Comparison

CheckTimeYo vs Verba Clock

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

Head to head
About

CheckTimeYo

Features
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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.

About

Verba Clock

Features
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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 โ€ข Home screen and lock screen widgets in every size โ€ข StandBy โ€” a bedside word clock while charging โ€ข Apple Watch app with a Smart Stack widget โ€ข Dock mode: charging in landscape turns the phone into a dimmed night clock DETAILS THAT MATTER โ€ข Two presentations: a wall-mounted clock face or edge-to-edge full bleed โ€ข Word transitions: instant, fade, typewriter or blink โ€ข Corner dots or a minute row for the in-between minutes โ€ข 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.

Screenshots

CheckTimeYo4 screens
Verba Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
CheckTimeYo versus Verba Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckTimeYoVerba Clock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS17.417.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size12 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasayoshi UedaFilip Vitas

In-app purchases

None

CheckTimeYo

No in-app purchases

None

Verba Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CheckTimeYo free?
CheckTimeYo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Verba Clock free?
Verba Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CheckTimeYo or Verba Clock have ads?
Neither CheckTimeYo nor Verba Clock shows ads.

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