Hands Time vs Frame Screenshots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hands Time
Customize your device's home screen with unique, minimalist time widgets. Choose from various themes and styles, add personal photos or colors, and enjoy fluidly animated clock hands. Offers light and dark modes, 12/24 hour formats, and real-time weather updates.
- 7 Themes, 10+ Styles
- Customizable backgrounds with photos/colors
- Ad-free minimalist design
- Animated clock hands
- Light and Dark modes
- Real-time local weather
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Hands Time is more than a minimalist time widget - it's an invitation to shape time with your hands. FEATURES · 7 Themes, 10+ Styles available: Choose from a variety of ingenious crafted time widgets that suit your style and mood: Dots / Astronomy / Minimalist / LCD / Science Fiction / Historic. · Craft your widgets, easy to make time uniquely: Add your favourite photos or colours as widgets backgrounds. Decorate your timeless memories. · Made for Minimalists: Finding peace by effortlessly hiding date, scale, and second hand elements at any time. Immerse yourself in pure timekeeping and focus time itself. Ad-free. · Animated clock hands: The hour, minute, and second hand move seamlessly and fluidly, providing a visual representation of the passage of time. · Light and Dark modes: Seamlessly switch between different modes to match your preferences. · 12 and 24-hour time format. · Real-time local weather updates. · Countless free widgets, timers, world clocks and much more about TIME coming soon. TIME PREMIUM PASSPORT - ABOUT SUBSCRIPTION · With Hands Time Premium Passport, you'll enjoy unlimited access to ALL our time collections and be among the first to experience our exclusive premium-only creations. We continuously release new time collections in collaboration with visionary designers. · Hands Time offers three free widget spaces for everyone. Upgrade to Premium Passport for unlimited widget storage, effortlessly editing, managing, and unleashing your creative potential. · Personalise your Home Screen with a variety of Hands Time app icons. · Payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase. · Subscription automatically renew unless auto renew is turned off at least 24-hour prior to the end of the current period. · Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hour prior to the end of the current period. · Switch off anytime by accessing your account settings. SUPPORTS · Website: handstime.app · X: @handstime_app · Instagram: @handstime.app · Collaboration, Supports and Inquiries: handstime.app@gmail.com · Write a review in-app. Share your Hands Time moments. Terms of Use: https://handstime.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://handstime.app/privacy
Frame Screenshots
Enhance your screenshots by adding custom device frames, backgrounds, and lighting effects. Perfect for showcasing app designs, home screen layouts, or gaming captures with a professional touch. Automate the process with shortcuts and Siri integration.
- Add device frames (iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc.)
- Apply custom backgrounds (gradients, patterns, images)
- Adjust lighting and shadow effects
- Automatic screenshot detection
- Batch processing with Shortcuts and Siri
- Custom frame support
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“Shareshot does things that a shortcut can’t, and the results it produces look fantastic.” - MacStories “The first app that’s taken a spot on my main Control Center screen is Shareshot.” — Stephen Robles “One of the things I liked most about Shareshot is that it’s very intuitive.” — 9to5Mac ~~ Winner of MacStories Selects "Best Design" 2024 ~~ ~~ Upgradies 2024 Runner-up: Best Newcomer iOS App ~~ Create beautiful images for sharing screenshots, social posts, text, source code, podcasts and more so quickly it seems unreal. UNLIMITED FREE USE WITH NO WATERMARKS on single framed screenshots. WHAT YOU CAN DO * Add a perfectly fitted device frame to screenshots from iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and more. Perfect for sharing lock & home screen setups, promoting apps or adding device images to web content. Use batch mode to process many images instantly with consistent results. * Hide or blur personal information like names, faces and bank details with a single tap. * Instantly create images from social post links for reposting or adding to presentation slides, with option to include original links and QR Codes. (Supports X, BlueSky, Mastodon) * Add text or Markdown to post online as images using the supplied themes for announcements or promotions. * Paste source code fragments to get syntax-highlighted images for sharing online or in presentations. * Import links to automatically create attractive "card" images for sharing. All standard device bezels are included for free, always. A Pro subscription removes restrictions on more advanced features including: batch mode, custom background images, custom frame images, and Shortcuts. BACKGROUNDS * Add a pretty background — with thousands of gradient variations, striped patterns, and LGBTQ+ and solidarity flags to show off your screenshot. * Highlight your image with the light position control for shadow and lighting effects in the background. * Use any custom image as a background. (*) MAGIC IMPORT * Paste, Drop, Open or directly type in text that is automatically rendered as an attractive image. * Text and Markdown is converted to an image using themes provided. * Source Code is drawn with syntax highlighting. * Links to Social Posts produce social "cards" without having to crop a screenshot (X, BlueSky and Mastodon). * Apple Music, Apple Maps, App Store, YouTube and podcast links all create shareable card images. BATCH MODE (*) * Import many images in batch mode, apply the same style settings to all and see the changes instantly with automatic file naming. * Customize per-image settings like device frame, corner radius and privacy redactions. * Create framed or text-based image carousels by dropping/importing multiple files and drag out the resulting images directly into another app to post them. PRIVACY * Automatic detection of Identification, Financial information and Faces. * Always automatically hides Financial information. * Tap a button to hide a piece of information or show it. * Multiple redaction styles. THE PERFECT FRAME * Device frames always fit the resolution of the screenshot, no janky stretched or cropped images. * Add your own custom frame with a clear area where the screenshot should be — frame any images! * Use any image if no frame is required, or choose "No frame" if you prefer to go without. SHORTCUTS & SIRI * Automate batch processing with powerful Shortcuts actions to frame each screenshot in the input. * Many powerful Shortcut Intents: "Frame last screenshot", "Open Shareshot with most recent screenshot", "Frame Screenshots", "Frame Screenshots with a custom background", "Create Image from Text", "Create Image from Links" and "Create Image from Source Code". * Siri "App Shortcut" support for saying "New Shareshot" to frame the last screenshot, opens the app ready for you to tweak the background. (*) - Requires Pro For Terms of Use see: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Frame Screenshots at 4.7 against Hands Time's 4.5. Frame Screenshots also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 67%) and ratings volume (88 vs 13). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Hands Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Frame Screenshots sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Frame Screenshots holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frame Screenshots has 88 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Hands Time's written reviews are positive against 78% of Frame Screenshots's.
Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, Frame Screenshots every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hands Time | Frame Screenshots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 4.7 (88 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 77.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 88 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 248 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | yuhang lu | Montana Floss Co. |
Customer experience
Hands Time
Frame Screenshots
Bugs and requests
Hands Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Frame Screenshots
Reported bugs
4 issues- App doesn't see screenshots taken with Shortcuts
- Auto-detection fails for certain devices (e.g., MacBook Air)
- Landscape screenshots cause errors
- Frame packs not working unless metadata matches exactly
Requested features
11 requests- Ability to move the iPhone frame
- One-time payment option
- Option for video framing
- Support for custom export sizes
- Support for screen recordings
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- Animated backgrounds
- Copy and delete option for screenshots
- Support for multiple screenshots on one canvas
- Lifetime unlock option
- Mac App Store version
- Framing screen recordings
In-app purchases
Hands Time
- Time Premium Passport Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Hands Time Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
Frame Screenshots
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
Questions
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