Clock is a native utility for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that provides alarms, timers, stopwatches, and world clocks.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Utilities
Sentiment
3.8
359k reviews
Nemesis
Interval Timer for Tasks
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
It removes the friction of managing daily routines by integrating directly with system-level Health schedules and Sleep Focus settings.
For General mobile users requiring basic time management tools like alarms, timers, and world clocks.
What does it look like?
Key features
Syncs wake up alarms with Health app schedules.
Allows custom alarm tones from Apple Music.
Runs multiple countdown timers with custom labels.
How much does it cost?
Clock is a free utility bundled with the operating system, serving as a platform retention tool.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentopaqueperformanceShow more...
The app exhibits a very low release cadence, with only two updates recorded over the last nine months. This equates to approximately 0.05 releases per week, falling well below the threshold for active development. Both the latest release and the previous version contain only generic, opaque notes regarding bug fixes and stability. There is no evidence of new features or live operations, indicating a maintenance-focused development cycle.
Who built it?
Jatisari Inovasi Studio
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans frustrated. Users appreciate simple and functional interface design provides a straightforward experience for users who prefer basic utility, but report silent alarms failing to trigger sound or vibration cause significant user frustration and missed daily commitments.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Weekly average review rating
What users say, by theme
- Simple and functional interface design provides a straightforward experience for users who prefer basic utility
- Silent alarms failing to trigger sound or vibration cause significant user frustration and missed daily commitments
120 of 2321 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Clock
How's the Utilities market?
Clock maintains a native presence on iOS, yet holds a 2.5-star rating across 18,144 reviews. This low satisfaction score despite platform-level distribution signals that the current version's reliability issues are actively driving users toward third-party alternatives.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Foobar Creative
This app competes directly with this app's timer and alarm functionality by offering a specialized, high-frequency task management experience for power users.
- Offers deep Apple Watch integration for hands-free timer management during active tasks
- Supports complex Siri Shortcuts to trigger multi-timer sequences without opening the app
- Provides specialized multi-timer execution workflows that this app currently lacks
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Key takeaways for Clock
Where is it heading?
The utility market is consolidating around specialized, high-reliability tools that offer more granular control than native apps. Clock's maintenance-mode cadence leaves it exposed, as the current reliability failures provide a clear opening for rivals to capture the user base.
- Persistent silent alarm bugs in the latest release continue to trigger negative reviews, accelerating user migration to third-party alternatives.
- The lack of granular volume and snooze settings creates a feature gap that rivals are actively exploiting to capture power users.
The SWOT
- Native system-level integration ensures background performance
- Zero-cost, ad-free experience provides a clean interface
- Granular snooze duration controls address top-requested features
- Independent alarm volume settings reduce system-wide friction
Next best moves
Audit alarm trigger logic because silent alarm failures are the #1 complaint → restore user trust
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's native integration is currently a liability…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Advanced multi-timer sequencing (available in Interval Timer for Tasks but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's reliability crisis has intensified, with total review volume rising to 2,321 and new complaints regarding interface regressions emerging alongside persistent silent alarm failures.
Bottom line
Clock's failure to maintain basic alarm reliability is eroding its value as a system utility. Prioritizing a fix for silent alarm triggers would address the core churn driver, preventing further migration to third-party alternatives that offer more predictable performance.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 2 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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Is Clock reliable for important wake-up alarms?
How does Clock compare to Interval Timer for Tasks?
What is a reliable alternative to Clock for timers?
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