Comparison

BellsClock vs Ahead

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

Head to head
About

BellsClock

Easily create and manage custom school bell schedules. Import schedules from CSV files or websites, and export your own. Personalize screen colors and navigate with a hamburger menu.

Highlights
  • Customizable bell schedules
  • Add/delete class periods
  • Modify start/end times
  • Import from CSV/web
  • Export to CSV
  • Personalize screen color
  • Hamburger menu navigation
Features
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Version 2 update: * Navigation among pages is done by the hamburger menu. * The screen color can be modified and personalized. * Individual bell schedules can be exported to Comma Separated Value (CSV) text format. Details: You can customize a bell schedule by adding or deleting class periods, modifying their start and end times, adding or deleting whole schedules, and modifying the names of the periods. School bell schedules can be imported from a Comma Separated Values text file located on the device or, for school-wide distribution of a set of schedules, from a Web site. The CSV file format is simple: - Quotation marks are optional. - A schedule record precedes the set of period records. - Period record format is periodname,start HH:MM,end HH:MM HH can be 24 hour or 12 hour; simply add AM or PM for 12 hour times. - Sample file: # Comment lines have leading hash mark # Next line is a schedule name (no colon or comma) Regular # These are period records name-of-period,HH:MM,HH:MM Home Room,7:55,8:05 1st Period,8:08,8:48 2nd Period,8:51,9:31 Break,9:31,9:41 3rd Period,9:44,10:24 4th Period,10:27,11:07 5th Period,11:10,11:50 Lunch,11:53,12:33PM 6th Period,12:36,13:16 7th Period,1:19PM,1:59PM 8th Period,14:02,14:42 Office Time,2:42p,15:15 # Next schedule A.M. Assembly Home Room,7:55,8:03 Assembly,8:05,9:15 1st Period,9:18,9:51 # And so on.....

About

Ahead

Easily track upcoming events like trips, birthdays, and holidays with customizable countdowns. Display these important dates on your home screen with glanceable widgets, so you never miss a moment.

Highlights
  • Recurring countdowns
  • Built-in holiday calendars
  • Customizable card styling
  • Home screen widgets
  • Sync across devices
Features
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You're excited about that upcoming trip/party/holiday! Ahead keeps the dates you care about in view. Create countdowns for trips, birthdays, launches, anniversaries, deadlines, and the holidays you never want to miss. Ahead gives each date a clear card, a flexible schedule, and widgets that make your next moment glanceable without opening the app. What you can do: • Create recurring countdowns for daily, monthly, or annual events. • Add holiday countdowns from built-in country, seasonal, and religious calendars. • Choose actual or observed holiday dates where available. • Style each card with gradients, text color, icons, and optional artwork. • Choose your own artwork from Photos. • Pin one, two, or four countdowns in configurable widgets. • Keep countdowns synced between iPhone and iPad and available to widgets. Ahead is built for the small moments and the big ones: the flight you booked, the birthday you nearly forgot, the launch date you are counting toward, and the holidays that deserve their own place on your screen.

Screenshots

BellsClock2 screens
Ahead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ahead at 100% against BellsClock's 50%. Ahead also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). BellsClock's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ahead holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BellsClock has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of BellsClock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ahead's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BellsClock versus Ahead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBellsClockAhead
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancis GolazeskiJust About Normal, LLC

Customer experience

BellsClock

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Ahead

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BellsClock

No in-app purchases

None

Ahead

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BellsClock free?
BellsClock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ahead free?
Ahead is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BellsClock or Ahead?
Ahead is rated higher. BellsClock averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Ahead averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BellsClock or Ahead have ads?
Neither BellsClock nor Ahead shows ads.

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