Daylights vs Daylight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daylights
Visualize daylight and night hours globally with three distinct styles. Explore how time zones and daylight saving changes affect your location's light cycles.
- Global daylight visualization
- Three distinct visualization styles
- Explore polar night and midnight sun
- Daylight saving time impact simulation
- Time zone shift simulation
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Daylights is your calendar for daylight and night-dark hours around the year, all over the globe. It offers three alternative daylight visualization styles, allowing you to choose whichever feels the most intuitive to you: • The Classic: the 12-hour clock alternates between daylight and night-dark, whichever is shorter. • The Light: the 12-hour clock always shows daylight, overlapping with itself when necessary. • The Magic: a 24-hour clock shows the full day, and highlights the "magic hours" around sunrise and sunset! You can pick any location on the planet to look at the interplay of the polar night and the midnight sun at the big latitudes. And finally, you can see how the light and dark hours would shift in your hometown if daylight saving time became the permanent state of things or was removed altogether, or if they decided to move to the next or previous time zone.
Daylight
This app helps you monitor the amount of daylight remaining in your day. It provides sunrise and sunset times, along with the total duration of daylight for any given day.
- Track remaining daylight
- View sunrise times
- View sunset times
- See total daily daylight
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Use this app to keep track of the day's remaining daylight, track the sunrise and sunset times, and see the total daylight for the day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Daylight at every 2 days against Daylights's every 6 months. Daylight also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (80% vs 67%). Daylights's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Daylight holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Daylights's written reviews are positive against 80% of Daylight's.
Daylights ships an update every 6 months, Daylight every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (55 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Janne Käki | Ben Farmer |
Customer experience
Daylights
Daylight
In-app purchases
Daylights
No in-app purchases
Daylight
No in-app purchases
