WatchTheTime vs TimeGlance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WatchTheTime
Customize your Apple Watch with a variety of digital time and date complications. Personalize colors, formats, and even offsets to create a unique watch face. Supports multiple complications and all Apple Watch styles.
- Digital time and date complications
- AM/PM toggle
- Color customization
- Custom date formats
- Multiple complications
- 24-hour format support
- Time/date offset
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This app allows you to: - Choose a date and/or digital time complication for your Apple Watch - Enable AM/PM on digital time complication - Change the color (where available) for both the date and the digital time Apple Watch complications - Change the date format from default options, or specify a custom format - Use multiple Apple Watch complications at the same time - Support for all complication styles, including Apple Watch Series 4 complications - 24-time format - Support for your Apple Watch's language - Custom time/date offset by hour and minute Requires: - Compatible Apple Watch running watchOS 4+ - Compatible iPhone paired to Apple Watch
TimeGlance
This app adds a digital time complication to any watch face, updating every minute with the correct time. It supports all complication types and watch faces, offering customization for time format, date display, and time zones. The app functions independently of your phone.
- Digital time complication for any watch face
- Updates every minute
- Supports all complication types
- Standalone watch app
- Customizable time formats (24h, 12h, military)
- Multiple date formats or hide date
- Time zone selection
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If the app does not show on your Watch after purchase please go to App Store on your watch (not phone) - scroll to bottom - Account - Purchased - and download from here. This app provides a digital time complication for all complication types on any watch face. - Updates every minute, always showing correct time - All complications and watch faces supported - Standalone watch app, all features can be used without your phone - Choose between 24 hour, 12 hour (AM/PM), or military time - Choose from 8 date formats from simple short ones to full dates, or hide the date. - Actual date format and language is localized to the region and language settings of your device - Time zone selection. Any ±24h offset from UTC or local time. - Set text color of complication (only works for multicolor watch faces) - Switch lines of time and date
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: WatchTheTime at Free against TimeGlance's $0.99. WatchTheTime also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). TimeGlance's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
WatchTheTime is free to download; TimeGlance costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.6 for WatchTheTime against 3.7 for TimeGlance. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 106 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of WatchTheTime's written reviews are positive against 63% of TimeGlance's.
WatchTheTime ships an update every 2 weeks, TimeGlance every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | WatchTheTime | TimeGlance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (39 ratings) | 3.7 (106 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 63.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 106 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #123 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Dama | Andras Solyom |
Customer experience
WatchTheTime
TimeGlance
Bugs and requests
WatchTheTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TimeGlance
Reported bugs
3 issues- Time getting stuck or showing incorrect time
- Complication disappearing after watch reset
- Issues with reinstalling the app
Requested features
4 requests- Option to hide time and show only date
- Ability to adjust font size
- More color customization options
- Support for multiple time zones
In-app purchases
WatchTheTime
No in-app purchases
TimeGlance
No in-app purchases
