Comparison

DESSMANN vs Needless Clock

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

Head to head
About

DESSMANN

Control smart home and security devices like fingerprint locks, access control, and parking locks remotely with your mobile phone. Upgrade security standards and simplify your life by eliminating the need for traditional keys.

Highlights
  • Fingerprint lock control
  • Smart home device management
  • Access control integration
  • Parking lock operation
  • Enhanced security standards
  • Keyless convenience
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DESSMANN series products mainly includes fingerprint locks, as well as a series of smart home and security products such as Access Control, Safe and Parking Lock. With your mobile phone you can easily and conveniently control these products, upgrade the product security standards to a new height. No need to worry about the keys, life has never been so easy and comfortable. What’s more, we also solve the cumbersome installation problems of traditional products. This series of products is dedicated to creating high-end and worry-free community life services, bringing new and high-quality life to the owners.

About

Needless Clock

This app offers a collection of living, animated clocks that display time through unique visual narratives. Interact with the scenes to alter elements and enjoy a calming visual experience that goes beyond simple timekeeping.

Highlights
  • Living, animated clock designs
  • Interactive visual elements
  • Customizable clock scenes
  • Scheduled display dimming
  • Short clock film creation
  • No ads or third-party tracking
Features
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People do not open Needless Clock merely to find out the time. More often, they want the glowing screen beside them to grow quiet without becoming empty: something to glance at between tasks, a little light at night, time passing without hurrying anyone along. Needless Clock is a collection of living, animated clocks. They all keep the same real time, but each inhabits a world of its own. Fish turn through water, birds arrive from far away, ants hurry under the weight of a treat, cars follow the painted lines of a car park, and a brush writes numerals in water. At the turn of a minute the picture wakes; once everything has found its place, only small movements, wings, shadows and breathing remain. TIME HAS TWELVE PLACES TO GO Fish gather into figures. Touch the water and those nearby scatter, then swim home along their own curved paths. Birds perch on five wires. Some leave at the next minute, others find a new place, and now and then a distant bird crosses the clouds. Tap once and the sky sinks beneath the sea, the flock becoming fish of different forms. Ants carry biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish, winter-melon candy and leaves. Cars pull into bays. Metal blocks fall one by one. These digits are not displayed; they are made. Water runs from a brush onto stone and disappears first from the finest ends of the strokes. Oracle bone, bronze, seal and clerical scripts sit beside the hands of Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Huang Tingjian, letting one numeral travel through centuries. A gnomon casts its shadow among the twelve Earthly Branches, its length changing through the twenty-four solar terms. There is also a wall of cooperating clock faces, a luminous word clock, figures revealed by paper and shadow, and mechanical flaps that fall like those once heard in stations and airports. GOOD JUST LEFT THERE Swipe to move between clocks. Tap to change a material, colour or world. Or choose a few favourites and let them rotate by themselves, from every minute to every hour. At night the display can dim on your schedule. Keep the screen awake, or hide the title, date and time zone until only time remains. It belongs on an iPhone stand, across an iPad, beside a Mac workspace, or spread quietly over the television in a living room. A MOMENT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU On supported devices, Share waits for the next minute. It keeps the stillness before the change and stops after the movement has come to rest, making a short clock film to save or send. No account, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The clocks and their calculations stay on the device. Location is off by default and, if enabled, is used only to let the car park grow dark near your own sunset. Supports Reduce Motion and VoiceOver. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while.

Screenshots

DESSMANN3 screens
Needless Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Needless Clock at every 3 days against DESSMANN's every 2 months. Needless Clock also leads on device support (4 vs 2). DESSMANN's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DESSMANN ships an update every 2 months, Needless Clock every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DESSMANN versus Needless Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDESSMANNNeedless Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZhejiang Desman Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.路 林

Customer experience

DESSMANN

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

Needless Clock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DESSMANN

No in-app purchases

None

Needless Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DESSMANN free?
DESSMANN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Needless Clock free?
Needless Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DESSMANN or Needless Clock have ads?
Neither DESSMANN nor Needless Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DESSMANN or Needless Clock?
DESSMANN ships an update every 2 months, and Needless Clock every 3 days. Most recently, DESSMANN was updated on October 5, 2026 and Needless Clock on October 10, 2026.

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