Artisan vs FormHour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artisan
Transform your devices into a personalized art gallery with living timepieces. Explore a growing collection of hand-painted watch faces, customize motion effects, and enjoy spoken time in multiple languages. Designed for privacy and aesthetic appeal, it offers a unique way to experience time.
- Hand-painted living watch faces
- Customizable motion effects
- Spoken time in 14 languages
- Moonphase and perpetual calendar complications
- Home Screen widgets and Live Activities
- Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV)
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Time, painted by hand and brought to life. Artisan turns every screen into a private gallery of living time. Each dial begins as a work of art—from cloisonné botanicals and gold-leaf koi to celestial charts—then comes alive with a finely tuned mechanical sweep. This is a clock to live with: quiet on a nightstand, striking on a desk, and beautifully at home across your Apple devices. A COLLECTION THAT GROWS • Explore Odyssey, Zodiac, Celestial, and other curated collections • Discover a new hand-painted dial every day with Artisan Pro • Return to saved releases in the Calendar Gallery • Browse and search every face and collection in Explore TIME IN MOTION • Let the second hand stir the artwork with Liquid, Ripple, Smear, or Lens effects • Move between analog and digital time with a gesture • Choose mechanical sweep, quartz step, haptic tick, and refined hand styles COMPLICATIONS, PAINTED • Moonphase: a hand-painted moon behind a true aperture, tracking the real lunar phase • Perpetual Calendar: rotating month, date, and weekday rings under a cyclops lens • Tap Demo to watch a month of moon and calendar sweep by in seconds CRAFTED FOR YOUR SPACE • Choose full-screen, framed Dial, or immersive Superzoom layouts • Set Night mode, keep-awake behavior, quiet hours, and OLED care • Keep time close with a Home Screen widget and Lock Screen Live Activity • Enjoy your selected dial on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV TIME, SPOKEN BEAUTIFULLY • Tap to hear the time in one of 34 lifelike voices across 14 languages • Set hourly chimes that announce even from the background PRIVACY BY DESIGN Artisan does not collect your data. Begin with three signature dials, the Liquid effect, and gold hands. Artisan Pro unlocks the complete daily collection, all voices, new effects and features, and every limited release you keep. Artisan Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account subscription settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
FormHour
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FormHour turns your iPhone into a calm, beautifully crafted analog clock for your desk, studio, nightstand, or focused work sessions. Choose from six distinctive clock faces, each with its own geometry, hands, markers, colors, and visual rhythm. Switch between quartz ticking and smooth sweeping motion, use a minimal display, and adjust the clock for daytime or OLED-friendly nighttime viewing. Features: - Six distinctive analog clock faces - Quartz Tick and Smooth Sweep movements - Day and Night themes - Ambient color shifts throughout the day - Optional seconds, date, and weekday - 12-hour and 24-hour display - Time Arc and Focus Markers - Minimal Mode - Optional hourly or half-hour Quiet Chime - In-app brightness control - Screen sleep prevention - Burn-in reduction for extended display - Portrait and landscape support All features are available for free in version 1.0.0. FormHour includes no subscriptions, in-app purchases, advertisements, accounts, analytics, or tracking. Settings remain locally on the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FormHour at none against Artisan's 1. FormHour also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Artisan's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Artisan sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. FormHour asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Artisan | FormHour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trilon Apps | KANDK |
In-app purchases
Artisan
- Artisan Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
FormHour
No in-app purchases









