Comparison

Hands vs Custom Clock Widget

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

Head to head
About

Hands

Create and customize analog clock and weather widgets for your home screen. Design every element from hand styles to colors, or explore community creations. Share your unique widget designs with friends.

Highlights
  • Design custom analog clocks
  • Create weather widgets
  • Choose hand styles, numerals, and colors
  • Browse and share community widgets
  • Add widgets to Home Screen
  • Weather forecasts with barometer inspiration
Features
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Hands is an analog widget app. Design your own clock and weather widgets, then put them on your Home Screen. CLOCKS Choose the hand style, the numerals and where they sit, size, weight, colors, the second hand and more. Start from scratch, or start from a design in the Catalog. WEATHER Inspired by old-school barometers, weather widgets have two hands. The short, wide hand shows the weather right now. The long needle points to the worst weather coming in the next few hours. Show weather symbols or your own words for each condition, for where you are or any place you choose. Style them just like your clocks. SHARE Browse Community Widgets to see designs other people have made, and share your own: send a widget to a friend and they can add it straight to their library. Small and large widgets. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Custom Clock Widget

Features
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Create a clock widget that feels like it belongs on your Home Screen. Custom Clock Widget lets you design personalized digital and analog clocks with your own fonts, colors, layouts, backgrounds, and styling. Create multiple designs, preview them in different widget sizes, and choose which design appears on your Home Screen. CUSTOMIZE YOUR CLOCK Choose between digital and analog clock styles and personalize the appearance to match your Home Screen. • Digital and analog clock designs • 12-hour and 24-hour time formats • Custom time, day, and date display • Adjustable fonts and text sizes • Custom text colors and opacity • Text highlight styling • Custom analog clock faces, numbers, and hands MAKE IT YOURS Choose a solid color background or select one of your own photos to create a more personal widget. Photo backgrounds can be framed separately for small, medium, and large widget sizes so your design looks right wherever you use it. SAVE MULTIPLE DESIGNS Create and save multiple clock designs for different Home Screen styles. Duplicate an existing design, make changes, and switch your active clock whenever you want. PREVIEW BEFORE YOU USE IT Preview your clock in small, medium, and large widget sizes directly in the app before choosing the design you want to display. SIMPLE WIDGET SETUP Choose your design in the app, then add the Custom Clock widget to your iPhone Home Screen using the standard iOS widget controls. No account required. Your clock designs and selected photo backgrounds are used locally on your device.

Screenshots

Hands4 screens
Custom Clock Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Custom Clock Widget at none against Hands's 3. Custom Clock Widget also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support 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. Hands sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Custom Clock Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hands versus Custom Clock Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandsCustom Clock Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.217.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian James Sheehan LowryDeneisha Tieng

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hands

Subscriptions2
  • Hands Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Hands Pro Yearly7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Hands Pro Lifetime$24.99
None

Custom Clock Widget

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hands free?
Hands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Custom Clock Widget free?
Custom Clock Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hands or Custom Clock Widget have ads?
Neither Hands nor Custom Clock Widget shows ads.

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