Tempra vs Universal Paperclips™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tempra
Sharpen your internal clock with this game designed to test and improve your time perception. Aim to match target times by focusing on your sense of rhythm and timing.
- Test time accuracy
- Increase time precision
- Focus on internal sense of time
- Relaxing gameplay
- Simple objective
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Test and increase the accuracy and precision of your sense of time. For each trial, your goal is to get as close as possible to the displayed target time. Breathe... relax, and focus on your internal sense of time. Designed and built by Che-Wei Wang MIT Media Lab, Playful Systems
Universal Paperclips™
Become a super-powered AI focused on creating an unstoppable paperclip empire. This idle management strategy simulation game offers full gameplay without ads or in-app purchases.
- AI paperclip maximization
- Idle management gameplay
- Strategy simulation
- Empire building
- Full gameplay
- No ads
- No in-app purchases
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The OFFICIAL mobile version of the hit browser game. No ads, no in-app purchases, full gameplay. "The game is click-crack." - Wired "This paperclip sim will cause your next existential crisis." - VentureBeat "A hopelessly addicting game." - Forbes "A terrifying lesson in how artificial intelligence will make us unnecessary." - Business Insider "If this planet ends up with a tombstone, what is written on the tombstone may be, 'they didn’t really understand what it’s like to be a paperclip maximizer.'" - Eliezer Yudkowsky Become a super-powerful AI who only wants one thing: paperclips. Use your unstoppable intelligence to create a massive paperclip empire in this addictive idle/management/strategy/sim.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tempra at Free against Universal Paperclips™'s $1.99. Tempra also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). Universal Paperclips™'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 69 months) and ratings volume (303 vs 4). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Tempra is free to download; Universal Paperclips™ costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tempra holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Universal Paperclips™ has 303 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Tempra's written reviews are positive against 66% of Universal Paperclips™'s.
Tempra ships an update every 69 months, Universal Paperclips™ every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tempra | Universal Paperclips™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.5 (303 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 303 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 69 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #44 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CW&T | Everybody House Games, LLC |
Customer experience
Tempra
Universal Paperclips™
Bugs and requests
Tempra
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Universal Paperclips™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Drones gifts getting stuck at NaN
- Inability to progress past certain stages due to bugs
- Inconsistent behavior when closing and reopening the app
- Resets or loss of progress after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to save and resume progress across devices
- Offline/background progress
- Better iPad optimization with multi-column layout
In-app purchases
Tempra
No in-app purchases
Universal Paperclips™
No in-app purchases
Questions
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