PlayWithClock vs TickTock Tutor
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)!
TickTock Tutor
This app helps children learn to tell time using a voice-based approach. It offers customizable difficulty levels and supports both digital and analog clock faces. The ad-free experience ensures focused learning for young users.
- Voice-based time learning
- Analog and digital clock support
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Customizable learning pace
- Ad-free learning experience
- Practice full, half, and minute times
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Introducing iKlockan Learning Clock, the ultimate tool for learning to read a clock, designed specifically for children. This innovative app bridges the gap between spoken time and the visual representation on a watch face, be it digital or analogue. Offering multiple difficulty levels, iKlockan can be customised to suit your child's needs as they grow and learn. Best of all, iKlockan is 100% ad-free, providing an uninterrupted and engaging learning experience. Begin your child's journey towards mastering time with iKlockan today. The free version allows you to practise full and half hours. The full version lets you practise all variation of time down to the minute, and adds the possibility to change the speech rate of the time telling voice. It also adds game mode and a high score chart.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlayWithClock at none against TickTock Tutor's 1. PlayWithClock also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). TickTock Tutor's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. TickTock Tutor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PlayWithClock asks for nothing beyond the download.
PlayWithClock holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of PlayWithClock's written reviews are positive against 50% of TickTock Tutor's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and July 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayWithClock | TickTock Tutor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (15 ratings) — better | 4.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akiyo Imanaka | John Lennart Ahlinder |
Customer experience
PlayWithClock
TickTock Tutor
In-app purchases
PlayWithClock
No in-app purchases
TickTock Tutor
- Unlock All Features$0.99
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