Comparison

Hands Time vs Peelify

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

Peelify

Features
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Peelify brings the feeling of real stickers to your screen. Choose any photo, illustration, or design, and transform it into a digital sticker you can actually peel. Unlike traditional sticker makers, Peelify creates a unique interactive experience: lift the edge, peel it away, and enjoy the satisfying feeling of removing a real sticker. Your images are not just stickers. They are stickers you can touch and peel. Features: • Turn any image into a digital sticker • Realistic sticker peeling experience • Interactive and satisfying animations • Create your own sticker collection • Perfect for journaling, creativity, and sharing Create something. Then peel it away.

Screenshots

Hands Time4 screens
Peelify4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hands Time and Peelify are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 Peelify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, Peelify every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hands Time versus Peelify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHands TimePeelify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeryuhang lu玮华 姚

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
1 purchases

Peelify

One-time1
  • Life Member$1.69

Questions

Is Hands Time free?
Hands Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Peelify free?
Peelify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hands Time or Peelify have ads?
Neither Hands Time nor Peelify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hands Time or Peelify?
Hands Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and Peelify every 9 days. Most recently, Hands Time was updated on September 27, 2026 and Peelify on September 8, 2026.

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