Comparison

Cool Penguin Clock vs Ortholinear Keyboard

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

Head to head
About

Cool Penguin Clock

Features
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How about a cool penguin clock for the hot summer? You can choose from 20 different pictures of penguins. You can move the time text, analog clock, and penguin with your fingers. The analog clock and penguin can be zoomed in and out with two fingers. Seconds can also be displayed. Background color can be selected from 5 different colors. The year, month, day of the week, a.m./p.m., and seconds can be erased by touching them. Touching the time character switches to setting mode. When in setting mode, touch to change the year, month, and date to various formats. You can also switch between 12-hour and 24-hour displays. Screen rotation in portrait and landscape mode is also supported. By pressing buttons such as "2X" and "3X," the font size can be adjusted in steps. The time signal can be selected from 78 different tones.

About

Ortholinear Keyboard

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Big fingers deserve room to type. Standard keys feel cramped under your thumbs? Ortholinear is built for bigger fingers, with wider keys, larger letters, and adjustable spacing. Give your hands more generous touch targets and a layout that fits the way you type. Ortholinear is a Ukrainian and English keyboard for iPhone and iPad, with optional layouts for Polish, German, French, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic), Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Russian. Straight rows and equal-width letter cells make the most of the available space. Choose a preset or adjust the keyboard to suit your hands. MAKE THE SPACE YOURS • Start with Big letters, Balanced, or Original grid. • Adjust letter size, key height, control-row height, and spacing with a live preview. • Give Return and Delete more room, with Delete immediately after M / Š®. • Keep Ukrainian letters free of an apostrophe key. • Add a space after punctuation automatically, or turn it off. • Choose Shift placement and optional punctuation keys. • Extend touch targets into the gaps between keys. • Choose Warm Light, Soft Dark, High Contrast, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin Mocha, Nord, or Automatic themes, plus your own accent color. TYPE FASTER • Glide typing in English and Ukrainian: slide across the letters of a word and lift. • Sentences start with a capital on their own, and two Spaces end a sentence with a period. • Punctuation waits in the suggestion row between words, one tap away. • Flick a top-row key down for its digit, or turn on a number row. • Typed a Ukrainian word with the English layout on? One tap fixes it and switches language. UKRAINIAN + ENGLISH • Switch languages with one tap. • Type the full Ukrainian alphabet; hold г for Ņ‘ and Š“ for Ґ. • Optionally move ї to long-press і for a wider top row, with small hints to help you find held letters. • Access numbers, symbols, and punctuation alternatives. • Hold 123, slide to a symbol, and release to type it and return to letters. • Keep 123 / ABC at the far left, with clear feedback on keyboard controls. • Slide on Space to move the cursor. • Double-tap Shift for caps lock. Hold Delete to erase gradually faster. MORE LANGUAGES AND LAYOUTS • Add Polish, German, French, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic), Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Russian; the language key cycles through the ones you turn on. • Hold letters for accented forms such as ą, ß, Ć©, ř, and ё. • Type English in QWERTY, Colemak, Colemak-DH, Dvorak, or Workman. • Message, search, email, and web address fields each reopen in the language you last used in them. MAKE IT YOURS • Layout Workshop: move letters, choose what each key holds, and try it before applying. Free. • Share a layout as a file, or open one someone else made. ORTHOLINEAR PRO: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Flicks on any key: swipe up, down, left or right for a symbol. One tap puts ! @ # on every letter. • Keycap colorways: eight keycap sets, or your own colors, fonts and sculpted keycaps. • Navigation keys: move by word or line, delete whole words, type ( ) with the cursor inside. • Text expansions: type ;mail and get your email address. • Layers for math, code and writing, phrase keys, and saved setups you can switch and share. Everything that was free stays free. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS Typing works without Full Access. No analytics, ads, app accounts, or typed-text collection. Typing and settings stay on your device. Nothing is autocorrected: optional word suggestions run on your device and change a word only when you tap one. TRY IT BEFORE ENABLING Use the interactive keyboard preview inside the app, customize your layout, then follow the setup guide to enable Ortholinear in iOS Settings. Works in apps that allow third-party keyboards. iOS uses its own keyboard for password and phone-pad fields. Some apps disable third-party keyboards. Open source under the MIT license.

Screenshots

Cool Penguin Clock4 screens
Ortholinear Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ortholinear Keyboard at none against Cool Penguin Clock's shown. Ortholinear Keyboard also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Cool Penguin Clock's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Cool Penguin Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ortholinear Keyboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cool Penguin Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, Ortholinear Keyboard every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Cool Penguin Clock versus Ortholinear Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCool Penguin ClockOrtholinear Keyboard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMihoko ArakiIgor Varyvoda

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cool Penguin Clock

One-time1
  • Penguin Clock with no ads$1.99
1 purchases

Ortholinear Keyboard

One-time1
  • Ortholinear Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Cool Penguin Clock free?
Cool Penguin Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ortholinear Keyboard free?
Ortholinear Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cool Penguin Clock or Ortholinear Keyboard have ads?
Cool Penguin Clock shows ads; Ortholinear Keyboard does not.
Which is updated more often, Cool Penguin Clock or Ortholinear Keyboard?
Cool Penguin Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ortholinear Keyboard every 8 days. Most recently, Cool Penguin Clock was updated on October 25, 2026 and Ortholinear Keyboard on October 29, 2026.

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