Comparison

Hands vs Clock

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

Head to head
About

Hands

Design and customize your own analog clock widgets for your Home Screen. Choose from various hand and numeral styles, colors, and sizes. Share your creations with the community and explore designs made by others.

Highlights
  • Design custom analog clock widgets
  • Configure hand and numeral styles
  • Adjust size, weight, and colors
  • Use catalog clocks as starting points
  • Browse and share community designs
  • Send clocks to friends
Features
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The analog clock workshop. Design your own clock widget, then put it on your Home Screen. Configure the hand style, numeral style, numeral position, size, and weight, colors, second hand, and more. Start from scratch, or use one of the clocks in the Catalog as a starting point. Browse Community Clocks to see designs other people have made and shared, and share your own back: send a clock to a friend and they can add it straight to their own library. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Clock

Features
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Clock-it turns your Home Screen into a watch collection. 41 meticulously crafted watch faces, each drawn entirely in code and rendered live, so every dial stays razor sharp on any iPhone, at any size. A LIVING MOVEMENT A seconds hand that glides, subdials that turn, moon phases that follow the real moon, and date windows that change at midnight. THE COLLECTION Chronographs, divers, pilot and field watches, dress watches and complications. Every piece comes with a short note on what makes it special. LUME, EXACTLY AS YOU SEE IT Double-tap any dial to see it glow, then tap Apply to put that look on your widget. Choose After Dark, Always or Never, and the app and your widget stay in step. YOUR WIDGET, YOUR WAY Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets, plus Lock Screen widgets. Apply a watch in the app, or give each widget a watch of its own. A NEW WATCH EVERY DAY Turn on daily rotation and wear a different piece from the collection every day. THE ICON, ALIVE Place the Clock-it icon on your Home Screen as a widget, telling the time with live hands. DESIGNED FOR BATTERY LIFE Clock-it never runs in the background. Your widget is prepared in advance and simply displayed by iOS. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Clock-it collects no data at all.

Screenshots

Hands4 screens
Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clock at none against Hands's 3. Clock also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and iOS requirement (17.0 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. Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands ships an update every 3 days, Clock daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hands versus Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandsClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian James Sheehan LowryQubera

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

Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hands free?
Hands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clock free?
Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hands or Clock have ads?
Neither Hands nor Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hands or Clock?
Hands ships an update every 3 days, and Clock daily. Most recently, Hands was updated on October 14, 2026 and Clock on October 13, 2026.

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