Clock Simplicity vs Beautiful New Tabs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clock Simplicity
A clean and straightforward weather clock app that displays the time and current weather conditions. It offers simple controls for changing color schemes and screen brightness, and prevents your screen from locking while in use.
- Displays time and current weather
- Adjustable color schemes (dark/light)
- Screen brightness control
- Prevents screen lock
- Clean and straightforward interface
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Finally, a simple weather clock that is clean and straightforward. No ads, no accounts, no setup. Same promise kept since 2018. Launch it and you have the time, the date, and what the weather is doing right now. Set the device down on a nightstand, a desk or a kitchen counter and leave it there — the screen won't lock while the app is open. THE TIME, AS BIG AS YOU WANT IT Pinch out and the time fills the entire screen, edge to edge, so you can read it from across the room or from the doorway. Pinch in to bring it back to its usual size. In landscape the digits run on a single line; in portrait the hours stack over the minutes. SIX COLOR THEMES Black & White, Ocean, Cyan, Lime, Coral and Fuchsia — each with a light side and a dark side. Swipe two fingers left or right to move through them, or pick one in Settings. Double-tap anywhere to flip between light and dark. Every pairing is chosen to stay legible in a dark room, and the light themes lift as you dim the screen so they hold up at night. WEATHER FROM APPLE WEATHER The current temperature on an arc gauge that shows the day's full range at a glance, with a marker pointing the way the temperature is heading. Conditions, humidity, and severe weather alerts when there are any. Double-tap the temperature to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Lose signal and your last reading stays right where it was. GESTURES THAT STAY OUT OF THE WAY Swipe two fingers up or down to set the screen brightness — two fingers rather than one, so picking the phone up or putting it down doesn't dim it by accident. A "?" in the corner opens a page that explains every gesture, and nothing here is gesture-only: everything can be done from Settings too. Works on iPhone and iPad. Available in English and Hebrew.
Beautiful New Tabs
Enhance your browsing experience with stunning wallpapers on every new tab. This extension for Safari displays gorgeous photos from Unsplash and provides local weather information, adapting to your device's dark or light mode.
- Customizable new tab page
- High-quality Unsplash wallpapers
- Local weather display
- Dark/light mode support
- Privacy-focused design
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Why not look at a beautiful photograph when you open a new tab? Beautiful New Tabs is an extension for Safari that replaces your new tab page with a gorgeous wallpaper. Images are pulled from Unsplash, a repository for beautiful photographs. Images can be anything you want - nature, cats, lizards or fruit, anything. Beautiful New Tabs also shows the weather for your location. The interface for the weather and the rest of the page responds to dark and light mode, looking good on any theme. Try a simple, beautiful way to open new tabs. ## Purchasing Beautiful New Tabs contains no in-app purchases. Buy once and own forever. Buying this version for iOS also unlocks Beautiful New Tabs for Mac. ## Privacy Beautiful New Tabs caches whatever you put into the weather search field locally on your computer so it can display the correct weather when you open a new tab. It does not store or share this information with any third party. This app does not use any: - Tracking of any kind - Third-party software libraries or SDKs
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beautiful New Tabs at 5.0 against Clock Simplicity's 4.5. Beautiful New Tabs also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Clock Simplicity's advantage is chart position (#184 vs unranked) and update cadence (every 9 months vs every 19 months). 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
Clock Simplicity costs $0.99 and Beautiful New Tabs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beautiful New Tabs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Clock Simplicity ships an update every 9 months, Beautiful New Tabs every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clock Simplicity | Beautiful New Tabs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #184 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Raz Yalov | Kyle Nazario |
Customer experience
Clock Simplicity
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In-app purchases
Clock Simplicity
No in-app purchases
Beautiful New Tabs
No in-app purchases
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