Comparison

Hands Time vs Playlist Cover Maker

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

Playlist Cover Maker

Design custom retro CD artwork for your playlists. Reclaim the personal touch of crafting unique visual identities for your music, moving beyond generic streaming platform aesthetics. Express your creativity with authentic CD styles and freeform drawing tools.

Highlights
  • Authentic CD style selection
  • Freeform drawing and doodling
  • Customizable design options
  • Export playlist cover art
  • Retro aesthetic
Features
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In a world where streaming giants flatten every musical experience into corporate sameness - algorithm-fed, auto-generated, and branded by default - Burnit offers a small act of rebellion: the right to make your music yours again. This isn’t just an app. It’s a refusal. A way to reclaim the personal touch we once had when we scribbled titles on CDs with markers, when mixtapes were handmade gifts, not metadata containers. Burnit revives that era, not with nostalgia alone, but with tools that let you reassert creativity over curation. How it works: - Choose from authentic CD styles - scratched, shiny, faded, bold - Draw, doodle, and scrawl like you did in your bedroom, Sharpie in hand - Customize freely - no templates, no constraints, just your vision - Export your cover and reclaim the visual identity of your playlists Today’s platforms ask you to accept whatever image they assign to your songs - stock art, blurred backgrounds, or faceless icons. But music is identity. It’s personal. It deserves design, not default. Burnit is about reclaiming that visual authorship. It invites you to resist the aesthetics of automation and bring back the messiness, the tactility, the joy of crafting something by hand - even digitally. You don’t need to remember the last CD you burned to feel what this app brings back. All you need is a playlist you care about - and the courage to make it look like it belongs to you. Burnit is a quiet protest in the face of digital sameness. It’s a design tool. It’s a memory machine. It’s yours. Need support or have questions? Contact us at burnit@heyvalentin.club.

Screenshots

Hands Time4 screens
Playlist Cover Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Playlist Cover Maker at 5.0 against Hands Time's 4.5. Playlist Cover Maker also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hands Time sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Playlist Cover Maker sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Playlist Cover Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Hands Time's written reviews are positive against 100% of Playlist Cover Maker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, Playlist Cover Maker weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hands Time versus Playlist Cover Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHands TimePlaylist Cover Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeryuhang luValentin Galmand

Customer experience

Hands Time

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

Playlist Cover Maker

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
7 purchases

Playlist Cover Maker

Subscriptions5
  • Burnit Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Burnit Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Burnit Pro - Yearly$8.991 Year
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  • Burnit Pro - Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Burnit Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Promo Offer!$8.99
  • Unlock All Features$19.99

Questions

Is Hands Time free?
Hands Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Playlist Cover Maker free?
Playlist Cover Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hands Time or Playlist Cover Maker?
Playlist Cover Maker is rated higher. Hands Time averages 4.5 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Playlist Cover Maker averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Hands Time or Playlist Cover Maker have ads?
Neither Hands Time nor Playlist Cover Maker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hands Time or Playlist Cover Maker?
Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and Playlist Cover Maker weekly. Most recently, Hands Time was updated on November 3, 2026 and Playlist Cover Maker on November 4, 2026.

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