Comparison

ro vs CLEPSYDRA

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

Head to head
About

ro

Transform your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and aesthetically pleasing environment. This app offers expertly designed layouts and a toolkit of 9 widgets to support your focus and reduce distractions.

Highlights
  • Minimalist home screen design
  • Customizable app launchers
  • Text-only widgets
  • Minimal dashboards
  • Weather summaries
  • Quote widgets
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
Read full description

In Danish, "ro" means calm, peace, and tranquility. Your phone should be a tool that supports your focus. ro transforms your iPhone home screen into a calm, minimal, and beautifully aesthetic environment. EFFORTLESS HARMONY ro does the design work for you. Personalize your apps, tint colors, and custom text, while the foundational layouts remain expertly proportioned. This guarantees that your home screen will always look perfectly balanced and distraction-free. 9 CRAFTED WIDGETS Explore a focused toolkit of 9 widgets, including text-only app launchers, minimal dashboards, weather summaries, and subtle quotes. COMMUNITY DRIVEN ro is an evolving, independent project. Join our Discord community to share feedback, request new widgets, and help shape the app's future. PRIVACY FIRST What happens on your home screen stays on your device. ro collects no personal data, uses no analytics trackers, and reads your calendar strictly on-device.

About

CLEPSYDRA

Features
Read full description

CLEPSYDRA is a quiet sequential timer for routines, focused work, study, practice, and any day that refuses to go exactly as planned. Instead of setting separate alarms, restarting timers, or forcing your life into rigid calendar blocks, you create a simple chain of tasks with durations. CLEPSYDRA runs them one after another, shows your progress visually, and helps you keep moving through your plan. Think of it as an upgrade to the Pomodoro technique. Classic Pomodoro timers work well when nothing interrupts you. CLEPSYDRA is built for real days: interruptions, delays, unfinished tasks, changing priorities, and the small chaos of ordinary life. If something cannot be finished now, you can send it back to the queue and continue. Your session can bend without breaking. The goal is simple: get everything done, one task after another, even when the day interrupts you. At the end, CLEPSYDRA gives you a clear session report: what you planned, what actually happened, how long things took, and what remained unfinished. Over time, this helps you understand your real working rhythm and plan future sessions more honestly. CLEPSYDRA is also AI-ready. Your AI assistant can easily create a list of tasks and durations, and you can paste the whole plan into CLEPSYDRA at once. Features: • Create a sequence of timed tasks • Paste multiple tasks at once • Move through your plan one task after another • Handle interruptions without losing the session • Finish a task later and return it to the queue • easily extend or reduce the active timer by one minute • Receive iOS notifications when a locked-screen timer finishes • Review and share a session report • Works locally, without accounts or sign-in CLEPSYDRA is intentionally minimal. No feeds, no tracking, no gamification, no complicated setup, and nothing to learn. Open it, add your tasks, start the first one, and the idea becomes clear immediately.

Screenshots

ro3 screens
CLEPSYDRA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ro at Free against CLEPSYDRA's $2.99. CLEPSYDRA's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On ads 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

ro is free to download; CLEPSYDRA costs $2.99 up front. ro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CLEPSYDRA asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ro ships an update weekly, CLEPSYDRA every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ro versus CLEPSYDRA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterroCLEPSYDRA
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFilip SmalecMichal Juraszek

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ro

One-time1
  • Full Collection$2.99
None

CLEPSYDRA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ro free?
ro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CLEPSYDRA free?
CLEPSYDRA costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ro or CLEPSYDRA have ads?
Neither ro nor CLEPSYDRA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ro or CLEPSYDRA?
ro ships an update weekly, and CLEPSYDRA every 2 days. Most recently, ro was updated on October 5, 2026 and CLEPSYDRA on October 6, 2026.

Other comparisons