Time Machine vs Sunsync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time Machine
Visualize your life's timeline and track important dates. This app helps you see how much time has passed, count down to future events, and preserve memories with photos and messages. It also allows you to create time capsules for your future self.
- Visualize time lived
- Track week, month, and year progress
- Countdown to future events
- Save memories with photos and text
- Create time capsules for future self
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How much time has become part of your story? Time Machine gives you a fresh way to see the passing of time and remember the moments that matter. YOUR LIFE, IN TIME Enter your date of birth and explore how much time you've lived. See the progress of your week, month and year, and take a closer look at the time remaining in your day. DATES THAT MATTER Keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and personal milestones. See the time until or since each event, and explore your dates in the calendar. KEEP YOUR MEMORIES Save photos and words in memory albums for your important days, and revisit moments from the past. A MESSAGE TO THE FUTURE Seal a time capsule with a message to your future self and choose when to open it. About time. About you.
Sunsync
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View and be notified of solar times--dawn, sunrise, sunset, and more! Have the accuracy of NOAA in your pocket--the times are as accurate as NOAA's online calculator with some modest improvements for solar noon and match timeanddate.com to within 1-2s. Keep your day in sync with the sun! - See times from all over the world and on any date! - Schedule a notification just once or be notified on a recurring schedule - Display a clock to visually see how near a solar time is - No or spotty internet connection? No problem. The app still functions. Offline Mode Features and Caveats With no internet connection, the app will still work, but it will need to be connected to the internet again every few days for recurring notifications to continue working automatically. If that is not possible, the user can manually make them continue to work by flicking the switch to turn them off and then on again every few days. If a user wants to create a new location while lacking an internet connection, the user can create a location using latitude and longitude coordinates, using the convention that negative values are South of the equator and West of the Prime Meridian. The location created while offline will lack timezone information to display the times to the user in the local time of that location, but otherwise, everything works as expected. When the user comes back online, the app will automatically attempt to update the location with a name (if a match can be found) and timezone. If multiple locations match to the same place, the app automatically deletes all but one of them--no duplicate locations are permitted. Clock View The user can turn on the clock view from time settings. The clock view will display the time of the event that is selected and the user's current time on the hands of a clock and will update as the user taps more events. Tap and hold one of the time events to make the clock view display that event's time without popping up the notification creation form. The color of the event's clock hand changes depending on whether the event time is AM or PM. Limitations The algorithm used comes from Jean Meeus' Astronomical Algorithms and will be accurate to within a minute for most latitudes (+/- 72 degrees, i.e., up to around the Polar Circles) and within 10 minutes otherwise. Due to atmospheric refraction and other conditions, the calculated times may be different from what is observed. The algorithm is very good from the years 1800-2100 with still reasonable but decreasing accuracy from the years -1000 to 3000. The algorithm has a higher risk of error outside that range.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sunsync at none against Time Machine's 2. Sunsync also leads on ads (none vs shown). Time Machine's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 9 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Time Machine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Sunsync asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time Machine ships an update fortnightly, Sunsync every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time Machine | Sunsync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 红升 孙 | Clusia LLC |
In-app purchases
Time Machine
- 时间机器1月高级会员$0.491 Month
- 时间机器1年高级会员3 Days trial$5.991 Year
Sunsync
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Time Machine or Sunsync have ads?
Which is updated more often, Time Machine or Sunsync?
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