PlayWithClock vs Smart Clocks
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)!
Smart Clocks
This educational app helps children learn about clocks and time through interactive exercises. It features engaging activities for practicing time-telling, writing, and understanding time intervals with voice and text instructions.
- Observe time changes with interactive hands
- Practice writing time from clock indications
- Draw clock hands from digital displays
- Calculate time before or after a given period
- Determine time between two clock indications
- Text and voice instructions for all modules
- Animation demonstrations of clocks
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This is a app that helps kids understand clock and time. Practice time questions in an interactive way through a cute interface. 1 Observe the time changes by turning the hour and minute hands. 2 Practice writing the time through the clock indication. 3 Practice drawing the clock hands through digital display. 4 Write the target time before or after a period of time. 5 Write the time between two clock indications. Each module has text and voice instructions. The correct answer will be given for each question, which is convenient for checking. Some questions will give animation demonstrations of clocks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Clocks at 5.0 against PlayWithClock's 4.4. Smart Clocks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). PlayWithClock's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Clocks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlayWithClock has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PlayWithClock ships an update every 6 weeks, Smart Clocks every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayWithClock | Smart Clocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akiyo Imanaka | Yan Xu |
Customer experience
PlayWithClock
Smart Clocks
In-app purchases
PlayWithClock
No in-app purchases
Smart Clocks
No in-app purchases
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