Binary Clock vs Debate Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Binary Clock
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Binary Clock turns your iPhone into a beautiful binary timepiece for your desk, nightstand, or a charging dock in landscape. Read the time the elegant way. Six columns of glowing dots show the hours, minutes, and seconds in binary, floating on a pane of Liquid Glass over slow, living artwork. LIVING BACKGROUNDS Swipe through a gallery of hand-built backgrounds that drift, glow, and breathe: - Aurora, a living color gradient - Cosmos, deep nebula with a twinkling starfield - Borealis, northern lights over a starry sky - Horizon, a cinematic sunset - Ridges, misty layered mountains - Mercury, flowing liquid metal - Artwork, an editorial sun over hills - Contemporary, minimal drifting light - Pattern, a pulsing halftone wave MADE FOR STANDBY Leave it running while charging and the screen stays awake with a calm, always-on display. A matching widget brings the binary clock to StandBy and your Lock Screen. BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN - A Liquid Glass clock face with refractive, glassy dots - Live local weather and the date - Clean controls that fade away on their own - Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad NEW TO BINARY? It is easy. Each column is one digit. A lit dot counts, from top to bottom, as 8, 4, 2, and 1. Add the lit dots in a column and you get the number. You will be reading it in a day. PRO One simple, one-time purchase unlocks every background, color themes, and the always-on standby display. No subscription, ever. Tell the time in binary. Make it art. Terms of Use (EULA): https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/binary-clock/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/binary-clock/privacy
Debate Clock
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Debate Clock is a timer built for competitive debate. It runs the whole round ā every speech in order, cross-examination, and each team's prep time ā so the chair can watch the debate instead of a stopwatch. BUILT-IN FORMATS SDL, JDL, World Schools (WSDC) and British Parliamentary come preloaded with the correct speech order and durations ā cross-examination periods, separate prep time for each side, and the protected-time window in which points of information may be offered. CUSTOM FORMATS Build your own: add speeches, set durations, assign them to a team, reorder them, and save as many formats as you need. Start from a built-in template or from a blank list. Rename teams, change their badge and colour, or add new ones. PREP TIMERS Each side gets its own countdown, independent of the speech clock. Pause, resume and reset at any point in the round. BELLS ⢠Interval bell every minute, or a single bell one minute before time ⢠Extra alert 30 seconds before the end ⢠Single or double bell when the speech ends ⢠Triple bell 15 seconds into overtime ⢠Optional bell at the start and end of the POI window, and when a point of information runs out Every bell can be mirrored as a vibration, and sound or vibration can be muted on the spot. MADE FOR A REAL ROUND ⢠A 15-second countdown for points of information, offered only while the speech is inside its POI window ⢠Exclusive timers ā starting one clock pauses the others, so two never run at once ⢠Count-up mode if you would rather see time elapsed than time remaining ⢠The screen stays awake while a timer is running ⢠Swipe between speeches on a phone; on a tablet the full speech list and both prep timers sit beside the clock ⢠Keyboard shortcuts: space to start and pause, arrow keys to change speech ⢠English and Slovak, matched to your device language No account, no ads, no tracking. Everything is stored on your device and the app works fully offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Debate Clock at none against Binary Clock's 1. Debate Clock also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Binary Clock's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Binary Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Debate Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Binary Clock ships an update daily, Debate Clock every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Binary Clock | Debate Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily ā better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Super, Inc. | Michal Hrbaty |
In-app purchases
Binary Clock
- Binary Clock Pro$2.99
Debate Clock
No in-app purchases
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