PlayWithClock vs RTH Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlayWithClock
An interactive clock application designed to help users learn to tell time. It allows manipulation of clock hands, provides spoken time in English and Japanese, and offers time-telling challenges. Users can even record their own voices for spoken time.
- Manipulate clock hands
- Listen to spoken time (English/Japanese)
- Time-telling challenges
- Record custom voice for time
- Switch between English and Japanese
- Customizable clock parts and colors
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An analog clock app to rotate the hands and see and hear the time. Try clock questions, record your voice to speak the time, switch Japanese and English display and audio, repeat the time at intervals, check X minutes before or after, and customize clock parts and colors. Reading analog clocks can help develop math skills. Enjoy it in your free time. Thank you for more than 1 million downloads (iOS only)!
RTH Clock
This app helps children learn to tell time through an interactive game and learning modules. It uses sound, text, and numbers to teach reading a clock in a simple, clean interface.
- Interactive learning game
- Learn via sound, text, and numbers
- Random time generation
- Read time aloud
- Clean and simple design
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Teaching kids in clean design, simple, and easy to use are futures for this app. This app is useful, easy to use, and simple to learn how to read a clock. It will help your kids to learn by Sound, Text, and Numbers. There are two main parts to this app: Test: The Test part is more like an educational game for kids to learn how to read a clock. If you press on Next it will show you random time and if you press on Tell me it will write the time and tell you by sound. Learn: In learn tab, your kids can learn how to read a clock within sound, text, and time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PlayWithClock at 4.4 against RTH Clock's 3.6. PlayWithClock also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 21 months). RTH Clock's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PlayWithClock holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of PlayWithClock's written reviews are positive against 50% of RTH Clock's.
PlayWithClock ships an update every 6 weeks, RTH Clock every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayWithClock | RTH Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) — better | 3.6 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akiyo Imanaka | Hemin Ibrahim |
Customer experience
PlayWithClock
RTH Clock
In-app purchases
PlayWithClock
No in-app purchases
RTH Clock
No in-app purchases
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