Comparison

Strange Clocks vs Big Face Clock

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

Head to head
About

Strange Clocks

Features
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Strange Clocks turns "what time is it?" into a small daily puzzle. Instead of one clock face, you get 15, each a different, real way humans (and machines) have told time throughout history: from a Cold War-era German clock made of lamps to the way a resistor's color bands encode a number. Every clock is stranger than the last, but none of them stay strange for long. Each one ships with a short animated guide that highlights exactly what to read and when, plus a live calculation line so you can watch the math happen in real time. WHAT'S INSIDE - 15 unusual clocks: Berlin Clock, Word Clock, Binary Clock, Cistercian Clock, Fibonacci Clock, Tix Clock, Hex Clock, Maya Clock, Moon Clock, Polar Clock, Resistor Clock, Decimal Time, Internet Time, Roman Hours, and the Prague Orloj. - An animated how-to-read guide for every single clock, no exceptions. - Widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy, in small and medium sizes. - Clock Wall mode: turn your iPhone, or the inner display of iPhone Duo, into a live wall of clocks, screensaver-style. - 10 languages: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and Italian. ONE CLOCK ON US Pick any clock as your gift and keep it free, forever: live in the app, on your widgets, and in StandBy. Every how-to-read guide is free for all 15. Want them all? A single one-time purchase of $1.99 unlocks every clock. No subscription, no recurring charges, no ads, and no tracking, ever. PRIVACY Strange Clocks doesn't collect your data. The one place it asks for location, to compute local sunrise and sunset for the Roman Hours clock, is used entirely on your device and never leaves it. Fifteen clocks. One phone. Zero reasons to know what time it "normally" is.

About

Big Face Clock

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Big Face turns your iPhone or iPad into a clear, full-screen clock for your desk, bedside or spare device. A CLOCK FOR YOUR SPACE Choose from 16 themes, including flip cards, quartz-style LCD, dot matrix, neon, editorial, handwritten and a high-contrast calendar. Save your favorites and swipe between faces. SEE THE DETAILS YOU WANT Use 12- or 24-hour time, show or hide seconds, and choose a clean clock-only display. View the date and weekday, with a lunar calendar available in Chinese. Read built-in words or add your own quotes locally. SET UP YOUR DESK OR BEDSIDE Apply Desk, Bedside or Clear Calendar in one tap. Set night-dimming hours and brightness, or temporarily brighten the display with a tap. The readable mode brings up a high-contrast calendar while preserving your chosen theme. DISPLAY AND POWER OPTIONS Choose charging-only keep-awake, low-battery protection and optional pixel shifting for longer foreground sessions. Add flip, LCD or clear clock widgets to your Home Screen on iOS 17 or later; the clear face also supports a Lock Screen widget. Widget updates are managed by iOS and do not display seconds. No account and no ads. Your settings and custom quotes stay on your device. Optional automatic network time synchronization can be switched off in Settings. When disabled, the app uses device time and sends no NTP time-sync requests. The clock also works offline. Full-screen keep-awake works only while the app is open in the foreground. It does not replace the system Lock Screen or StandBy. Pixel shifting does not guarantee protection against screen burn-in.

Screenshots

Strange Clocks4 screens
Big Face Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Big Face Clock at none against Strange Clocks's 1. Big Face Clock also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Strange Clocks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Big Face Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Strange Clocks versus Big Face Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrange ClocksBig Face Clock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKIP Networksε…‹ ηŽ‹

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Strange Clocks

One-time1
  • Unlock all 15 clocks$1.99
None

Big Face Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strange Clocks free?
Strange Clocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Big Face Clock free?
Big Face Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Strange Clocks or Big Face Clock have ads?
Neither Strange Clocks nor Big Face Clock shows ads.

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