Comparison

Alarm Clock Pro vs Nightstand Digital Clock Timer

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

Head to head
About

Alarm Clock Pro

Wake up to your favorite music or nature sounds, view local weather, and use a built-in flashlight. This app transforms your device into a customizable digital clock with designer themes and background alarm support.

Highlights
  • Customizable designer clock themes
  • Wake-up playlists with own music
  • Background alarm support
  • Gentle sleep timer with nature sounds
  • Live local weather updates
  • Built-in flashlight
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Alarm Clock Pro4 screens
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Nightstand Digital Clock Timer at Free against Alarm Clock Pro's $4.99. Nightstand Digital Clock Timer also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 41%). Alarm Clock Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (99 vs 20). On rating, 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

Nightstand Digital Clock Timer is free to download; Alarm Clock Pro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Alarm Clock Pro against 4.3 for Nightstand Digital Clock Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of Alarm Clock Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of Nightstand Digital Clock Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alarm Clock Pro ships an update every 9 months, Nightstand Digital Clock Timer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Alarm Clock Pro versus Nightstand Digital Clock Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlarm Clock ProNightstand Digital Clock Timer
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (99 ratings)4.3 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.8% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings99 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDylogicApps Pvt LtdSiarhei Krasnouski

Customer experience

Alarm Clock Pro

All ratings99 ratings
Positive76.8%
Neutral8.1%
Negative15.2%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive40.8%
Neutral15.5%
Negative43.7%

Nightstand Digital Clock Timer

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Alarm Clock Pro

Reported bugs

39 issues
  • App keeps freezing on random alarms
  • Alarm times are mixed up
  • The 'never' option for operating time does not work
  • App keeps crashing on opening
  • App crashes all the time on open
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  • App keeps crashing
  • App keeps shutting down
  • Alarm did not go off
  • Cannot update on iPhone XS Max
  • App crashes when auto-locking
  • Alarm does not sound when phone is locked
  • Tapping display rotation on iPad freezes the OS
  • Auto-lock function cannot be selected
  • Snooze music freezes the app
  • Built-in white noise sounds have an annoying hum
  • Playback fails for custom music tracks (white/brown noise, regular music)
  • Volume adjustment is difficult; only adjusts phone volume, needs re-verification
  • Location is always displayed as 'unknown city'
  • Alarm stops playing sound (silent alarm)
  • App does not work on a locked screen
  • App vibrates once then freezes after an update
  • Cannot report problems or contact support (links not working)
  • Weather display not working for several weeks
  • Paid app still shows advertisements
  • App freezes when trying to play music on sleep timer
  • Horizontal line at the bottom for swiping up is too bright and stays on
  • App continuously changes from landscape mode and shrinks
  • Corners and bottom center line remain on and in bright white mode
  • App does not always go into landscape view
  • App does not stay on the phone screen all night
  • 95% of the clock is below the screen on iPhone 13
  • Impossible to delete automatic screen lock
  • Weather forecast is unusable
  • Digital alarm clock stopped working
  • City name is in English after purchase, despite Korean in screenshots
  • Font resolution is unclear
  • Cannot play own music
  • Shuffle setting for playlists is not effective
  • App crashes when trying to select auto-lock time

Requested features

25 requests
  • Moon phase display
  • Indication of phone charging status
  • Larger fonts for date and weather
  • Improve sound quality for sleep sounds
  • Fix playback of custom music tracks
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  • Fix volume adjustment issues
  • Fix 'unknown city' location display
  • Fix alarm sound not playing
  • Fix app not working on locked screen
  • Fix app freezing/crashing after updates
  • Fix auto-lock feature not working
  • Fix sleep timer music playback
  • Remove bright horizontal line at bottom
  • Allow custom color themes (e.g., amber)
  • Improve landscape mode functionality
  • Ensure app stays on screen all night
  • Adjust clock display for different phone models (e.g., iPhone 13)
  • Fix auto screen lock deletion issue
  • Fix weather forecast functionality
  • Improve font resolution for better readability
  • Allow playback of own music for sleep timer
  • Implement random mode for playlist alarms
  • Improve sleep timer volume control
  • Fix shuffle setting for playlists
  • Improve automatic lock time selection

Nightstand Digital Clock Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alarm Clock Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Nightstand Digital Clock Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alarm Clock Pro free?
Alarm Clock Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nightstand Digital Clock Timer free?
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Alarm Clock Pro or Nightstand Digital Clock Timer?
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer is rated higher. Alarm Clock Pro averages 4.2 out of 5 from 99 ratings, while Nightstand Digital Clock Timer averages 4.3 from 20 ratings.
Do Alarm Clock Pro or Nightstand Digital Clock Timer have ads?
Nightstand Digital Clock Timer shows ads; Alarm Clock Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Alarm Clock Pro or Nightstand Digital Clock Timer?
Alarm Clock Pro ships an update every 9 months, and Nightstand Digital Clock Timer every 4 days. Most recently, Alarm Clock Pro was updated on November 6, 2026 and Nightstand Digital Clock Timer on November 3, 2026.

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