Dessau Clock vs Verba Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Verba Clock
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Verba Clock tells the time the way people say it. No hands, no digits - a quiet grid of letters where the right words light up: IT IS TWENTY FIVE PAST TWELVE. FINISHES 18 crafted surfaces, from Deep Black and Stainless Steel to Gold, Rust, Waves and Metamorphite - plus two e-ink faces, Paper and Ink, rendered the way a real ink panel would: one ink, dithered letters, no glow. LANGUAGES 32 languages — English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew. Every face follows how that language actually says the time. EVERYWHERE YOU GLANCE • Home screen and lock screen widgets in every size • StandBy — a bedside word clock while charging • Apple Watch app with a Smart Stack widget • Dock mode: charging in landscape turns the phone into a dimmed night clock DETAILS THAT MATTER • Two presentations: a wall-mounted clock face or edge-to-edge full bleed • Word transitions: instant, fade, typewriter or blink • Corner dots or a minute row for the in-between minutes • Light play, brightness control, keep-awake, haptics PRIVATE BY DESIGN Verba Clock is fully offline. It makes no network requests, collects nothing, tracks nothing, and asks for no account. The only permission it uses is vibration for haptics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Verba Clock at none against Dessau Clock's 1. On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Dessau Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Verba Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Dessau Clock | Verba Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trevor Ringle | Filip Vitas |
In-app purchases
Dessau Clock
- Dessau Clock Pro — Lifetime$9.99
Verba Clock
No in-app purchases









