Alarm Clock vs Nightstand Digital Clock Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alarm Clock
Wake up to your favorite music with customizable alarms and soothing nature sounds for sleep. This app also functions as a digital clock with weather updates and a built-in flashlight.
- Customizable music alarms
- Nature sounds sleep timer
- Digital clock with designer themes
- Live weather conditions
- Built-in flashlight
- Background alarm support
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Wake up to your favorite music feeling refreshed, view weather conditions in your area, go to sleep gently listening to soft sounds of nature, turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a beautiful digital clock, and light up the darkness with a powerful built-in flashlight. That's this Alarm Clock app! KEY FEATURES: • Select from gorgeous designer themes on the big LCD clock (Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Pink, Red and Yellow) • An elegant flip clock included for those who like variety • Create your own wake-up playlist with the best music. Choose from 46 pre-supplied alarm sounds or select multiple songs from your own iPod music • Background alarm support: alarm will ring even if the app is closed & your device is locked • Don't let bad weather take you by surprise. Stay up to date with your live weather conditions • Go to sleep gently listening to soft sounds of nature. Music fades-out & turns off automatically after your predefined time period • Support for both landscape and portrait modes • Shake your device or tap the torch button to switch on the flashlight • Adjust the screen brightness by just swiping your fingers • Convenient app settings allows you easy access to all app options CLOCK • Gorgeous color LCD display: Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Pink, Red and Yellow • Landscape and portrait modes • 12 or 24 hour time formats • Show/Hide seconds • Show/Hide date • Customizable auto-lock time • Auto Lock when on battery ON/OFF • Auto Lock when charger plugged in ON/OFF ALARM • Wake up to your favorite music • 46 built-in alarm sounds • Super big Stop/Snooze Alarm buttons • Customizable Snooze time duration • Shake to Snooze option • Setup unlimited alarms with different tunes • Background alarm support: alarm will ring even if the app is closed & your device is locked • Adjustable volume of alarm • Alarm music Fade-in option • Vibrate option • Next alarm time displayed on main screen • Each alarm's next fire time displayed in alarms screen SLEEP TIMER • Beautiful matching theme of sleep timer with the clock • Listen to beautiful sounds of nature & environment like Rain, Ocean, Waves, Stream, Water, Shower, White Noise, Pink Noise, Train, Fan, Heater etc. • Option to create your own sleeping playlist from iPod Music • Shuffle music ON/OFF • Sleep timer music Fade-out option • Adjustable volume of Sleep timer music WEATHER • View live weather conditions and temperature • Automatic detection of your current location and weather conditions for your area • Weather information is provided by the industry leader, Weather Underground • Support for both Fahrenheit and Celsius display • Show Weather ON/OFF FLASHLIGHT • Shake your device or tap the torch button to switch on the flashlight SUPPORT • Got any questions or have a suggestion to share, shoot us an email at help@dylogicapps.com
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer
Wake up and fall asleep to your favorite music with a customizable alarm and sleep timer. Features designer clock themes, countdowns to events, and easy access to settings. A reliable and versatile utility for managing your daily schedule.
- Designer clock themes
- Customizable wake-up playlists
- Sleep timer with music or white noise
- Event countdowns
- 12/24 hour format
- Vertical and horizontal modes
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Wake up and go to sleep to your favorite music, never sleep through your alarm again, get your own collection of designer clocks, countdown to important events! FEATURES: * Choose from stylish designer themes for the clock * Create your own wake-up playlist with the best music * Go to sleep to your favorite songs or white noise * Convenient app settings. Get easy access to any option you need Alarm Clock provides the functionality of 3 indispensable apps in 1: CLOCK - Exclusive designer clocks - Vertical and horizontal modes - 12 or 24 time format - Show/Hide seconds - Show/Hide day of the week - Auto-Lock when plugged in ON/OFF - Auto-Lock when on battery ON/OFF - Customizable auto-lock time SLEEP TIMER -Use the shortcut on the main screen to go directly to the sleep timer settings - Create your own playlist with your favorite songs - Shuffle music ON/OFF - Adjust the volume of Music/Sounds - Go to sleep to white noise COUNTDOWN - Never miss important events and special occasions. Count down to your vacation, anniversary, graduation and more Beautiful. Reliable. Versatile. Get the alarm clock that you've been looking for! For complete access to all Alarm Clock features, you will need to allow access to the following: *Notifications – otherwise, alarm will not ring; *Media library so that you can set your own music as an alarm or a sleep timer sound; *Photos to give you a possibility to set them as countdown pictures.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Nightstand Digital Clock Timer at every 4 days against Alarm Clock's every 4 months. Nightstand Digital Clock Timer also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Alarm Clock's advantage is ratings volume (126 vs 19). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alarm Clock has 126 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Alarm Clock's written reviews are positive against 50% of Nightstand Digital Clock Timer's.
Alarm Clock ships an update every 4 months, Nightstand Digital Clock Timer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alarm Clock | Nightstand Digital Clock Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (126 ratings) | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 126 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DylogicApps Pvt Ltd | Siarhei Krasnouski |
Customer experience
Alarm Clock
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer
In-app purchases
Alarm Clock
No in-app purchases
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer
No in-app purchases
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