Digital Clock vs WaitMate
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.
WaitMate
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WaitMate is a simple local-first timer for tracking personal waiting sessions. Start a timer, pause or resume when needed, then save the session with an optional label, note, rating, and details for your own private history. Use WaitMate to keep a clear local record of everyday waiting moments and review your patterns later. Features: - Start, pause, resume, stop, and save wait sessions - Add optional private labels and notes - Review local session history - See personal stats, trends, bars, and breakdowns - Set personal goals from saved sessions - Earn milestones and track progress - Use widgets and Live Activities where available - Light and dark interface support - Optional WaitMate Pro for expanded history, analytics, goals, and Pro features WaitMate is a local-first personal utility. It does not provide paid personal services, marketplaces, booking, dispatch, work matching, compensation tracking, wage calculation, invoices, shared accounts, chat, public profiles, cloud sync, financial advice, legal advice, or medical advice. Privacy Policy: https://projectfunapps.com/apps/waitmate/privacy Terms: https://projectfunapps.com/apps/waitmate/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: WaitMate at none against Digital Clock's shown. WaitMate also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Digital Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and WaitMate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Digital Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, WaitMate monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digital Clock | WaitMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (69K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 俊杰 阮 | Oleksandr Martynin |
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
WaitMate
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
WaitMate
- WaitMate Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- WaitMate Pro Yearly$12.991 Year
Questions
Is Digital Clock free?
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Do Digital Clock or WaitMate have ads?
Which is updated more often, Digital Clock or WaitMate?
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