Comparison

My Own Clock vs DimClock

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

Head to head
About

My Own Clock

Design personalized digital and analog clocks using your own photos as backgrounds. Customize fonts, colors, and textures to create unique timepieces. Save multiple clock designs for easy access.

Highlights
  • Custom photo backgrounds
  • 8 digital clock fonts
  • 22 digital clock textures
  • Customizable colors
  • Analog clock options
  • Movable, zoomable, rotatable clocks
  • Save up to 32 clock designs
Features
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My Own Clock is a nice clock app, that allows you to design your own beautifull clocks. You can use any image from your Camera Roll as the background for your clock. Design your digital clock, from 8 fonts, all colors and many textures. Or use one from analog clocks. You can create and save a lot of nice clocks, rotate, zoom and move it OPTIONS: - Auto lock - on, off - 12 or 24 Hours - Date - on, off - Many analog clocks - 8 fonts for digital clocks - 22 textures for digital clocks - Any colors for digital clocks - Digital clock - ordinary or raised - All clocks are freely movable, zoomable, rotatable - Up to 16 clocks digital and analog to save (total of up to 32) at the same time - Lock on, off, (for move the clock) - Adjust the brightness (pranks on the Display up and down if lock is closed) This is not an alarm clock!

About

DimClock

This app provides a simple, dimmable clock with customizable text colors for the time, date, and seconds. It's designed for low energy consumption by reducing screen backlight brightness.

Highlights
  • Dimmable backlight
  • Customizable text colors
  • Low energy consumption
  • Displays time, date, and seconds
  • Simple interface
Features
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DimClock is a dimmable simple clock app that works with low energy consumption by reducing brightness of backlight of iPhone screen. You can customize the brightness of the backlight and the color of the date, time, and seconds text.

Screenshots

My Own Clock4 screens
DimClock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DimClock at Free against My Own Clock's $1.99. DimClock also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 23 months). On review sentiment, 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

DimClock is free to download; My Own Clock costs $1.99 up front. My Own Clock sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. DimClock asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Own Clock ships an update every 23 months, DimClock every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
My Own Clock versus DimClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Own ClockDimClock
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (36 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.9% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings36 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 23 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.69.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander RutkowskijKatsuhiko Noda

Customer experience

My Own Clock

All ratings36 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive52.9%
Neutral17.6%
Negative29.4%

DimClock

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

My Own Clock

One-time2
  • 10 additional analog clocks$0.99
  • Space for 10 additional Clocks$0.99
None

DimClock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Own Clock free?
My Own Clock costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is DimClock free?
DimClock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Own Clock or DimClock have ads?
Neither My Own Clock nor DimClock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Own Clock or DimClock?
My Own Clock ships an update every 23 months, and DimClock every 5 days. Most recently, My Own Clock was updated on September 24, 2026 and DimClock on August 24, 2026.

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