TimeDeck vs Smart Color Widgets and Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeDeck
Display the current time and date directly on your home screen with this simple widget. Easily track time in different cities and time zones to stay connected globally.
- Home screen widget
- Displays current time
- Displays current date
- World clock functionality
- Time zone tracking
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It’s a widget that tells time. It’s that simple. Keep track of the time and date with a quick glance at your home screen. Easily connect with others around the world by knowing what time it is in other cities and time zones.
Smart Color Widgets and Clock
Personalize your iPhone home screen and Lock Screen with customizable widgets. Choose from hundreds of pre-designed options or create your own with custom backgrounds, colors, and styles. Track your health and steps directly from your screen.
- Customizable widgets
- Hundreds of pre-designed widgets
- Health widget integration
- Step counter widget
- Digital and analog clocks
- Battery life widget
- Customizable backgrounds and colors
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Do you want to make your iPhone home screen launcher or Lockscreen look the most beautiful and stylish ever? Use this Smart widget app, the most powerful Widget creator ever. Smart widget app is all in one iphone best widget app for iOS 14+ including health widget, step counter widget, digital and analog clock widget, sophisticated Battery and more are coming soon. The apple iOS widget will feature hundreds of awesome backgrounds and colors. You can directly add stylish widgets to your home screen. You can choose from hundreds of premade designer widgets. Most amazing feature is, you can easily customize your own to make your home screen look perfect and the best stylist ever. Health Widget Take control of your health and get tech-driven health and fitness smart widget on your screen. The widget will help you get the health you want. Integrated with apple health. Step Counter Widget The step counter widget will automatically count every step you walk. Whether your phone is in your hand, bag, pocket, or armband, it can auto-record your steps even if your screen is locked. It also tracks your burned calories, walking distance and time, etc. All this information will be clearly displayed on your home screen. Widget Library Choose awesome background widgets, Color widgets, and designer widgets from a huge collection from our library. Awesome backgrounds widget Hundreds of awesome backgrounds to choose from. With a variety of interests apps provide technological, nature, animal, abstract, solid, pattern and many other types of background to personalize your home screen as per your interest. Simple widgets Anyone can set up a widget with simple and easy to use widgets. Made for apple iOS Smart Widgets will work on any iOS device universally. Battery Life Smart widget apps will use the least battery life. Love the app? Give us a five star rating, write a review and share the app with your friends! Need Help? Let us know here: https://loyalfoundry.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://www.loyal.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TimeDeck at none against Smart Color Widgets and Clock's shown. TimeDeck also leads on ratings volume (67 vs 21). Smart Color Widgets and Clock's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. TimeDeck sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Smart Color Widgets and Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Color Widgets and Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 67 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of TimeDeck's written reviews are positive against 50% of Smart Color Widgets and Clock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TimeDeck ships an update monthly, Smart Color Widgets and Clock every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | TimeDeck | Smart Color Widgets and Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (67 ratings) | 4.3 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Caleb Panza | Loyal Foundry, Inc. |
Customer experience
TimeDeck
Smart Color Widgets and Clock
Bugs and requests
TimeDeck
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cannot get past set time zone
- Time freezes up randomly
- Widget freezes and stops showing current time
- Display is glitchy/unreadable in dark mode
- UTC time is an hour out in the UK
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- Widget disappears until app is reopened
- App crashes when opened
- No clock shows up on home screen
- Contact link leads to an error page
- Text is whited out and faint in dark mode
Requested features
13 requests- Set background color option
- AM/PM indicator
- Optional sun/moon indicators
- Option to change day/night background
- Ability to set background to own image
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- Text color picker
- Option to switch between widget sizes
- Add seconds display
- Military time (24-hour) format
- Red sunset option
- Add weather information
- Choose cities or rename time zones
- Option to match stock iOS weather app colors
Smart Color Widgets and Clock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TimeDeck
- A Crisp High Five$0.99
- A Cup of Coffee$2.99
- A Bigger Cup of Coffee$4.99
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- Lunch$9.99
- Family Dinner$19.99
Smart Color Widgets and Clock
- Smart Color Widget$2.99
Questions
Is TimeDeck free?
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