Comparison

Letrove vs Chess Clock

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

Head to head
About

Letrove

Features
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Letrove is a creative tool that lets you collect letters found in everyday life and use them to capture everyday moments. When life begins to feel repetitive, the desire to record it can fade. Social media can turn expression into a performance of identity, making the simple act of recording feel self-conscious and heavy. Letrove offers a lighter way to reconnect with everyday life. The name Letrove combines letter and trove—a collection of treasured things. The letters hidden in ordinary corners are anything but ordinary. Each one is a small treasure waiting to be found and collected, then pieced together into a poetic portrait of your everyday life. Key Features Collect Letters Discover and photograph letterforms in everyday surroundings. AI automatically recognizes each letter and saves it to your personal library. Build Your Visual Alphabet See everyday life from new perspectives and create a visual alphabet of your own. Create Freely Use the letterforms you have collected to express yourself, capture fragments of your day, or let AI help you generate a poem. Save and Share Share your creations with friends, or keep them as a personal record of your life. With Letrove, your camera becomes a way to notice the details all around you. The curve of a railing, the space between buildings, or the outline of a tree’s shadow may all reveal a letterform. Every record preserves your unique way of seeing. For feedback or product suggestions, please contact us at: tschick5593@gmail.com

About

Chess Clock

Features
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The most beautiful chess clock on iPhone. Tempo is a native, drift‑free chess clock built for modern iOS. One‑tap simple for a casual game between friends; tournament‑accurate when it counts. No ads. No clutter. Just a gorgeous clock that keeps honest time. ► FREE, AND FAIR Both players always get an accurate, mute‑able clock — free, forever. Count down to the flag, or switch to Count Up and run each side as a stopwatch. Play, pause, reset. That’s the whole game, and none of it is behind a paywall. ► DRIFT‑FREE PRECISION Most clock apps slowly drift and lose time — fatal in blitz. Tempo derives every reading from the phone’s monotonic clock, so the time is always correct to the millisecond. Tenths of a second kick in automatically under 20s. ► EVERY TIME CONTROL Presets from Bullet to Classical, plus the full competitive spectrum: Fischer increment, Bronstein, Simple Delay, and Hourglass. Build and save your own — including asymmetric handicap times for uneven matchups and coaching. ► SEVEN LIVING CLOCK FACES Not recolors — full renderers, each with its own digits, motion, and time‑trouble behavior: Minimal, LED, Flip split‑flap, Analog with a real falling flag, Nixie tubes, Pixel dot‑matrix, and the gilded Grandmaster (with its own boom‑bap sound). Switch anytime with live previews. ► HANDS‑FREE & ACCESSIBLE Spoken countdowns (“one minute… ten… flag”) and per‑move readback let you play without looking. Pick any voice installed on your phone. A genuine accessibility win — and nobody else in the category ships it. ► LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN The active clock ticks in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, so you can follow the game without keeping the app open. ► BUILT TO BE TRUSTED The screen stays awake all game. It auto‑pauses if you leave the app and reconciles the time perfectly. Reset needs a deliberate confirm mid‑game, so a stray tap never wipes your position. ► HAPTIC & SOUND A satisfying thump on every turn, a warning when a side drops low, and an alarm on the flag. Turn any of it off — for free. ► HISTORY & STATS Every finished game is logged: winner, time control, moves, duration — with win splits and averages. Not just for chess: Tempo is a perfect timer for Go, Shogi, Scrabble, backgammon, and debate. —— TEMPO PRO (optional, one‑time unlock) The clock is free. Pro adds all seven faces, the Bronstein/Delay/Hourglass modes, live add/remove‑minutes, unlimited custom controls, and spoken time.

Screenshots

Letrove4 screens
Chess Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Letrove at none against Chess Clock's 1. Letrove also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Chess Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Letrove asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Letrove versus Chess Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLetroveChess Clock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBLANK CRAFT PTE. LTD.Dmitry Kalashnikov

In-app purchases

None

Letrove

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess Clock

One-time1
  • Tempo Pro$4.99

Questions

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

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