Clocks vs Chronora
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clocks
Transform your device into a beautiful clock and weather display. Offers customizable clocks, animated backgrounds, and font options for a personalized experience. It's a private, ad-free alternative to standby modes, with optional matching screensavers for macOS.
- Animated backgrounds
- Customizable clock variations
- Font and color options
- Private and ad-free
- MacOS screensaver sync
- Shortcuts support
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The Clocks app transforms your phone, tablet, or mac into a beautiful clock display, perfect for any home office, bedroom, or studio. It's perfect as an alternative to Standby Mode with even more options: ◎ 28+ gorgeous and intentionally designed animated backgrounds ◎ 15+ variations of clocks you can pair in any combination ◎ Some font and font color options for more personalization ◎ Private, no ads. Designed to be simple and stunning. ◎ Pro Park includes a download for matching screen savers on MacOS so your display can match across your entire work setup. ◎ Three clocks and three backgrounds are usable for free! ◎ Best used on a MagSafe charger, but also works on phones without it. ◎ Shortcuts support to allow Clocks to open automatically when connected to a charger Does Clocks open automatically? Not by default, but within Settings there's a tutorial on how to set it up using Shortcuts. Does Clocks replace Standby mode? We think Clocks is better fitted for daytime use and the official Standby for night time. Will you release more packs in the future? Yes! I plan on designing more backgrounds and clocks in future updates, some which will be free some which will be paid (but affordable). Roadmap - Coming soon: - Timers - More font options and settings
Chronora
Easily track significant dates with a clean, minimal interface. Count down to future events or count up from past milestones, personalizing each entry with custom colors. Ideal for remembering birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, and other life achievements.
- Count up or down in days
- Support for multiple events
- Customizable event colors
- Clean and minimal interface
- Accurate day tracking
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Chronora is a simple and elegant way to track the days that matter. Count down to upcoming events or count up from important dates. Add multiple events, personalize them with color, and instantly see how many days remain or have passed. Perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, vacations, goals, and life milestones. Features • Count up or down in days • Multiple events • Custom colors • Clean, minimal interface • Accurate day tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chronora at 100% against Clocks's 59%. Chronora also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Clocks's advantage is ratings volume (476 vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads 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. Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chronora asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chronora holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clocks has 476 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Clocks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chronora's.
Clocks ships an update every 5 days, Chronora every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clocks | Chronora |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (476 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 476 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Destefanis | Arsham Mehrani |
Customer experience
Clocks
Chronora
Bugs and requests
Clocks
Reported bugs
1 issue- Infinite loop of pop-up ads when trying to use the app
Requested features
3 requests- Timer with start/stop functionality
- Numbered screen savers for easier selection
- Widget support
Chronora
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clocks
- Clocks Pro Pack$3.99
Chronora
No in-app purchases
