Comparison

Set the clock vs Flik & Flak

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

Head to head
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!

About

Flik & Flak

Embark on a time-telling adventure with engaging games designed to teach children how to read an analog clock. Explore 36 levels and 5 learning modules developed with educational specialists, featuring personalized avatars and augmented reality.

Highlights
  • 36 dynamic gaming levels
  • 5 time-telling learning modules
  • Personalized avatars
  • Augmented reality feature
  • Offline play
  • Available in 12 languages
Features
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A TIME-TELLING ADVENTURE LIKE NO OTHER Children are invited to join Flik and Flak on a very special time-learning quest. The brother and sister duo’s mission is simple: help kids to learn how to read the time but in the most entertaining way imaginable – through gaming. Before them lay 36 dynamic levels of gaming and learning to help them become true time-telling champions. Will the siblings rise to the challenge of running, jumping and rolling their way through the engaging tasks to learn all about time and how to tell the time? Only time will tell! LEARNING TO TELL THE TIME THROUGH GAMING Welcome to an ultra playful way for kids to learn to read and tell the time. Flik Flak has always been much more than simply a watch, but this educational app helps Flik and Flak take teaching kids all over the world to tell the time on an analog clock to a whole new level. Using gaming, the Flik Flak app has been created with the kids of today in mind to make the experience of learning to read the time as fun and interactive as possible. With learning modules developed in conjunction with educational specialists and based on the unique Flik Flak methodology, children will learn everything they need to know about how to tell the time. Plus, they’ll be having so much fun they won’t even realize they’re learning! Through interacting with the gaming functions of the learning modules, they will learn the answers to questions like: What are the names of the individual parts of a clock? How do hours and minutes work? What strategies do I use to find my way around the clock face? And that’s not all – children will have plenty of opportunities to put their own creative mark on their experience of telling the time with the app thanks to a special augmented reality level and personalized Flik and Flak avatars. Plus, they’ll have the chance to merge the real and digital worlds with their own drawings. Features of this new fun eductaional app: - 36 dynamic levels of gaming - 5 learning modules on telling time, suited to both younger and older kids: 1. Clock structure 2. Hours 3. Minutes 4. There are 24 hours in a day 5. Calculating with time - Avatars with user-personalized Flik and Flak - Augmented reality feature - Time-telling games developed in conjunction with educators - Available in 12 languages - No in-app purchases - No advertising or commercial content - Playable offline anywhere Since 1987, Flik Flak has been more than just a watch for kids. Flik Flak is a dedicated children’s Swiss watch brand that is based on the unique Flik Flak methodology for teaching how to tell the time. It makes learning to read the time fun.

Screenshots

Set the clock4 screens
Flik & Flak4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flik & Flak at Free against Set the clock's $0.99. Flik & Flak also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Set the clock's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 46%) and ratings volume (986 vs 33). On rating, 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

Flik & Flak is free to download; Set the clock costs $0.99 up front. Set the clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Flik & Flak asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Set the clock against 4.5 for Flik & Flak. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Set the clock has 986 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Set the clock's written reviews are positive against 46% of Flik & Flak's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Set the clock ships an update every 2 months, Flik & Flak every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Set the clock versus Flik & Flak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSet the clockFlik & Flak
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (986 ratings)4.5 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better45.6% of reviews
Number of ratings986 — better33
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB473 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrank GuchelaarSWATCH LTD

Customer experience

Set the clock

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

Flik & Flak

All ratings13 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive45.6%
Neutral10.4%
Negative44.0%

Bugs and requests

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

Flik & Flak

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Set the clock

One-time1
  • Multiple profiles$0.99
None

Flik & Flak

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Set the clock free?
Set the clock costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Flik & Flak free?
Flik & Flak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Set the clock or Flik & Flak?
Flik & Flak is rated higher. Set the clock averages 4.5 out of 5 from 986 ratings, while Flik & Flak averages 4.5 from 33 ratings.
Do Set the clock or Flik & Flak have ads?
Neither Set the clock nor Flik & Flak shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Set the clock or Flik & Flak?
Set the clock ships an update every 2 months, and Flik & Flak every 3 months. Most recently, Set the clock was updated on October 24, 2026 and Flik & Flak on October 24, 2026.

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