CheckTimeYo vs Verba Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
CheckTimeYo
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'CheckTimeYo' is a retro-looking clock app that displays the time, the time from cities around the world (489 of them) of your choice, a feed of your choice, a calendar, and today's moon phase. With 390 themes to choose from, you can even select a font to your liking. Download now! It's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases, and no catch! Using this app is easy. For many settings, there's no need to open the Settings screen. Just tap on the area of the screen where you want to make changes. For example, if you want to change the date format to your liking, simply tap on the date displayed on the screen.
Verba Clock
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Verba Clock tells the time the way people say it. No hands, no digits - a quiet grid of letters where the right words light up: IT IS TWENTY FIVE PAST TWELVE. FINISHES 18 crafted surfaces, from Deep Black and Stainless Steel to Gold, Rust, Waves and Metamorphite - plus two e-ink faces, Paper and Ink, rendered the way a real ink panel would: one ink, dithered letters, no glow. LANGUAGES 32 languages โ English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew. Every face follows how that language actually says the time. EVERYWHERE YOU GLANCE โข Home screen and lock screen widgets in every size โข StandBy โ a bedside word clock while charging โข Apple Watch app with a Smart Stack widget โข Dock mode: charging in landscape turns the phone into a dimmed night clock DETAILS THAT MATTER โข Two presentations: a wall-mounted clock face or edge-to-edge full bleed โข Word transitions: instant, fade, typewriter or blink โข Corner dots or a minute row for the in-between minutes โข Light play, brightness control, keep-awake, haptics PRIVATE BY DESIGN Verba Clock is fully offline. It makes no network requests, collects nothing, tracks nothing, and asks for no account. The only permission it uses is vibration for haptics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Verba Clock at 3 against CheckTimeYo's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | CheckTimeYo | Verba Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masayoshi Ueda | Filip Vitas |
In-app purchases
CheckTimeYo
No in-app purchases
Verba Clock
No in-app purchases









