Grail vs TimeLocked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grail
Transform your devices into stylish clock displays with detailed horological designs. Customize watch faces with various hands, bezels, and colors to create a unique look for your home screen, nightstand, or car dashboard.
- Detailed horological watch face designs
- Customizable hands, bezels, and colors
- Home screen and desktop widgets
- StandBy mode bedside clock
- CarPlay dashboard clock
- Growing collection of watch models
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Grail watches for your screen. Grail turns the watches most of us only dream about into clock widgets you’ll actually use. On your home screen, on your nightstand in StandBy, and on your dashboard in CarPlay. It started simple: a collection of widgets based on wrist and pocket watches that offer an interesting design, are hard to get your hands on, or both. Every face is drawn with real horological detail, and built to be customized. Swap handsets, bezels, case metals, dials and colorways until it’s unmistakably yours. THE COLLECTION • Model One: Hours and minutes, inspired by Dirty Dozen field watches • Orbital Regulator: Hours, minutes and weekday orbiting the minute axis • DS-9000: Vintage digital display with time, day and date • Retro²: Jumping hour with retrograde minute, inspired by speedometers …and the collection keeps growing. WORKS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES • Home Screen & Desktop: Small and large sizes for your iPhone, iPad and Mac • StandBy: A proper bedside clock when your iPhone’s on its side • CarPlay: A mechanical dial on your dashboard MADE TO TINKER Broad Arrow or Dauphine hands. Stainless, titanium, DLC or gold. Pumpkin, Lime, Grape or Blueberry. Mix it however you like.
TimeLocked
This app helps you resist impulsive decisions by locking away sensitive information, like passwords or recovery codes, for a set duration. It ensures you can only access your data after a chosen waiting period, protecting you from your own immediate desires.
- Lock passwords, codes, and card PINs
- Set custom waiting periods (hours, days, weeks)
- Timed by iCloud servers for reliability
- Encrypts stored data with AES-256-GCM
- Optional master password for added security
- Pause tab for immediate temptations
- Write messages to your future self
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Lock a password, a code or a card PIN away from yourself. It opens only after the wait you chose — an hour, a day, a week. No friend needs to hold it for you. HOW IT WORKS Name it, put the thing in, pick the wait. When you want it back, ask: the wait starts then, and the entry opens when it's over. Lock it again and the next time waits too. Nothing opens immediately — that's the point. The wait is timed by Apple's iCloud servers, not by your phone's clock. Make it longer whenever you like and it applies at once; make it shorter and the new length only takes effect once the old one has passed. WHAT PEOPLE LOCK AWAY • A social media password, right after changing it • Recovery codes and backup codes • A card PIN or a card number • The login for a shop or a game • Photos you keep going back to • A seed phrase — keep your own offline backup too. TimeLocked is a delay, not a backup. WHAT IT PROTECTS — AND WHAT IT DOESN'T TimeLocked protects you from you: from the version of you who wants it back at 2am. It is not a safe against someone else. Anyone who can unlock your iPhone can open what's past its wait, unless you add a master password. We have no server of our own and can't read what you lock — so we can't open it for you either. Keep an offline copy of anything you can't afford to lose. WHERE YOUR THINGS ARE KEPT What's inside an entry is encrypted with AES-256-GCM the moment you save. Entries and their waits live on this phone and in your private iCloud. The name you give an entry is not encrypted, so don't put the password itself in the name. Photos and voice notes aren't synced to iCloud: deleting the app deletes them, unless you restore from a device backup. For an entry that's in iCloud, deleting the app doesn't end the wait — the key stays in your Keychain and the clock is Apple's. With iCloud sync off, entries aren't synced either — but every wait still needs your iCloud account: each request to open and each time check is a small record in your private iCloud, with nothing of what you locked in it. The app opens with Face ID or your iPhone passcode, and you can add a six-digit code of its own. A master password takes the key out of iCloud and puts it behind a password only you know. FOR THE MOMENT ITSELF The Pause tab is for what you're about to do: a purchase, a message you'd regret, anything else. Send a link straight in from Safari or a shop with the Share button. It waits as long as you chose, then comes back and asks whether you still want it. What you let go is counted, with the money you didn't spend. Write a few words to your future self while your head is clear. The letter is encrypted and travels with the entry; a voice note isn't synced to iCloud. PREMIUM Premium adds two things: closing the apps you pick while something waits — or every night on your schedule — and keeping more than three things in the Vault. Screen Time does the closing on your phone; TimeLocked never sees which apps you use, only the ones you pick. Every wait length, and opening what you locked, stays outside Premium. — Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://vasilinoff.github.io/timelocked-legal/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grail at none against TimeLocked's 3. Grail also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). TimeLocked's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. TimeLocked sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Grail asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Grail against 5.0 for TimeLocked. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Grail ships an update every 3 months, TimeLocked weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Grail | TimeLocked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reda Hallal | Vasily Ponomarev |
Customer experience
Grail
TimeLocked
In-app purchases
Grail
No in-app purchases
TimeLocked
- 1 Month Premium14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- 1 Year Premium14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$29.99









