FaceClock Pro vs SimpleCoat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FaceClock Pro
This app announces the current time at specified intervals in multiple languages. It also offers customizable clock faces, background images, and alarm clock functionality with music player controls and a battery indicator.
- Announce the time in multiple languages
- Customizable clock faces and backgrounds
- Alarm clock with snooze
- Music player control
- Battery indicator
- Today's widget
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful analog bedside clock, with alarms, weather, a sleep timer and widgets. Now rebuilt for iOS 26. Description: FaceClock turns your iPhone or iPad into an analog clock you'll actually want on your nightstand, your desk or your kitchen counter. Twenty clock faces Pick from four groups: Minimal (bars, dots, rings), Numerals (including Roman, Arabic-Indic and Chinese numbers), 24-Hour dials, and Counter-Clockwise faces that run backwards. Choose a color theme, including a dim red Night theme that won't keep you awake, and a light theme for bright rooms. Make it yours Set any wall color or use your own photo as the background, then drag and pinch to frame it. Add the date, the digital time in 12- or 24-hour form, and the current temperature. Drag up or down anywhere on the clock to dim the screen for night-time. A real alarm Built on Apple's alarm system, so it rings even when your phone is locked or on silent. Choose the time, which days it repeats and how long snooze lasts. Sleep timer Count down with white noise, or an alarm at the end. The timer keeps going on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Weather on the face Local temperature and conditions from Apple Weather, right on the dial. Visual effects behind the clock can follow your weather: sunlight, fog, rain or snow. Hear the time Have the clock speak the time on the hour, half hour or quarter hour, in your choice of language. Or just double-tap the clock whenever you want to know. Widgets Clock widgets for the Home Screen in every size, including extra large on iPad, plus a minimal clock for the Lock Screen. They follow the clock settings you chose in the app. Also included Now Playing controls for the Music app · battery ring with charging status · keep-screen-awake for bedside use · full iPad support in portrait and landscape · English and Japanese.
SimpleCoat
Design custom wallpapers with precise color control and overlay options. Create single-color or gradient backgrounds, and add built-in or personal patterns for a unique parallax effect. Export your creations directly to your device's camera roll.
- Precise RGB color control
- Single-color and gradient backgrounds
- Built-in pattern overlays
- Custom pattern import from Camera Roll
- Parallax effect options
- Export to Camera Roll
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Create simple and elegant wallpapers with the flick of your finger. + Take precise control of the red, green and blue components of your wallpaper colors. + Create single-colored or gradient-colored wallpapers. + Select light or dark built-in patterns to superimpose over your wallpaper for a parallax effect. + Select patterns from your Camera Roll to superimpose over your wallpaper. + Export your creations to your Camera Roll to use on your lock and home screens.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SimpleCoat at Free against FaceClock Pro's $2.99. SimpleCoat also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). FaceClock Pro's advantage is ratings volume (147 vs 4). On review sentiment, 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
SimpleCoat is free to download; FaceClock Pro costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimpleCoat holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FaceClock Pro has 147 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of FaceClock Pro's written reviews are positive against 80% of SimpleCoat's.
FaceClock Pro ships an update every 2 months, SimpleCoat every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FaceClock Pro | SimpleCoat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (147 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 147 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iReka Soft | Joshua Ross |
Customer experience
FaceClock Pro
SimpleCoat
In-app purchases
FaceClock Pro
No in-app purchases
SimpleCoat
No in-app purchases
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