Comparison

Flip Clock Pure 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

Flip Clock Pure

Features
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a calm, beautifully readable flip clock. Flip Clock Pure is designed for desks, nightstands, focus sessions, studios, shelves, and any space that benefits from a quiet display of time. Open the app, set the mood, and let everything unnecessary disappear. CLOCK STUDIO Make the clock feel at home on every screen. Adjust portrait and landscape size independently, choose digit weight, tune card depth, and preview changes instantly. SIGNATURE THEMES Choose from Obsidian, Midnight, Champagne, and Porcelain. Every palette is carefully tuned for clarity and atmosphere. MADE FOR EVERY ORIENTATION Use automatic rotation or lock the experience to portrait or landscape. Each orientation keeps its own scale for a precise fit. THE DETAILS YOU WANT Choose 12- or 24-hour time, seconds, date, flip flaps, dimming, and burn-in protection. Your selected theme, time format, and date preference carry over to the StandBy-ready widget. STANDBY-READY Add the small Flip Clock Pure widget, place a charging iPhone horizontally, and view a large, glanceable clock in StandBy. Tapping the widget opens Flip Clock Pure. StandBy availability and activation are controlled by iOS. OPTIONAL AD-FREE UPGRADE Remove in-app advertising with one purchase. No subscription. Restore purchases whenever you reinstall on the same store account. No account is required. Just a focused, premium clock.

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 • 24-hour time with a choice of time zone • Sixteen skins, including classic, outline, geometric and handwritten styles; swipe up or down on the clock to switch • 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 • Four Home Screen widgets: ivory flip clock, sundial with a night moondial, retro cassette and retro radio, in small, medium and large sizes • Widgets show the date, current weather and a monthly calendar; the cassette reels, radio needle and flip clock gear move • Widget seconds follow your Show seconds setting • The small widget also works in StandBy • 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

Flip Clock Pure2 screens
PlainTick Flip Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PlainTick Flip Clock at every 2 weeks against Flip Clock Pure's every 5 weeks. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flip Clock Pure ships an update every 5 weeks, PlainTick Flip Clock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Flip Clock Pure versus PlainTick Flip Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlip Clock PurePlainTick Flip Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSUPER KIM KIMYA VE TEKSTIL SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI路 林

In-app purchases

None

Flip Clock Pure

No in-app purchases

None

PlainTick Flip Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flip Clock Pure free?
Flip Clock Pure 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 Flip Clock Pure or PlainTick Flip Clock have ads?
Neither Flip Clock Pure nor PlainTick Flip Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flip Clock Pure or PlainTick Flip Clock?
Flip Clock Pure ships an update every 5 weeks, and PlainTick Flip Clock every 2 weeks. Most recently, Flip Clock Pure was updated on October 28, 2026 and PlainTick Flip Clock on October 24, 2026.

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