WatchTheTime vs Digital Time
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
Digital Time
Display the current digital time directly on analog watch faces. This app enhances glanceability for users who prefer analog aesthetics but need quick access to precise time information. Customize time and date formats to suit your preferences.
- Digital time on analog faces
- Customizable time formats
- Customizable date formats
- Available on all non-digital watch faces
- Enhances glanceability
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This complication shows the digital time on analog watch faces. Perfect for those who like the look of an analog face without losing the glanceability of a digital clock! This complication is available in all locations for each non-digital watch face. The time and date formats can be customized in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WatchTheTime at 3.6 against Digital Time's 3.0. WatchTheTime also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (57% vs 36%). Digital Time's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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 Time sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. WatchTheTime asks for nothing beyond the download.
WatchTheTime holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 70 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of WatchTheTime's written reviews are positive against 36% of Digital Time's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 9, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WatchTheTime | Digital Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (39 ratings) — better | 3.0 (70 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 35.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 70 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Dama | Joseph Peplowski |
Customer experience
WatchTheTime
Digital Time
Bugs and requests
WatchTheTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Digital Time
Reported bugs
22 issues- Time stops updating
- Time freezes after sleep mode
- Complication stuck at a particular time
- Time does not refresh
- App does not download or start working
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- App disappeared from watch/phone
- Unable to uninstall app
- 24-hour format displays incorrectly (e.g., 0:34 instead of 00:34)
- Time doesn't update after sleep mode
- Time complication is wrong
- Time freezes and doesn't update
- Digital time doesn't update instantly
- App shows purchased but not installed
- Time is stuck on 10:09
- Time is stuck on 11:10 pm
- Time is stuck on 10:09 am
- Time is stuck on Friday the 9th at 10:09 pm
- Time is stuck on 21:05
- Time is stuck at 5:38 AM
- Time is stuck on 8:38
- Time is stuck at 10:09 am Oct 9th
- Time is stuck on 24:34 instead of 00:34
Requested features
4 requests- Larger time display option
- Ability to change language of days/months
- Fix 24-hour format display (leading zero)
- Color matching for aesthetic bars
In-app purchases
WatchTheTime
No in-app purchases
Digital Time
- Tip Jar 1$0.99
- Tip Jar 3$2.99
- Tip Jar 5$4.99
