Party Tools vs Brutal Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Party Tools
This app offers a collection of quick decision-making tools for games and social gatherings. It includes features like dice rolling, coin flipping, name picking, and a bottle spinner to keep the fun going.
- Dice roll
- Coin flip
- Spin the bottle
- Name picker
- Quick picker
- Customizable color themes
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Party Tools puts the essentials for game night in one polished app. Roll dice, flip a coin, pick a random number or person, spin a custom wheel, choose who goes first, run a timer, and keep score without passing around a pile of separate apps. PARTY SESSION Save your players once, split them into balanced teams, and reuse the same roster across compatible tools. WOULD YOU RATHER Explore 1,260 family-friendly cards across Kids, Family, and Teen age groups. Choose from five simple topic categories, save favorites, reset a deck anytime, and avoid repeats until the deck is complete. LIVE AT A GLANCE Keep an active score or timer visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. End an activity directly when the game is over. PARTY TOOLS PLUS Personalize the whole app with premium themes and coordinated tool skins, including RAD Space and RAD Weather packs with matching backgrounds, coins, dice, wheels, and app icons. Party Tools is designed for family game nights, road trips, classrooms, hangouts, and any moment that needs a fair choice or a little more fun.
Brutal Time
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Brutal Time turns your iPhone into a brutalist desk clock. Put it on a charger and it fills the screen, edge to edge, with nothing but type. It tells time without decoration, distraction, or gimmicks. ON THE CHARGER StandBy widgets for every clock face, and widgets for the Home Screen. A full-screen, StandBy-style display for the app itself, with the status bar hidden so the clock owns the whole screen. Add a Shortcut and it opens by itself the moment you plug in. Always-On keeps it lit while charging and dims it after a few seconds, then lets the phone sleep again as soon as you unplug. FOUR TYPOGRAPHIC FACES Four distinct designs, each built on a different typographic system: digits locked to a ruled grid, editorial Swiss with a red accent, oversized poster glyphs cropped by the frame, and mono type over a dot-indexed field. Each reads as words or numerals, in dark or light, portrait or landscape. UNLOCK AMBIENT MOTION WITH THE FULL EDITION Each face can come alive. Continuous, ambient motion runs through the type — letters that breathe, sway, and resolve on their own unhurried rhythm, with several motions for every face. Calm and deliberate, never a screensaver. Ambient Motion is the only paid feature, and the Full Edition is a one-time purchase — buy it once, keep it forever. Everything else is free: every clock face, every typeface, every widget, the full-screen display and Always-On. Also included: - Three typefaces per face - Custom accent colors - Home Screen and StandBy widgets - No subscription. No ads. Ever. Brutal Time is shaped by brutalist design principles: visible structure, a restrained palette, and the removal of unnecessary ornament. Time is shown as type, grid, and rhythm — clear, functional, and deliberate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Brutal Time at every 3 weeks against Party Tools's every 6 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Party Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Brutal Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Party Tools ships an update every 6 weeks, Brutal Time every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Party Tools | Brutal Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Samuel Rozzi | Forager Lab LLC |
In-app purchases
Party Tools
- Party Tools Plus$0.99
Brutal Time
- Full Edition$4.99
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