Comparison

Artisan vs Dessau Clock

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

Head to head
About

Artisan

Features
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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 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 or spoken countdowns that can announce 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/

About

Dessau Clock

This app offers a highly customizable modernist clock experience. Users can personalize dial plates, materials, hands, and sounds, with a special night mode and widgets for home and lock screens. It provides a permanent unlock for all features without subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Customizable dial plates and materials
  • Variety of hands and finishes
  • Recorded movement sounds with haptic feedback
  • Night mode with lume colors
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Dual time display
  • Permanent unlock with one-time purchase
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A clock, reduced to what it needs. Dessau Clock draws every dial in code at the moment you look at it. There is not one photograph of a clock inside it — the plate, the printing, the hands and the ring are geometry, so they stay sharp at any size on any screen. WHAT IS FREE, FOR GOOD One complete clock. Chrome Yellow under Bayer printing, baton hands, a hairline bezel and a jewelled Swiss escapement you can hear and feel. No advertising, no interruptions, nothing that expires. It is not a trial. THE WORKSHOP • 59 dial plates, ten of them complete objects — plate, material, printing, hands, ring and sound applied in one tap • Real materials: quartersawn oak, Carrara marble, terrazzo, pigskin leather, canvas, cork and brushed aluminium. Each one a scan, not a pattern • Five printing programmes, eight sets of hands, five second hands, five finishes, four bezels • Fourteen recorded movements — a jewelled Swiss escapement, an oak pendulum, a typebar, a glass rim — each with its own tuned haptic • Two clocks, two cities, side by side, built and coloured completely separately AFTER DARK A night face that glows, with twelve lume colours and a sharp mode that turns the bloom off entirely. Follow the system appearance, or pin it to day or night. Left running on a charger, the whole face drifts a couple of points across the screen — far too slowly to see. A display ages where it is lit, and a clock left on overnight is the one image most likely to leave a mark. WIDGETS Every size, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, and in StandBy. Each widget picks its own plate, material, hands, glow, city and background. The second hand really ticks, once a second, without the app running. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, nothing measured. The dials, cities and sounds you choose never leave your device. The only thing that does is your purchase. Universal — one buy covers iPhone and iPad. DESSAU CLOCK PRO Pro unlocks every dial, material, printing programme, hand set, bezel, finish, escapement and tick sound, plus dual time and the twelve night glows. One purchase: $9.99, once. It includes every dial the app ever adds. No subscription, no free trial, nothing that renews. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. There is nothing to cancel and nothing to manage afterwards — the unlock is permanent, and it restores on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. Terms of Use: https://dessauclock.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://dessauclock.vercel.app/privacy

Screenshots

Artisan4 screens
Dessau Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dessau Clock at daily against Artisan's every 5 days. Artisan's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Artisan sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month and Dessau Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Artisan ships an update every 5 days, Dessau Clock daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Artisan versus Dessau Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArtisanDessau Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrilon AppsTrevor Ringle

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Artisan

Subscriptions1
  • Artisan Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
1 purchases

Dessau Clock

One-time1
  • Dessau Clock Pro — Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Artisan free?
Artisan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dessau Clock free?
Dessau Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Artisan or Dessau Clock have ads?
Neither Artisan nor Dessau Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Artisan or Dessau Clock?
Artisan ships an update every 5 days, and Dessau Clock daily. Most recently, Artisan was updated on October 17, 2026 and Dessau Clock on October 12, 2026.

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