Comparison

Hands Time vs SMIRK

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 7 Themes, 10+ Styles
  • Customizable backgrounds with photos/colors
  • Ad-free minimalist design
  • Animated clock hands
  • Light and Dark modes
  • Real-time local weather
Features
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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

About

SMIRK

Create and play games with friends using a powerful in-app editor. Design simulators, obbies, shooters, and more, then share them instantly. Discover and engage with games made by the community.

Highlights
  • In-app game editor
  • Create simulators, obbies, shooters
  • Social game feed
  • Like, comment, and share games
  • Templates and 3D object library
  • Instant game sharing
  • Cross-platform sharing
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Smirk is a new way to make games with your friends. Use our super powerful game editor to challenge your friends and tell interesting stories. Make simulators, obbies, shooters, and all kinds of games. Instantly share and see who has what it takes to beat. FEED OF GAMES Play a feed of awesome games made by your friends and the community. Like, Comment, and Share the ones you like. Comment your highest score and see who’s the best of all time. 3D GAME CANVAS Make your own games with our easy-to-use game editor in the app. Add images, text, and 3d objects to make cool scenes and games. TEMPLATES & 3D OBJECTS Start with awesome templates like “The Floor is Lava” and tons of cool objects from the object library. SHARE ANYWHERE Post your game to the profile and anyone can play instantly. Share a link to your game so friends on other platforms can play too.

Screenshots

Hands Time4 screens
SMIRK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SMIRK at none against Hands Time's 3. SMIRK also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (74 vs 13). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hands Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SMIRK asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SMIRK holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SMIRK has 74 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 75% of SMIRK's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, SMIRK every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hands Time versus SMIRK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHands TimeSMIRK
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings)4.6 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1374 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB225 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developeryuhang luSmirk Software Company

Customer experience

Hands Time

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative26.7%

SMIRK

All ratings38 ratings
Positive97.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hands Time

Subscriptions2
  • Time Premium Passport Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Hands Time Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$19.99
None

SMIRK

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hands Time free?
Hands Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SMIRK free?
SMIRK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hands Time or SMIRK?
SMIRK is rated higher. Hands Time averages 4.5 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while SMIRK averages 4.6 from 74 ratings.
Do Hands Time or SMIRK have ads?
Neither Hands Time nor SMIRK shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hands Time or SMIRK?
Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and SMIRK every 4 days. Most recently, Hands Time was updated on October 24, 2026 and SMIRK on October 23, 2026.

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