Clock vs Author Career
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Two challenging game modes
- Test millisecond accuracy
- Develop inner clock skills
- Simple, intuitive gameplay
- Suitable for all ages
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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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Clock | Author Career |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | PRACTA LLC. | Matthew Green |
Customer experience
Clock
Author Career
In-app purchases
Clock
No in-app purchases
Author Career
No in-app purchases









