Comparison

わんタップ vs Strange Clocks

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

Head to head
About

わんタップ

Features
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Organize favorite apps by category and launch them from the app or Home Screen widgets. Free to use on iPhone and iPad, with no account required. Find and launch quickly Open frequently used apps from Home or search across your registered apps. On wider screens, categories and apps appear side by side. Your selected category, search text, and editing mode stay in place when the window size changes. Start with everyday sets Choose Shopping, Commuting, or Work, then select 1–4 apps, replace items, change their order, and save a new category. Get suggested widget layouts. Add by purpose Open a route in Maps with your destination and travel mode. For a shopping note, first create a shortcut that opens your chosen note, then register its exact name. You can also register frequently used shortcuts with optional text input. Launch from your Home Screen Four widgets: App Launcher and Category Apps, each with Glass and Transparent variants. Add a widget manually and choose its category and layout. Small, medium, and large sizes are supported. The glass appearance uses iOS 26 or later display features; appearance varies with OS and Home Screen settings. Organize and back up Add, edit, and reorder categories and apps. Export and restore your registrations and settings as JSON. Backups are not encrypted and do not include photo files. Choose whether to show the mascot, or use a photo of your choice. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. Target apps must be installed and support the configured launch URL. Shortcuts must be created in Apple's Shortcuts app beforehand. This app does not automatically make payments or create notes.

About

Strange Clocks

Features
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Strange Clocks turns "what time is it?" into a small daily puzzle. Instead of one clock face, you get 15, each a different, real way humans (and machines) have told time throughout history: from a Cold War-era German clock made of lamps to the way a resistor's color bands encode a number. Every clock is stranger than the last, but none of them stay strange for long. Each one ships with a short animated guide that highlights exactly what to read and when, plus a live calculation line so you can watch the math happen in real time. WHAT'S INSIDE - 15 unusual clocks: Berlin Clock, Word Clock, Binary Clock, Cistercian Clock, Fibonacci Clock, Tix Clock, Hex Clock, Maya Clock, Moon Clock, Polar Clock, Resistor Clock, Decimal Time, Internet Time, Roman Hours, and the Prague Orloj. - An animated how-to-read guide for every single clock, no exceptions. - Widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy, in small and medium sizes. - Clock Wall mode: turn your iPhone, or the inner display of iPhone Duo, into a live wall of clocks, screensaver-style. - 10 languages: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and Italian. ONE CLOCK ON US Pick any clock as your gift and keep it free, forever: live in the app, on your widgets, and in StandBy. Every how-to-read guide is free for all 15. Want them all? A single one-time purchase of $1.99 unlocks every clock. No subscription, no recurring charges, no ads, and no tracking, ever. PRIVACY Strange Clocks doesn't collect your data. The one place it asks for location, to compute local sunrise and sunset for the Roman Hours clock, is used entirely on your device and never leaves it. Fifteen clocks. One phone. Zero reasons to know what time it "normally" is.

Screenshots

わんタップ3 screens
Strange Clocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: わんタップ at none against Strange Clocks's 1. Strange Clocks's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Strange Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. わんタップ asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

わんタップ ships an update every 4 weeks, Strange Clocks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
わんタップ versus Strange Clocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterわんタップStrange Clocks
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaohiro KamioKIP Networks

In-app purchases

None

わんタップ

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Strange Clocks

One-time1
  • Unlock all 15 clocks$1.99

Questions

Is わんタップ free?
わんタップ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strange Clocks free?
Strange Clocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do わんタップ or Strange Clocks have ads?
Neither わんタップ nor Strange Clocks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, わんタップ or Strange Clocks?
わんタップ ships an update every 4 weeks, and Strange Clocks every 3 days. Most recently, わんタップ was updated on October 28, 2026 and Strange Clocks on October 29, 2026.

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