Comparison

Bathyal vs yourclock

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

Head to head
About

Bathyal

Features
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Bathyal is a clepsydra โ€” an ancient water clock โ€” rebuilt for the deep sea. In the bathyal zone there is no day or night. No sunrise, no shadow, nothing to set a clock by. The only light is made by living things. Bathyal is the instrument that keeps time down there: a face of glowing concentric channels where every drop is a second, and time is material. Watch it work: โ€ข Each second forms as a drop at the heartbeat and joins the ring โ€ข A full ring of seconds distills into one minute โ€” and pours, visibly, down into the next channel โ€ข Minutes pour into hours, hours into the day's two halves, days into months โ€” at midnight the whole cascade runs at once โ€ข Once a year, the last drop of December sinks past the digits into the abyss, unmeasured Make it yours: โ€ข Solid bands or beaded drops, sweeping or pulsing motion โ€ข 24-hour or 12-hour time โ€” 12-hour splits the hours at the meridian into a morning ring and an afternoon ring โ€ข Calendar rings for the month and year, or a Monday-first week ring whose weeks are spent, not kept โ€ข Run the midnight cascade demo any time from the settings On your wrist: โ€ข A full-screen water clock for Apple Watch โ€” seconds, minutes, and hours in the same adjacent channels โ€ข Add Bathyal as a complication; the live rings sit on any face and rewrite themselves as the day moves. No two times look the same โ€” that is the instrument, not a hand on a circle โ€ข Hold the Watch face for settings. Pulse or sweep, 12- or 24-hour time, and an optional Monday-first weekday ring. Hours, motion, and the week calendar also travel from the gear on iPhone On the Lock Screen: โ€ข Add Bathyal as a Lock Screen widget โ€” live rings, a different pattern for every minute, the same figure as the Watch complication โ€ข Hours, motion, and the weekday ring follow from the gear Quiet by design: โ€ข Completely free, no accounts, no ads, no tracking โ€” it never connects to anything โ€ข Works fully offline โ€ข Keeps the screen awake on a desk or bedside table If the instrument keeps good time for you, you can send a drop โ€” a small tip โ€” and the face answers with the benefactor tinctures: other colors of bioluminescence, and a single grain of sand set on the seabed of the dial. Drops become months.

About

yourclock

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yourclock turns any spare screen into a clock worth looking at. Forty-three clock faces, each one a different idea about what a clock can be. A railway platform clock. A flip clock that never rattles. A terminal readout. A Mondrian. Every minute of the day as a single dot, filling up as the day goes on. Pick the one that suits the room, set the phone or iPad down, and let it run. TWENTY-FOUR FACES, FREE Classic and Roman analog, a minimal digital, a flip clock, a word clock that spells the time out, a terminal, a neon dial, an orbit, a horizon that tracks the light, constellations, an hourglass, a pendulum, lava, an aquarium, a screen that floods with colour as the minute passes, and more. No account, no ads โ€” they're simply yours. NINETEEN PREMIUM FACES Railway, Aviator, Retro LCD, Halo, Wheels, Mondrian, Plain, Line, Tide, Hour, Week, Radar, Gauges, Metro, Vinyl, Cassette, Pulse, Mosaic and Iris. Each is a one-time purchase, bought individually, and yours forever on every device signed in to your Apple ID. Nothing is a subscription. SEE IT BEFORE YOU BUY Tap any locked face to preview it: it runs full screen, at full size, on your own screen, for as long as you care to look. No card, no sign-up, no clock running down. Previews carry a PREVIEW watermark until you buy the face. If it isn't for you, close it and try another. BUILT TO SIT THERE Keep the screen awake while the clock is showing, so it stays readable on a desk, a nightstand, or a kitchen counter. 12- or 24-hour time. Seconds on or off. Light, dark, or follow the system. Runs full screen on both iPhone and iPad. NOTHING IS COLLECTED No account. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. Your chosen face and your purchases are stored on your device, and there is no server on our end to send anything to.

Screenshots

Bathyal4 screens
yourclock4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bathyal and yourclock are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Bathyal sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and yourclock sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bathyal ships an update every 10 days, yourclock every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Bathyal versus yourclock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBathyalyourclock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStephen ZinnKUN WON KIM

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Bathyal

One-time3
  • Tip Small$1.99
  • Drop: The Benefactor's Drop$2.99
  • Large: A Current$9.99
10 purchases

yourclock

One-time10
  • Line$1.99
  • Tide$1.99
  • Hour$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Week$1.99
  • Gauges$1.99
  • Radar$1.99
  • Metro$1.99
  • Vinyl$1.99
  • Cassette$1.99
  • Pulse$1.99

Questions

Is Bathyal free?
Bathyal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is yourclock free?
yourclock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bathyal or yourclock have ads?
Neither Bathyal nor yourclock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bathyal or yourclock?
Bathyal ships an update every 10 days, and yourclock every 9 days. Most recently, Bathyal was updated on October 24, 2026 and yourclock on October 25, 2026.

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