Comparison

Tinker vs Things

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Things

Features
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A simple app for people who want to organize their things! Organize your tech, home, travel gear, office, closet, pantry or everything at once. Perfect for minimalists that want to keep track of everything they own. No subscriptions, no ads, just a one time price. Features: - Import items from CSV (add some demo items and export first to see how everything works!) - Import images with matching names from a folder - Export data as CSV or PDF - iCloud Syncing - Add your own categories - See your items at a glance with a list or grid view. Turn to the side for a Cover Flow like view. - Item fields include: name, quantity, price, importance, size, status, portability, location, link, notes, acquired date and more. - Attach files to items like receipts, manuals etc. - You can auto remove backgrounds from images by tapping on an image. - Smart lists with special fields for Home, Electronics, Books and Consumables — more coming. - Log all your tech gear with the Electronics list, add power or battery type, watts, attach manuals and more. - Organize your home belongings by room location. - Add reminder notifications for expiring items - Many sorting and filter options. - If you have a feature request, please email me and I will add it!

Screenshots

Tinker4 screens
Things4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tinker at Free against Things's $0.99. Things's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Tinker is free to download; Things costs $0.99 up front. Tinker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Things asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tinker versus Things: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinkerThings
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRasmus NielsenMaximos Angelakis

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tinker

One-time1
  • Unlock Premium$3.99
None

Things

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tinker free?
Tinker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Things free?
Things costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tinker or Things have ads?
Neither Tinker nor Things shows ads.

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