Comparison

Time Note vs Clock and Almanac

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

Head to head
About

Time Note

Track and manage life events, from travel and work to family moments, all organized chronologically. Each entry includes a date, icon, details, and an optional photo, displayed on a single, easy-to-navigate timeline. Export your timeline as a photo to share with others.

Highlights
  • Event management by time
  • Add icons and photos to events
  • Single timeline display
  • Export timeline to photo
  • Share event timelines
Features
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Use time to manage your event ,travel,working,family that any thing can be connected by time. Each event has a time date, an icon, a event detail and a photo. Easy to use, there is no calendar grid, all thing will display on a single time line. All the timeline can be export to the 'photo' and share to anyone you like.

About

Clock and Almanac

This app helps you stay connected with people worldwide by providing accurate time zone information, multiple calendar systems, and details on global holidays and working days. Track time, sunrise/sunset, moon phases, and celestial events across different regions.

Highlights
  • World time zones with weather and sun/moon data
  • Multiple calendar systems (Gregorian, Chinese, Islamic, etc.)
  • Global public holidays and working days
  • Astronomical data (sunrise, sunset, moon phases)
  • Celestial events (eclipses, constellations)
  • 24 Solar Terms tracking
Features
Currently charting
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With the progress of globalization, we communicate with people all over the world more and more frequently. Or your friends and relatives go to work, study and live all over the world. So we need to be concerned about the time and time zone of their city, the calendar and working day arrangements of their country or region, and the national or religious holidays. Clock and Almanac is an APP to help you understand local time zones, world calendars, astronomical yearbooks, global festivals and public holidays. The calendar in the Clock and Almanac supports Gregorian Calendar, Chinese Calendar, Tibetan Calendar, Sexagenary cycle, Indian Calendar, Japanese Calendar, Thai Calendar, Islamic Calendar, Hebrew Calendar, Persian Calendar, and Julian Calendar. The festival supports traditional Chinese festivals, major festivals of Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Orthodox, Judaism, and international days. Support forty to fifty countries or regions on public holidays and working days. The Clock and Almanac is from time to day, month, year, era, and the time span is from small to large. The Clock and Almanac is divided into the following five parts: 1. Time: Five locations can be added to the list to display time and timezone, real-time weather, sun and moon locations . The world time zone distribution map displays the world day and night distribution in real time. 2. Day: Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, calendar dates of the day, public holidays on the day 3. Month: World calendars of this month . working day in different countries or regions . the rise and fall of the sun and moon, planets, constellations, major stars. 4. Year: calendar festivals and government public holidays,24 solar terms in a year, changes of moon phase in a year, and solar and lunar eclipses in a year 5. More: app settings and calendar era

Screenshots

Time Note3 screens
Clock and Almanac4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clock and Almanac at 4.6 against Time Note's 3.2. Clock and Almanac also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 34%) and ratings volume (198 vs 14). Time Note's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Time Note costs $2.99 and Clock and Almanac $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clock and Almanac holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clock and Almanac has 198 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Time Note's written reviews are positive against 64% of Clock and Almanac's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Time Note ships an update every 2 months, Clock and Almanac every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Time Note versus Clock and Almanac: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime NoteClock and Almanac
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating3.2 (14 ratings)4.6 (198 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.4% of reviews63.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14198 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 19 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank—#190 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer子浩 张雪平 王

Customer experience

Time Note

All ratings14 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral28.6%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive34.4%
Neutral31.3%
Negative34.4%

Clock and Almanac

All ratings198 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive63.8%
Neutral15.9%
Negative20.3%

Bugs and requests

Time Note

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Clock and Almanac

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Hebrew calendar shows wrong month/date
  • App crashes when accessing month and year
  • Location services required for country selection
  • Cannot delete or reorder locations
  • Newly added time entries cannot be deleted
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  • Swipe to delete/move locations does not work
  • Fahrenheit only, no Celsius option
  • Clock hands are unclear
  • Flashing error message
  • Default location is Argentina and cannot be changed
  • Time is incorrect (potentially due to DST)
  • Map resolution is poor, cannot zoom to read city names

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add more widgets (city clock, calendar, weather)
  • Improve map quality and zoom functionality
  • Allow deletion and reordering of locations
  • Add option to display local/city time in fullscreen
  • Add more international events daily
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  • Improve date format to DD/MM/YYYY
  • Add ability to link custom holidays/calendars
  • Add Ethiopian calendar with 13 months
  • Add Gregorian calendar day of the year
  • Add Julian date
  • Improve clarity of clock hands
  • Add Celsius option
  • Add UTC support
  • Add widgets for iPhone
  • Enable zoom on light/darkness map

In-app purchases

None

Time Note

No in-app purchases

None

Clock and Almanac

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time Note free?
Time Note costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clock and Almanac free?
Clock and Almanac costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Time Note or Clock and Almanac?
Clock and Almanac is rated higher. Time Note averages 3.2 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Clock and Almanac averages 4.6 from 198 ratings.
Do Time Note or Clock and Almanac have ads?
Neither Time Note nor Clock and Almanac shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Time Note or Clock and Almanac?
Time Note ships an update every 2 months, and Clock and Almanac every 19 months. Most recently, Time Note was updated on September 22, 2026 and Clock and Almanac on September 26, 2026.

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