Comparison

Floating Clock vs Ply

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

Head to head
About

Floating Clock

Features
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Keep time exactly where you need it. Floating Clock combines a clear digital clock, a precise stopwatch, and a simple countdown timer in one focused app. FLOATING DIGITAL CLOCK Keep an easy-to-read clock visible while you work, study, cook, exercise, or use other apps. PRECISE STOPWATCH Start, pause, resume, and reset with support for seconds and milliseconds. COUNTDOWN TIMER Set hours, minutes, and seconds. Pause when needed, continue when ready, or quickly repeat your timer. FULL-SCREEN DISPLAY Turn your iPhone into a large desk or bedside clock that is easy to read from across the room. Portrait and landscape layouts are supported. MAKE IT YOURS • Choose 12-hour or 24-hour time • Show or hide the date and seconds • Select from multiple clock fonts and styles • Use light, dark, or system appearance • Keep the screen awake when you need an always-visible clock From focus sessions and presentations to workouts and cooking, Floating Clock makes time simple, precise, and easy to see. Privacy Policy: https://duocnguyen.dev/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ply

Features
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Ply is the chess clock that never misses a tap. Open it, tap a time, and play: two taps to a running game. THE CLOCK • The switch happens the moment your finger lands, not when it lifts. Slap the whole half of the screen, with any number of fingers. • The time never drifts and never jumps: every move is measured on the phone's own clock, not counted in ticks. • The side to move is bright. The side that waits is dim. You can see whose turn it is from across the room. • At 10 seconds the clock turns red. Warnings at one minute, 30 and 10 seconds, a beep for each of the last 5, and an alarm when a flag falls. • A click on every move, made so that fast bullet taps do not cut it off. Loud Sounds for a noisy room. A light tap of the phone on each switch. • One small pause button in the middle, away from your hand. Turn on Hold to Pause, and a stray finger in blitz does not stop the game. • Add or take away time for a penalty, take back the last tap, restart, or end the game. • Upright, or on its side beside the board. On iPad too. TIME CONTROLS • Bullet, blitz, rapid and classical presets: 1+0, 2+1, 3+0, 3+2, 5+0, 5+3, 10+0, 15+10, 30+0. • Your own control: minutes and seconds, an increment, and its kind: Fischer, Bronstein or US delay. Save it as a tile. • Time odds: give one player more time than the other. • Keep Running After a Flag, for US Chess rules. AFTER THE GAME • A summary when a game ends: the time each side used, the average and the longest move, and a chart of the seconds for each move. • Your games stay on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking. PLY PRO • Board games for 2 to 8 players: names and colors, one tap passes the turn. Time bank, time per turn, or count up. For Catan, Scrabble, Rummikub, backgammon, wargames and more. • Byo-yomi for Go and shogi: main time, then periods. • The FIDE tournament control: 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 more, with 30 seconds a move. • A mechanical clock face in 3D: hands, a button that goes down, and a flag that falls. • The OLED Black clock theme, wood-and-bell sounds, and a voice that says "one minute", "thirty seconds" and "ten seconds". • Every game in charts: games by week and by weekday, what you play, how your games end, and where your time goes. Ply speaks 58 languages. Ply Pro is a weekly subscription, with a free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews each week unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your account settings on the App Store. Privacy Policy: https://theflynch.com/e8c62569-7aa8-4720-8e43-b24e1833b75d/ply/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://theflynch.com/e8c62569-7aa8-4720-8e43-b24e1833b75d/ply/terms-of-service.html

Screenshots

Floating Clock4 screens
Ply4 screens

Verdict

The call

Floating Clock and Ply are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Floating Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ply sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Floating Clock versus Ply: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloating ClockPly
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB51 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperNguyen DuocFlynch MB

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Floating Clock

One-time1
  • Floating Clock Pro$1.99
2 purchases

Ply

Subscriptions1
  • Ply Pro Weekly7 Days trial$3.997 Days
One-time1
  • Ply Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Floating Clock free?
Floating Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ply free?
Ply is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Floating Clock or Ply have ads?
Neither Floating Clock nor Ply shows ads.

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