yellow on black)
- Notification on screen for alarm activation
- Ability to lock phone with clock face displayed
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- Option to hide date display
- Adjust brightness/luminosity more effectively
In-app purchases
Beautiful Timer
No in-app purchases
Bed Time | Large Clock
- Calming SoundsFree
- Tip for Morning Coffee$2.99
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