Comparison

Grail vs Atelier Watch

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

Head to head
About

Grail

Customize your home screen, bedside display, and car dashboard with elegant analog and digital clock widgets. Choose from a growing collection of watch-inspired designs and personalize every detail to create a unique look.

Highlights
  • Analog and digital watch face designs
  • Home screen and desktop widgets
  • StandBy mode bedside clock
  • CarPlay dashboard clock
  • Customizable hands, bezels, and colors
  • Growing collection of unique models
Features
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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.

About

Atelier Watch

Features
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Atelier Watch puts a mechanical watch dial on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy. Every dial is drawn in code: the bezel, the sunburst, the sculpted hands. It stays sharp at any size instead of being a photograph of a watch. And for a second time zone there is a proper GMT hand — or two dials side by side, a city named under each. FOUR COLLECTIONS A collection is a different shape of watch, not a different color. • Dress — hobnail bezel, applied batons doubled at twelve, dauphine hands (free) • Diver — rotating 60-minute bezel, luminous pip at zero, sword hands (Pro) • Pilot — thin bezel, large numerals, triangle and two dots at twelve (Pro) • GMT — fixed 24-hour day-night bezel and a fourth hand for a second zone (Pro) NINE FINISHES Rose Gold · Ivory, Steel · Slate, Yellow Gold · Champagne, Platinum · Midnight, Noir · Onyx, Steel · Black, Steel · Navy, Steel · Forest, Gilt · Black. Every finish works with every collection, and each widget you place can carry its own. THREE WIDGETS • Atelier Watch — the dial, with a calendar panel at the medium size • Dial Only — the dial alone, as large as the widget allows • Dual Time — two dials, two cities, each on its own time (Pro) WHEREVER YOU NEED THE TIME Small, Medium and Large on the Home Screen, three Lock Screen shapes, and StandBy for a bedside watch. COMPLICATIONS (PRO) A moon phase at six, calculated from the date alone — no location, no network. A short engraving below twelve, where a maker signs. Four lume colors. And a night mode that turns the StandBy dial dim red, so a bedside watch doesn't light up the room. A SECOND TIME ZONE, TWO WAYS (PRO) The GMT collection does it the way a travel watch does: a fourth hand read against a 24-hour day-night bezel. The Dual Time widget does it with two dials side by side, a city named under each, every dial running on its own zone. Any of some 600 time zones, 91 major cities listed before you type, and a mark on the ones already into tomorrow or still on yesterday. NO SECONDS HAND By design. iOS refreshes a widget once a minute, so a seconds hand would sit frozen. The dials are built around hour and minute hands instead. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Atelier Pro is one purchase, not a subscription. The Dress collection stays free in full — all nine finishes, both dial widgets, every size, Lock Screen and StandBy. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no network, no tracking, no data collection. Nothing leaves your device.

Screenshots

Grail4 screens
Atelier Watch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grail at none against Atelier Watch's 1. Atelier Watch's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Atelier Watch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grail asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grail ships an update every 2 months, Atelier Watch weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grail versus Atelier Watch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrailAtelier Watch
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReda HallalYechiel Ben David

In-app purchases

None

Grail

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Atelier Watch

One-time1
  • Atelier Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Grail free?
Grail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Atelier Watch free?
Atelier Watch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grail or Atelier Watch have ads?
Neither Grail nor Atelier Watch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grail or Atelier Watch?
Grail ships an update every 2 months, and Atelier Watch weekly. Most recently, Grail was updated on November 8, 2026 and Atelier Watch on November 10, 2026.

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