Noctis vs Dessau Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noctis
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Noctis redesigns the perception of time. It transforms your iPhone or iPad into an essential, refined and elegantly animated display clock. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, Noctis offers a distraction-free experience where every second flows naturally. Key features: - Minimalist digital clock with smooth updates. - Animated background with floating capsules or dynamic circles. - Full customization: choose colors, font weight and width, animations and visual theme. - Optimized landscape mode for a perfect horizontal experience. - Support for light, dark and auto theme. Designed for calm, built to last. Discover a new way to experience time.A new way to experience time. Noctis transforms your device into an elegant and distraction-free visual experience.
Dessau Clock
This app offers a highly customizable modernist clock experience. Users can personalize dial plates, materials, hands, and sounds, with a special night mode and widgets for home and lock screens. It provides a permanent unlock for all features without subscriptions.
- Customizable dial plates and materials
- Variety of hands and finishes
- Recorded movement sounds with haptic feedback
- Night mode with lume colors
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Dual time display
- Permanent unlock with one-time purchase
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A clock, reduced to what it needs. Dessau Clock draws every dial in code at the moment you look at it. There is not one photograph of a clock inside it — the plate, the printing, the hands and the ring are geometry, so they stay sharp at any size on any screen. WHAT IS FREE, FOR GOOD One complete clock. Chrome Yellow under Bayer printing, baton hands, a hairline bezel and a jewelled Swiss escapement you can hear and feel. No advertising, no interruptions, nothing that expires. It is not a trial. THE WORKSHOP • 59 dial plates, ten of them complete objects — plate, material, printing, hands, ring and sound applied in one tap • Real materials: quartersawn oak, Carrara marble, terrazzo, pigskin leather, canvas, cork and brushed aluminium. Each one a scan, not a pattern • Five printing programmes, eight sets of hands, five second hands, five finishes, four bezels • Fourteen recorded movements — a jewelled Swiss escapement, an oak pendulum, a typebar, a glass rim — each with its own tuned haptic • Two clocks, two cities, side by side, built and coloured completely separately AFTER DARK A night face that glows, with twelve lume colours and a sharp mode that turns the bloom off entirely. Follow the system appearance, or pin it to day or night. Left running on a charger, the whole face drifts a couple of points across the screen — far too slowly to see. A display ages where it is lit, and a clock left on overnight is the one image most likely to leave a mark. WIDGETS Every size, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, and in StandBy. Each widget picks its own plate, material, hands, glow, city and background. The second hand really ticks, once a second, without the app running. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, nothing measured. The dials, cities and sounds you choose never leave your device. The only thing that does is your purchase. Universal — one buy covers iPhone and iPad. DESSAU CLOCK PRO Pro unlocks every dial, material, printing programme, hand set, bezel, finish, escapement and tick sound, plus dual time and the twelve night glows. One purchase: $9.99, once. It includes every dial the app ever adds. No subscription, no free trial, nothing that renews. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. There is nothing to cancel and nothing to manage afterwards — the unlock is permanent, and it restores on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. Terms of Use: https://dessauclock.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://dessauclock.vercel.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dessau Clock at Free against Noctis's $1.99. Noctis's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). 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
Dessau Clock is free to download; Noctis costs $1.99 up front. Dessau Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Noctis asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Noctis | Dessau Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #193 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Antonio Stilla | Trevor Ringle |
In-app purchases
Noctis
No in-app purchases
Dessau Clock
- Dessau Clock Pro — Lifetime$9.99









