Comparison

Life Dots vs Pocket Poker Clock

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

Head to head
About

Life Dots

Visualize your life's progress through a simple grid of dots representing your day, month, year, or lifespan. A home screen widget provides a constant reminder to make the most of your time and stay motivated.

Highlights
  • Visualize time progression
  • Day, month, year, lifespan views
  • Home screen widget
  • Lock screen widget
  • Motivation and urgency reminder
Features
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Life Dots helps you visualize your life in dots. See how much of your day, month, year, or expected lifespan has passed through a simple grid of dots. Add a widget to keep it visible on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. It’s easy to take time for granted without realizing how quickly it passes. When you need a little urgency or motivation, simply open the app or glance at your widget for a reminder to make the most of your time.

About

Pocket Poker Clock

Manage home poker tournaments with this intuitive clock and manager. Track players, blinds, rebuys, and results. Designed by a poker player for ease of use during games.

Highlights
  • Custom tournament setup
  • Blind and ante tracking
  • Player registration and elimination tracking
  • Rebuy and late registration management
  • Automatic results and finishing positions
  • Tournament clock with breaks and level progression
Features
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Pocket Poker Clock is a feature-packed poker tournament clock and manager built by a poker player, for poker players. Designed for home games and friendly live tournaments, Pocket Poker Clock goes far beyond a simple blind timer. It helps you manage your tournament from the first player registration through the final hand. TOURNAMENT CLOCK • Customizable blind levels and breaks • Turbo, Classic and Relaxed tournament presets • Small blind, big blind and ante tracking • Average stack and total chip displays • Skip ahead to future levels when needed • Sound and visual alerts for level changes PLAYER & TABLE MANAGEMENT • Register and automatically seat players • Random seat assignments • Automatic table balancing with minimal player movement • Add late entries during eligible levels • Track eliminations and remaining players • Director controls for correcting player and tournament information REBUYS & LATE REGISTRATION • Enable or disable rebuys and late entries • Set when rebuy and registration periods close • Track total rebuys • Automatically assign rebuying and late-entry players to appropriate tables PRIZE & MONEY MANAGEMENT • Track buy-ins and prize pools • Optional house fees • Payment confirmation for paid tournaments • Configure places paid • Automatically calculate payouts RESULTS • Track finishing positions throughout the tournament • View final standings and payouts • Tournament information remains available after the tournament ends until you’re ready to reset it No accounts, subscriptions or complicated setup. Just set up your tournament, seat your players and play. Built by a poker player, for poker players.

Screenshots

Life Dots4 screens
Pocket Poker Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Life Dots at free against Pocket Poker Clock's paid. Life Dots also leads on ratings volume (28 vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Life Dots against 5.0 for Pocket Poker Clock. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Dots has 28 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Life Dots versus Pocket Poker Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife DotsPocket Poker Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (28 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHE DIGITAL MINIMALIST PTE. LTD.CHARLES JASON MASHURA

Customer experience

Life Dots

All ratings28 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pocket Poker Clock

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Life Dots

No in-app purchases

None

Pocket Poker Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Life Dots free?
Life Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Poker Clock free?
Pocket Poker Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Life Dots or Pocket Poker Clock?
Life Dots and Pocket Poker Clock are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 28 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Life Dots or Pocket Poker Clock have ads?
Neither Life Dots nor Pocket Poker Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life Dots or Pocket Poker Clock?
Life Dots ships an update weekly, and Pocket Poker Clock weekly. Most recently, Life Dots was updated on October 13, 2026 and Pocket Poker Clock on October 8, 2026.

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