Periyava Radio vs TrueOffset
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Periyava Radio
Access a 24/7 online radio stream dedicated to spiritual teachings and discourses. Explore a collection of audio, video, and articles focused on the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam and its acharyas to aid spiritual growth.
- 24/7 online radio stream
- Audio and video content
- Articles on acharyas
- Spiritual progress resources
- Focus on Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam
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Kanchi Sankara is an application dedicated to spread the teachings of the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam and their acharyas. This application is intended to the master portal of several applications related to acharyas to help devotees spiritually progress. This includes first ever 24x7 online radio for Kanchi Periyava and various audios/videos and other articles related to Kanchi Mahaperiyava
TrueOffset
This app precisely measures your device's clock accuracy against global time servers. It offers multiple clock faces, time scales, and audible time signals, including radio time codes. Analyze time source quality with detailed charts and compare IPv4/IPv6 responses.
- NTP server comparison
- Multiple clock faces (analog, digital, NTP offset)
- UTC & TAI time scales
- Audible time signals and radio time codes
- Dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 comparison
- Flexible time source selection
- Quality analytics charts
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TrueOffset measures how far your iPhone or iPad's clock is from the world's time servers, and which way. Compare Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers with one another, see how far apart they are, and set any of them as your reference. FIVE CLOCK FACES - 12-Hour Classic — Traditional analog display - 24-Hour Scientific — Full day on one dial - NTP Offset — Dual second hands show device vs. true time - Digital — Large display with millisecond precision - Time Code — A radio time code spelled out second by second UTC & TAI TIME SCALES Show Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and International Atomic Time (TAI), 37 seconds ahead of it, beside your local time, with deadbeat second hands that step on each second. TIME SIGNALS Hear the true second. Optional pips are timed against your NTP reference, so the start of each one marks the real second, not your device's idea of it. Choose from the classic broadcast signals, synthesized to their published pitch and timing: Six Pips (Greenwich Time Signal), WWV, WWVH, CHU, Jihō, Moscow Six Pips, and Australia's VNG. Sound them on the hour, every 15 minutes, or every minute. Bluetooth or AirPlay speaker running late? Measure its delay with the microphone and TrueOffset compensates. RADIO TIME CODES A clock sold as "atomic" is a radio listening to a distant station that spells out the time one second at a time. TrueOffset plays the codes of WWVB, DCF77, MSF, JJY (40 and 60 kHz), and BPC and shows each second being decoded as it is sent. Try setting a radio-controlled watch with it (beta), or switch on the DCF77 weather seconds to hear how Germany's station once sent a forecast. TRUEOFFSET MASTER CLOCK Our tribute to the U.S. Naval Observatory's telephone time service. A tick sounds every second while a voice announces your local time and then Universal Time, each ahead of a beep that lands on the true second. Prefer it quiet? Switch the voice off and keep the ticks. TrueOffset is not affiliated with the U.S. Naval Observatory. DUAL-STACK COMPARISON Ask one server over IPv4 and IPv6 side by side, to catch two different machines behind one name or a network that answers for both. FLEXIBLE TIME SOURCES Compare against Apple, Google, Cloudflare, NIST, US Naval Observatory, global NTP pools, or add your own servers. The default reference, ntp.trueoffset.app, is a Safran SecureSync 1200 with its own rubidium atomic clock. Set any source as your reference. QUALITY ANALYTICS Eight chart pages show the character of your time sources: - Overview — Every server at a glance - Offset History — Track drift over time - Offset Histogram — How the offsets are spread - Offset Range — Compare consistency across servers - Round Trip and Offset — See whether network delay moves the offset - Clock Sources — Decode reference clocks (GPS, PPS, Rubidium, Cesium) - IPv4 and IPv6 — Compare one server's two addresses - Rankings — Servers scored by jitter and round-trip time, with the steadiest named HELP IN THE APP What an offset is, why your clock drifts, what UTC and atomic time are, and what each screen shows, explained in the app. For anyone who cares how accurate their time really is, and wants to see the difference, not just trust it. Also on Apple TV. FOR TIMEKEEPERS: TRUEOFFSET FOR MAC Run your own time servers? The Mac app, free in this same listing, reads what they record about themselves and charts it, from six hours to a year: - NTPsec, ntpd, chrony, linuxptp, gpsd, Safran SecureSync, and Timebeat - Logs from a folder, or collected over SSH every hour, read-only - Offset, frequency, Allan deviation, temperature, peers, PTP, GNSS sky plots, and each machine's real-time clocks - Restarts, steps, and holdover found and marked, not averaged in - Your servers compared side by side as a fleet More at trueoffset.app/timekeepers --- In appreciation of Emerald Sequoia's Emerald Time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TrueOffset at fortnightly against Periyava Radio's every 13 months. TrueOffset also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Periyava Radio's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TrueOffset holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Periyava Radio's written reviews are positive against 100% of TrueOffset's.
Periyava Radio ships an update every 13 months, TrueOffset fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Periyava Radio | TrueOffset |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kanchi Guruparampara Foundation | Richard Bollar |
Customer experience
Periyava Radio
TrueOffset
In-app purchases
Periyava Radio
No in-app purchases
TrueOffset
No in-app purchases
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