Tinker vs GENGENGEN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tinker
Design and personalize your phone's home screen with custom watch face widgets. Choose from pre-made assets or build your own unique timepiece to match your style. Set up your custom widget in seconds for a personalized look.
- Design custom watch face widgets
- Use pre-defined assets
- Build widgets from scratch
- Customize backgrounds, hands, and centerpieces
- Import custom assets
- Add widgets to home screen
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Your phone deserves more than the same default clock. Create beautiful custom watch faces for your home screen, desk setup, and standby mode that match your style, mood, or aesthetic. + Start With a Style You Love Browse curated assets or build everything from scratch. Choose backgrounds, clock hands, and centerpieces to create your perfect combination. + Customize Every Detail Go minimal, retro, futuristic, or bold. Mix and match elements to design a watch face that feels uniquely yours. + Choose How Time Moves Customize the movement of your watch face with smooth sweeping hands, classic ticking motion, or precise chronograph-inspired movement for a more authentic feel. + Perfect for Widgets, Desk Mode, and StandBy Add your creations directly to your home screen, use them as stylish desk clocks, or turn your phone into a beautiful bedside display with StandBy mode. + Made for Creativity Create something subtle or completely original. Import your own assets and craft watch faces that no one else has. + A Watch Face That Feels Personal Your watch face becomes part of your daily setup, greeting you every time you check your phone. Clean, customizable, and designed entirely by you.
GENGENGEN
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I don't know how I came up with this app's name, but I know I really needed this app when I was scrolling Twitter and TikTok and kept running into words that took me 15 minutes to decode. Now you can discover new words too and collect them like cards in this beautiful and sensational app that we've built with my friend together. Add GGG widget. A new word drops on your home screen every day. Ask any word in app. Save the ones you like as a card, skip the ones you don't. It's your collection. That's it. No ads, no tracking. Just words. GGG runs on a small annual subscription only — but you get a 3-day free trial to vibe with it first. Payment kicks in after the trial ends and renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Privacy Policy: https://gengengen.app/policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tinker at every 3 months against GENGENGEN's every 6 months. GENGENGEN's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Tinker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GENGENGEN sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tinker ships an update every 3 months, GENGENGEN every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Tinker | GENGENGEN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rasmus Nielsen | Kirill Rodin |
In-app purchases
Tinker
- Unlock Premium$3.99
GENGENGEN
- GENGENGEN SUB3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- GENGENGEN PREMIUM$24.991 Year
