A Word Clock vs Ukulele Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A Word Clock
This utility displays the current time using natural language phrases instead of digits. It offers spoken output, multiple language options, and customizable themes. A widget is also available for quick glances, maintaining your chosen settings.
- Time displayed in words
- Optional spoken output
- Multiple language support
- Customizable color themes
- Widget support
- "Lazy time" phrasing
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Read the time as words, at a glance. Swipe between a large word clock, digital and analog clocks, date and optional location details, a comparison of relaxed and exact time, and a past–present–future timeline. Choose from expressive themes and high-contrast color palettes. Adjust text size, switch between approximate and exact wording, and tap the clock to hear the time spoken aloud. Time phrases are available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. Add the Home Screen widget to see the time in words without opening the app. Your language and appearance settings carry over to the widget. Location is optional and used only for the details view.
Ukulele Notepad
This app allows ukulele players to quickly create, edit, and share song ideas using a touch-friendly tab editor. It supports custom tunings, various musical techniques, and offers cloud saving and PDF export options.
- Create and edit ukulele tabs
- Custom tunings and string support
- Add chords, lyrics, and performance notes
- Cloud saving and email sharing
- Export to PDF or text
- Autoscroll for playback
- Left-handed view option
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Ukulele Notepad helps you easily and quickly jot down song ideas in guitar tab, save them to the cloud and email them to band mates. I created this app as I found that when playing around with ideas on my own, or after a jam session, I was still using paper to jot down ideas. I have tried some of the other tab writing apps out there but none of them used the touch screen like a guitar fret board which really speeds things up. I'm keen to make this app as useful as possible so please feel free to contact me if you want any new features added. Create and Edit Tab: - Edit song details like title, artist, transcribed by and tempo - Add time signatures, lyrics and performance notes - Add chords, strum patterns and lyrics above your tabbed notes (no other apps I've seen support this!) - Add any number of strings and custom tunings including 4,5,6 and 7 string guitars/bass guitars - Use touch screen to quickly add notes with a single tap - Choose from common chord patterns to save time - Add techniques likes slides, hammer ons, pull offs muted notes, harmonics, tremolo, vibrato, ghosts/ties, tapping and more - Backspace as well as delete button for faster editing - Cut, copy and paste sections of tab, even between different songs - Undo button - the last 10 actions are recorded and can be undone - Continuous chord mode - saves having to perform an extra tap to start adding chords - Option to view notes on the fret board - Supports repeated bar notation - Tab Playback (no note modulation for now) - Can change guitar neck to left handed view - Supports note lengths from whole notes to 1/64, dotted notes and triplets - Add a capo View, Export and Share: - Export to PDF or text - Transpose songs up and down - Organize songs by artists or use tags to create albums and setlists - Use autoscroll to view tabs and play along - Layout optimised for both tablets and phones - Zoom in and out depending on your screen size - Print from device - Save songs to file in your cloud storage like Dropbox, or export via email. - Ability to perform a full backup and restore - useful if you are switching devices - Import songs shared from other people's Guitar Notepad apps - View and search through your songs by title, artist name or last modified time
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ukulele Notepad at every 2 months against A Word Clock's every 6 months. Ukulele Notepad also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). A Word Clock's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
A Word Clock costs $0.99 and Ukulele Notepad $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
A Word Clock ships an update every 6 months, Ukulele Notepad every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A Word Clock | Ukulele Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | — | 3.5 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raymund Vorwerk | Codefad |
Customer experience
A Word Clock
Ukulele Notepad
In-app purchases
A Word Clock
No in-app purchases
Ukulele Notepad
No in-app purchases
Questions
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