Digital Clock vs Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digital Clock
This app transforms your device into a stylish LED bedside clock with customizable skins and dynamic time displays. It offers alarm functionality, voice time broadcasts, and a countdown timer, perfect for your desk or nightstand.
- Display time in seconds
- Customizable clock skins
- Alarm with music selection
- Hourly voice broadcast
- Countdown timer
- Home and lock screen widgets
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Transform your desk with a minimalist LED digital clock, standby display, and focus timer — designed for Dynamic Island, Lock Screen, and Home Screen widgets. - Live Second Precision: Real-time clock display with seconds across Dynamic Island, Standby Screen, Lock Screen, and Home Screen widgets. - Custom Clock Skins: Eye-catching LED digital clock designs, themes, and customizable bedside displays. - Flexible Display: Toggle between 12-hour/24-hour time formats and easily hide week and date displays. - Smart Alarms & Chimes: Custom alarm sounds, music library, and hourly voice time broadcasts. - Pomodoro Focus Timer: Stay focused on work and study with customizable break intervals. - Stopwatch & Countdown Timer: High-precision timer for workouts, cooking, productivity, and study. - Target Date & Event Countdown: Track important milestones, project deadlines, holidays, and event countdowns.
Now
This app verbally announces the current date and time, offering a simple solution for those who struggle with timekeeping or find complex calendar interfaces overwhelming. It features customizable read-out intervals and supports multiple languages.
- Verbal date and time announcement
- Automatic read-outs
- Digital and analog clock interfaces
- Multiple language support
- Customizable intervals
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Sometimes you just want to someone to tell you what day it is. Whether you are suffering from temporal disintegration, loses track of time or just get confused by calendar apps with overwhelming user interfaces - you are not alone. Press the text to get it read to you, or set it up for automatic read-outs on predefined intervals. Digital and/or analog clock interfaces. Available in multiple languages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Digital Clock at 67% against Now's 0%. Digital Clock also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (69K vs 5). Now's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Digital Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Now sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Digital Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digital Clock has 69K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Digital Clock's written reviews are positive against 0% of Now's.
Digital Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, Now every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digital Clock | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (69K ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 69K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊杰 阮 | Aktiebolaget Kattbjorn |
Customer experience
Digital Clock
Now
Bugs and requests
Digital Clock
Reported bugs
6 issues- Alarm doesn't sound if device is in silent mode
- Alarm doesn't work
- Time display is wrong
- Widget doesn't show correct time
- App crashes frequently
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- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
9 requests- Dark mode option
- More skins please ie: pixie (tube); RGB sliders
- Ability to input own music for alarm
- Vertical display
- Battery percentage and reminder
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- Ability to change alarm sounds
- Portrait mode
- Bigger clock display
- Transparent widget
Now
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Digital Clock
- All clock styles$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Pro Version$2.99
Now
- Now - Premium$1.99
