OneHandClock vs aClocks Premium Analog Clocks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OneHandClock
Experience a unique approach to timekeeping with a minimalist, single-hand clock. Customize backgrounds with your photos or camera, and choose between 12 or 24-hour formats with 10-minute increments. A three-hand option with a smooth second hand is also available.
- Single-hand clock display
- 24-hour and 12-hour formats
- 10-minute scale divisions
- Optional second hand
- Customizable clock position and size
- Camera or photo backgrounds
- Character customization on dial
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This is a one needle clock. Let's feel the passage of calm time. - One-stitch clock -> 24-hour clock. The day-time is an upper half and the night-time is a lower half. -> 12-hour clock. -> The smallest scale division is 10 minutes. - Three-stitch clock - > The second hand is a clock which gains smoothly. - You can change the position and size of the clock. - You can choose a camera image or a photo as the background of the clock. - Please write a favorite character in a dial and make it your clock. - If it puts sideways, a status bar will not be displayed. - When continuing displaying in "Auto sleep"-off, we recommend you to connect with a power supply. There is a paid version "oneHandClock (Pro version)" that does not display advertisements.
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks
This app allows you to display multiple analog clocks simultaneously, with customizable skins and locator buttons. It supports over 200 cities worldwide and offers notifications for daylight saving time and holidays.
- Run multiple analog clocks
- Select from 22 clock skins
- Highlight locator buttons
- Covers over 200 cities globally
- Daylight Saving Time notifications
- Holiday notifications for specific regions
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aClocks Premium is an advanced version of an existing iPhone app called aClocks. It allows the user to run multiple analog clocks at a time. It comes with several, additional features that aClocks doesn’t have. aClocks Premium lets you select a clock skin out of 22 styles. Some of them are quite pretty. Also, aClocks Premium lets you highlight locator buttons so that you can give some of the clocks special attention. - Features - 1. Run multiple analog clocks at a time. Scroll the middle view left to right or vice versa to locate a clock if you have two or more clocks. 2. Tap the name of a city, which is in fact the title of a push button (locator button), at the bottom view to quickly locate the corresponding clock. 3. Highlight the titles of locator buttons. 4. The app covers more than 200 cities around the globe. They are divided into 8 regions including Africa, Asia, Atlantic, Australia, Europe, North America, Pacific, South America. 5. The user can choose one of 23 area languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, Greek, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Indonesia, Malay, Thai. The area language is responsible for showing the names of 8 areas and all 200+ city names in the selected language. 6. If a clock is under the day light saving time, a rotating, graphic notation appears at the top-left corner. 7. If the corresponding city of the clock is Japanese and the time is under a Japanese national holiday, a graphic notation will appear at the top-right corner of the clock. 8. If a clock points to a U.S. city, which is under the federal holiday, then a graphic notation will appear at the bottom-left corner of the clock. 9. The app comes with 22 clock skins. Apply one of them to all clocks that are currently running. 10.The app prevents the user from installing multiple clocks from the same city. 11.There is no WiFi or WWAN required at any time to run the application. 12.Languages: English and Japanese only. 13.Application file size: 35.3 MB. - System requirements - 1. iOS 9.0 or above 2. iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPod Touch. - Limitations - 1. aClocks Premium allows the user to create as many as two clocks at a time if they choose to use it as freeware. 2. aClocks may be deprived of promised features if the device is jailbroken. 3. As you create more and more clocks, memory consumption will increase. For example, if you run 25 clocks at a time with iPhone 5, the app can require as much as 70 to 105 MB of memory with no known memory leak. 4. The user cannot apply a different clock skin to each clock that is currently running. The same style will apply to all clocks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OneHandClock at none against aClocks Premium Analog Clocks's 1. OneHandClock also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). aClocks Premium Analog Clocks's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 26 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. aClocks Premium Analog Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OneHandClock asks for nothing beyond the download.
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OneHandClock has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
OneHandClock ships an update every 26 months, aClocks Premium Analog Clocks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OneHandClock | aClocks Premium Analog Clocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keietsu Yasuhara | Tomoyuki Okawa |
Customer experience
OneHandClock
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks
In-app purchases
OneHandClock
No in-app purchases
aClocks Premium Analog Clocks
- Unlimited clocks$2.99
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