Shamir Safe vs Needless Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shamir Safe
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Shamir Safe: Protect Your Crypto with Secret Sharing Secure your cryptocurrency wallets using Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS) — the same cryptographic standard used by banks and security professionals. Split your seed phrase, private keys, or any sensitive data into multiple encrypted shares. No single share reveals your secret. HOW IT WORKS: Shamir's Secret Sharing splits your secret into N shares, requiring only K shares to reconstruct it (K-of-N threshold). Example: • Split seed into 5 shares • Require 3 shares to recover • Distribute shares to trusted locations • Lose 2 shares? Still recover your secret! KEY FEATURES: Secret Sharing (SSS) • Split seed phrases, private keys, passwords • Custom threshold (K-of-N) • Supports BIP39 mnemonics • Any text up to 2000 characters Secure Storage • No internet required (offline-first) Share Management • Create unlimited shares • Label shares for organization Recovery Tools • Visual share counter • Threshold indicator • Step-by-step reconstruction • Validation before saving Privacy First • Zero data collection • No analytics, no tracking • Open-source cryptography • Works completely offline PERFECT FOR: • Crypto investors securing seed phrases • Multi-sig wallet backup strategies • Estate planning for digital assets • Teams sharing sensitive credentials • Anyone needing secure secret distribution USE CASES: 1. Personal Backup: - Create 3 shares, require 2 - Store: phone, laptop, safety deposit box - Lose one device? Still recover! 2. Family Inheritance: - Create 5 shares for family members - Require 3 of 5 to access - Ensures access if something happens 3. Team Security: - Split company wallet seed - Require 3 of 5 executives - Prevents single point of failure WHY SHAMIR SAFE? Better than paper backup: - No single point of failure - Distributed security - Threshold recovery Better than password manager: - Mathematical security - No master password to forget - Offline by design Better than hardware wallet alone: - Geographic distribution - Survives device loss - No vendor lock-in IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTES: 1. Never share all shares in one location 2. Test recovery BEFORE deleting original 3. Store shares in geographically separate places 4. Shamir Safe cannot recover lost shares 5. You are responsible for share security PRIVACY: Shamir Safe collects ZERO data: • No analytics • No tracking • No personal information • No internet connection required • Your secrets stay on your device
Needless Clock
This app offers a collection of living, animated clocks that display time through unique visual narratives. Interact with the scenes to alter elements and enjoy a calming visual experience that goes beyond simple timekeeping.
- Living, animated clock designs
- Interactive visual elements
- Customizable clock scenes
- Scheduled display dimming
- Short clock film creation
- No ads or third-party tracking
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People do not open Needless Clock merely to find out the time. More often, they want the glowing screen beside them to grow quiet without becoming empty: something to glance at between tasks, a little light at night, time passing without hurrying anyone along. Needless Clock is a collection of living, animated clocks. They all keep the same real time, but each inhabits a world of its own. Fish turn through water, birds arrive from far away, ants hurry under the weight of a treat, cars follow the painted lines of a car park, and a brush writes numerals in water. At the turn of a minute the picture wakes; once everything has found its place, only small movements, wings, shadows and breathing remain. TIME HAS THIRTEEN PLACES TO GO Fish gather into figures. Touch the water and those nearby scatter, then swim home along their own curved paths. Birds perch on five wires. Some leave at the next minute, others find a new place, and now and then a distant bird crosses the clouds. Tap once and the sky sinks beneath the sea, the flock becoming fish of different forms. Ants carry biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish, winter-melon candy and leaves. Cars pull into bays. Metal blocks fall one by one. These digits are not displayed; they are made. Lotus Pond, Starry Night and Auspicious Cranes share one frame: brushstrokes paint the time across the water, and cranes fly out of the painting to form the figures. White sand crabs climb out of their burrows and line up as figures, while a few red crabs wander the beach, slipping into a burrow or strolling past. Water runs from a brush onto stone and disappears first from the finest ends of the strokes. Oracle bone, bronze, seal and clerical scripts sit beside the hands of Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Huang Tingjian, letting one numeral travel through centuries. A gnomon casts its shadow among the twelve Earthly Branches, its length changing through the twenty-four solar terms. There is also a wall of cooperating clock faces, a luminous word clock, figures revealed by paper and shadow, and mechanical flaps that fall like those once heard in stations and airports. GOOD JUST LEFT THERE Swipe to move between clocks. Tap to change a material, colour or world. Or choose a few favourites and let them rotate by themselves, from every minute to every hour. At night the display can dim on your schedule. Keep the screen awake, or hide the title, date and time zone until only time remains. It belongs on an iPhone stand, across an iPad, beside a Mac workspace, or spread quietly over the television in a living room. A MOMENT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU On supported devices, Share waits for the next minute. It keeps the stillness before the change and stops after the movement has come to rest, making a short clock film to save or send. No account, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The clocks and their calculations stay on the device. Location is off by default and, if enabled, is used only to let the car park grow dark near your own sunset. Supports Reduce Motion and VoiceOver. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. All clocks now support portrait and landscape on iPhone and iPad, including upside-down portrait. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Needless Clock at none against Shamir Safe's shown. Needless Clock also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). Shamir Safe's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shamir Safe ships an update every 10 days, Needless Clock every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shamir Safe | Needless Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Sereda | 路 林 |
In-app purchases
Shamir Safe
No in-app purchases
Needless Clock
No in-app purchases
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