PlainTick Flip Clock vs Punctum

Make time easy to read with PlainTick Flip Clock. A quiet full-screen clock for your iPhone and iPad, with flip animations, dark and light skins, and tools for everyday timing. CLOCK • Portrait and landscape layouts • Optional seconds, date and current weather • 24-hour time with a choice of time zone • Sixteen skins, including classic, outline, geometric and handwritten styles; swipe up or down on the clock to switch • Automatic night dimming based on your device’s local time TIMERS AND FOCUS • Count up, count down or set a target date and time • Start, pause, resume and reset • Pomodoro work and break sessions with adjustable lengths • Optional timer notifications, daily alarms and hourly chimes • Optional ambient audio WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES • Four Home Screen widgets: ivory flip clock, sundial with a night moondial, retro cassette and retro radio, in small, medium and large sizes • Widgets show the date, current weather and a monthly calendar; the cassette reels, radio needle and flip clock gear move • Widget seconds follow your Show seconds setting • The small widget also works in StandBy • Live Activities for the clock and countdowns on supported devices No account required. No ads. Skins are included. Available in 22 languages with 28 locale variants. Weather requires internet access and optional location permission; weather data is provided by Open-Meteo. The clock and timers work offline. iOS manages widget update timing and Live Activity duration; seconds may update less often in some system display states. Notifications require permission. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17 or later.

Punctum is a dot-matrix clock for your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Every character is drawn dot by dot, in a typeface made for the grid, with the weight and roundness of the dots in your hands. A CLOCK THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY Time and date, a timer, your next calendar event, the song that is playing, and the battery. Pick what the display shows and how it moves. Dot size and shape are yours to set, and the display rolls from one value to the next. FULL DISPLAY Dock your iPhone and Punctum fills the whole screen, dimmed and quiet, as a bedside clock. Nothing but the dots, with a slow drift that protects the screen. WIDGETS AND WATCH Small Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, an Apple Watch app, and an Apple TV app, all in the same dots. PUNCTUM PRO, ONE PURCHASE Unlock everything once and keep it, shared with your family: - Live weather with 17 dot-drawn icons - Phosphor green and Night red inks, and a night schedule - Up to four timers, five rotating messages, and a live timer on the Lock Screen - Medium and Large widgets, and Apple Watch complications - Alternate app icons No account, no ads, no tracking. Punctum collects no data. Try everything free for 7 days. Then unlock the full app with a single one-time purchase. No subscription.