Comparison

Shifter vs PlainTick Flip Clock

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

Head to head
About

Shifter

Features
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A app that can track your wage and hours and tell you when you have worked, how much you are owned and give you a rundown of your work

About

PlainTick Flip Clock

A full-screen clock with flip animations, customizable skins, and timing tools for iPhone and iPad. It offers timers, focus sessions, and widgets for your home and lock screens.

Highlights
  • Full-screen clock with flip animations
  • Customizable skins and layouts
  • Timers and focus sessions (Pomodoro)
  • Home screen and lock screen widgets
  • Live Activities support
  • Automatic night dimming
Features
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Make time easy to read with PlainTick Flip Clock. A quiet full-screen clock for your iPhone and iPad, with flip animations, dark and light skins, and tools for everyday timing. CLOCK • Portrait and landscape layouts • Optional seconds, date and current weather • 12-hour or 24-hour time and a choice of time zone • Sixteen skins, including classic, outline, geometric and handwritten styles • Automatic night dimming based on your device’s local time TIMERS AND FOCUS • Count up, count down or set a target date and time • Start, pause, resume and reset • Pomodoro work and break sessions with adjustable lengths • Optional timer notifications, daily alarms and hourly chimes • Optional ambient audio WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES • Classic, compact and calendar Home Screen widgets • Widget seconds follow your Show seconds setting • Lock Screen widgets and supported StandBy layouts • Live Activities for the clock and countdowns on supported devices No account required. No ads. Skins are included. Available in 22 languages with 28 locale variants. Weather requires internet access and optional location permission; weather data is provided by Open-Meteo. The clock and timers work offline. iOS manages widget update timing and Live Activity duration; seconds may update less often in some system display states. Notifications require permission. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later.

Screenshots

Shifter4 screens
PlainTick Flip Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PlainTick Flip Clock at 17.0 against Shifter's 26.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Shifter versus PlainTick Flip Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShifterPlainTick Flip Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatija Lukanc路 林

In-app purchases

None

Shifter

No in-app purchases

None

PlainTick Flip Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shifter free?
Shifter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlainTick Flip Clock free?
PlainTick Flip Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shifter or PlainTick Flip Clock have ads?
Neither Shifter nor PlainTick Flip Clock shows ads.

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