Comparison

Taozi vs Strange Clocks

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

Head to head
About

Taozi

Personalize your iPhone's Home Screen with a variety of HD wallpapers and minimalist, retro-inspired widgets. Display clocks, calendars, weather, step counts, and battery information with a clean, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • HD wallpapers
  • Minimalist widgets
  • Clock, calendar, weather widgets
  • Step count & battery widgets
  • Retro and cute styles
  • Ad-free experience
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Peach is now Taozi. Discover HD wallpapers and minimal, retro-inspired widgets. Personalize your Home Screen with clocks, calendars, weather, step counts, and battery widgets. Want a better-looking iPhone Home Screen without the ads? Taozi is a clean, ad-free widget app with plenty of free widgets and new designs added over time. Instead of filling the app with endless repeated templates, we focus on carefully designing every widget. Discover: • Clock, calendar and weather widgets • Steps, battery, date and time • Minimal, retro, cute and expressive styles • Plenty of free widgets you can use right away • A simple, natural iPhone experience Choose a widget you like and add it to your Home Screen in just a few steps. Keep useful information at a glance while making your iPhone feel more like your own. Taozi is now optimized for iOS 27, with clear, reliable widgets.

About

Strange Clocks

Features
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Strange Clocks turns "what time is it?" into a small daily puzzle. Instead of one clock face, you get 15, each a different, real way humans (and machines) have told time throughout history: from a Cold War-era German clock made of lamps to the way a resistor's color bands encode a number. Every clock is stranger than the last, but none of them stay strange for long. Each one ships with a short animated guide that highlights exactly what to read and when, plus a live calculation line so you can watch the math happen in real time. WHAT'S INSIDE - 15 unusual clocks: Berlin Clock, Word Clock, Binary Clock, Cistercian Clock, Fibonacci Clock, Tix Clock, Hex Clock, Maya Clock, Moon Clock, Polar Clock, Resistor Clock, Decimal Time, Internet Time, Roman Hours, and the Prague Orloj. - An animated how-to-read guide for every single clock, no exceptions. - Widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy, in small and medium sizes. - Clock Wall mode: turn your iPhone, or the inner display of iPhone Duo, into a live wall of clocks, screensaver-style. - 10 languages: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and Italian. ONE CLOCK ON US Pick any clock as your gift and keep it free, forever: live in the app, on your widgets, and in StandBy. Every how-to-read guide is free for all 15. Want them all? A single one-time purchase of $1.99 unlocks every clock. No subscription, no recurring charges, no ads, and no tracking, ever. PRIVACY Strange Clocks doesn't collect your data. The one place it asks for location, to compute local sunrise and sunset for the Roman Hours clock, is used entirely on your device and never leaves it. Fifteen clocks. One phone. Zero reasons to know what time it "normally" is.

Screenshots

Taozi3 screens
Strange Clocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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. Taozi sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Strange Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Taozi ships an update every 4 days, Strange Clocks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Taozi versus Strange Clocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaoziStrange Clocks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer玉杰 张KIP Networks

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Taozi

One-time6
  • Peach Membership — 30 Days$0.99
  • Peach Membership — 7 Days$0.99
  • Monthly Membership$2.99
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  • Lifetime Upgrade$5.00
  • Peach Premium — 1 Year$9.99
  • Peach Lifetime Membership$14.99
1 purchases

Strange Clocks

One-time1
  • Unlock all 15 clocks$1.99

Questions

Is Taozi free?
Taozi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Strange Clocks free?
Strange Clocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Taozi or Strange Clocks have ads?
Neither Taozi nor Strange Clocks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taozi or Strange Clocks?
Taozi ships an update every 4 days, and Strange Clocks every 3 days. Most recently, Taozi was updated on November 6, 2026 and Strange Clocks on October 31, 2026.

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