Comparison

Clock vs Author Career

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

Head to head
About

Clock

Challenge your timing abilities with two distinct game modes. Accurately stop the clock to match displayed milliseconds or rely on your internal sense of time to hit specific seconds.

Highlights
  • Two challenging game modes
  • Test millisecond accuracy
  • Develop inner clock skills
  • Simple, intuitive gameplay
  • Suitable for all ages
Features
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Test your timing skills by clocking at the right moment with two challenging modes! SHOW mode, where the goal is to clock as close to the displayed milliseconds and HIDE mode, where you rely on your inner clock to count to the right seconds!

About

Author Career

Build a writing career from scratch, managing finances, energy, and skills. Write across multiple genres, publish books, and grow your audience week by week. Track your progress and career milestones.

Highlights
  • Week-by-week career progression
  • Write various book formats
  • Manage energy, money, and skills
  • Publish books and grow audience
  • Track royalties and reviews
  • Genre-specific fan bases
Features
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Start with a blank page, a little cash, and one week at a time. In Author Career, you build a writing life from the ground up. Choose what to write, manage your energy, improve your skills, publish your books, and watch your audience grow across genres. Every week brings a decision. Work a job to cover expenses, train your craft, draft a new manuscript, edit a book, submit to publishers, or launch your next release. Each choice shapes your money, fans, skills, reviews, and long-term career. Write across Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Literary Fiction, Horror, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, and Adventure. Pick formats, generate titles, set prices, compare publishing paths, and track the results as your catalog grows. Features: Build a week-by-week author career Write short stories, novellas, novels, and epics Manage energy, money, debt, expenses, and career tradeoffs Improve skills like creativity, grammar, plotting, character development, prose, and discipline Edit manuscripts, choose prices, and prepare book launches Grow general and genre-specific fan bases Track book history, royalties, reviews, milestones, and yearly progress Play a focused single-player writing career sim Build your catalog, find your audience, and see how far your author career can go.

Screenshots

Clock4 screens
Author Career4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clock at 5.0 against Author Career's 4.5. Clock also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Author Career's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Clock's written reviews are positive against 83% of Author Career's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Clock versus Author Career: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClockAuthor Career
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB41 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPRACTA LLC.Matthew Green

Customer experience

Clock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Author Career

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Author Career

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clock free?
Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Author Career free?
Author Career is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clock or Author Career?
Clock is rated higher. Clock averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Author Career averages 4.5 from 6 ratings.
Do Clock or Author Career have ads?
Author Career shows ads; Clock does not.

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