Comparison

Grail vs Clock

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

Clock

Features
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Clock-it turns your Home Screen into a watch collection. 55+ meticulously crafted watch faces, each drawn entirely in code and rendered live, so every dial stays razor sharp on any iPhone or iPad, at any size. A LIVING MOVEMENT A seconds hand that glides, subdials that turn, moon phases that follow the real moon, and date windows that change at midnight. THE COLLECTION Chronographs, divers, pilot and field watches, dress watches and complications. Every piece comes with a short note on what makes it special. LUME, EXACTLY AS YOU SEE IT Double-tap any dial to see it glow, then tap Apply to put that look on your widget. Choose After Dark, Always or Never, and the app and your widget stay in step. YOUR WIDGET, YOUR WAY Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, Extra Large on iPad, plus Lock Screen widgets. Apply a watch in the app, or give each widget a watch of its own. MADE FOR IPAD A full-size watch in any orientation, a gallery that fills the screen, Split View and Stage Manager, and keyboard shortcuts. ALSO ON MAC A live watch on your desktop, with the same collection. A NEW WATCH EVERY DAY Turn on daily rotation and wear a different piece from the collection every day. THE ICON, ALIVE Place the Clock-it icon on your Home Screen as a widget, telling the time with live hands. DESIGNED FOR BATTERY LIFE Clock-it never runs in the background. Your widget is prepared in advance and simply displayed by iOS. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Clock-it collects no data at all.

Screenshots

Grail4 screens
Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Clock at daily against Grail's every 2 months. On price, ads, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grail ships an update every 2 months, Clock daily. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Grail versus Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrailClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReda HallalQubera

In-app purchases

None

Grail

No in-app purchases

None

Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grail free?
Grail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clock free?
Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grail or Clock have ads?
Neither Grail nor Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grail or Clock?
Grail ships an update every 2 months, and Clock daily. Most recently, Grail was updated on November 8, 2026 and Clock on October 31, 2026.

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