Split Flap vs Punctum

Turn any screen into a split-flap departure board. Split Flap brings the look and sound of a mechanical airport board to your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV — with one purchase and no subscription. MODES FOR EVERY MOMENT Clock — A flip clock with custom time zones, 12 or 24 hours and optional seconds. Focus Clock — A big, calm clock made for your desk or nightstand. World Clock — Up to eight cities at once, like a real departures board: LON, NYC, TYO and more. Weather — Today's conditions, high, low and chance of rain for any city, flipping onto the board. Message — Type anything and watch it flip into place letter by letter. Start from ready-made templates, add emoji, and share your board as an image. Quotes — Your favourite quotes, rotating automatically. Hide a quote or schedule it for certain hours and days. Syncs with iCloud. Music — The song and artist that's playing flips into view as your music changes. (iPhone, iPad and Mac) Timer — Countdown presets from 5 to 90 minutes, or a stopwatch. Big digits you can read across the room. Paint — 43 colour patterns, from flags to gradients, plus a pixel editor to paint your own. Put text over a pattern for a colourful sign. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN A Lock Screen flip clock with seconds that keep ticking, a sweeping minute ring and quotes on real flap tiles. Home Screen widgets for the clock, quotes, messages, timer and colour patterns, and StandBy when your phone charges on its side. A running timer counts down live in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, each built for the device. Apple TV has a Top Shelf that plays the board right on your Home Screen. Mac has desktop widgets, a menu bar clock and a screen saver. iPhone Duo gets a Nightstand clock when half folded. LOOK AND FEEL 9 colour themes including Neon and Confetti, light and dark boards, and 10+ flip patterns — spiral, matrix, snake and more — that control how the board reveals new content. Bedtime auto-dim keeps it gentle at night. SOUNDS THAT SATISFY Three sound themes — Mechanical, Typewriter and Soft — synthesised to match the animation. Every clack lands at the moment each flap snaps into place. HANDS-FREE Siri and Shortcuts can show the clock, post a message, start a timer or switch modes. Send to Apple TV posts a message from your iPhone straight to the board on your TV. ONE PURCHASE. EVERY PLATFORM. One purchase unlocks premium on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. No subscription. No ads.

Punctum is a dot-matrix clock for your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Every character is drawn dot by dot, in a typeface made for the grid, with the weight and roundness of the dots in your hands. A CLOCK THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY Time and date, a timer, your next calendar event, the song that is playing, and the battery. Pick what the display shows and how it moves. Dot size and shape are yours to set, and the display rolls from one value to the next. FULL DISPLAY Dock your iPhone and Punctum fills the whole screen, dimmed and quiet, as a bedside clock. Nothing but the dots, with a slow drift that protects the screen. WIDGETS AND WATCH Small Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, an Apple Watch app, and an Apple TV app, all in the same dots. PUNCTUM PRO, ONE PURCHASE Unlock everything once and keep it, shared with your family: - Live weather with 17 dot-drawn icons - Phosphor green and Night red inks, and a night schedule - Up to four timers, five rotating messages, and a live timer on the Lock Screen - Medium and Large widgets, and Apple Watch complications - Alternate app icons No account, no ads, no tracking. Punctum collects no data. Try everything free for 7 days. Then unlock the full app with a single one-time purchase. No subscription.