Standby Clock vs Freedom Desktop Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Standby Clock
This app transforms your device into a full-screen digital clock with customizable fonts and colors. It offers a musical alarm, displays seconds on the dynamic island and lock screen, and can broadcast the time hourly. Enjoy background alarms with custom ringtones and various widget options.
- Full-screen digital time display
- Seconds on dynamic island and lock screen
- Customizable digital font styles and colors
- Musical alarm with custom ringtones
- Hourly chime and voice broadcasting
- Lock screen and Home Screen widgets
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Standby Clock, a beautiful music alarm clock that displays full-screen digital time. - Show seconds on dynamic island and lock screen - Provide a variety of digital font styles - Custom Clock Digital Color - Hourly Chime, Hourly voice broadcasting time - Display date, week, etc. - Support background alarm clock and custom music ringtones. - Support Home Screen widget, Lock Screen Widget, Standby mode.
Freedom Desktop Clock
Customize your desktop with an interactive clock featuring unique textures and designs. It adapts to your device's screen for optimal display and supports desktop widgets, offering precise time updates and a free dial market.
- Interactive desktop clock
- Texture and design customization
- iOS 16 widget support
- Precise time updates
- Adaptive screen refresh
- Free dial market
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Freedom Clock turns your iPhone and iPad into a calm, readable desk clock that looks good throughout the day. Whether you keep it on a desk, near your bed, in a study space, or simply want a cleaner clock on screen, it gives you a more polished way to keep time in view. This update adds a smoother first-launch flow so you can choose a theme and finish basic setup quickly. The settings center also brings display controls, theme shortcuts, and widget guidance into one place, making it easier to get the look and behavior you want. If you enjoy switching between different visual moods, the expanded lineup gives you more ways to match your screen to the moment, from flip-inspired styles and warm night looks to cleaner modern digital themes. Freedom Clock is designed to stay clear, comfortable, and good-looking across everyday use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Freedom Desktop Clock at none against Standby Clock's 3. Freedom Desktop Clock also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (86% vs 61%). Standby Clock's advantage is ratings volume (716 vs 24). On price, rating, 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. Standby Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Freedom Desktop Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Standby Clock against 4.3 for Freedom Desktop Clock. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Standby Clock has 716 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of Standby Clock's written reviews are positive against 86% of Freedom Desktop Clock's.
Standby Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, Freedom Desktop Clock every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Standby Clock | Freedom Desktop Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (716 ratings) — better | 4.3 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.2% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 716 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 云云 唐 | 尔康 杨 |
Customer experience
Standby Clock
Freedom Desktop Clock
Bugs and requests
Standby Clock
Reported bugs
2 issues- Clock not displaying properly on home screen
- Alarm not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add horizontal time display option
- Include weather and date information
- Improve screen timeout settings
- Offer more customization options
Freedom Desktop Clock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Standby Clock
- Remove Ads$0.99
- All Clock Styles$0.99
- Pro Version$1.99
Freedom Desktop Clock
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Standby Clock free?
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Do Standby Clock or Freedom Desktop Clock have ads?
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