TimeGlance vs UTC Complications
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TimeGlance
This app offers a customizable digital time display for your smartwatch face. It supports various time formats, date displays, and time zones, allowing for personalized watch face customization. The app functions independently of your phone.
- Digital time complication
- Multiple time formats (12/24 hour)
- Customizable date formats
- Time zone selection
- Standalone watch app
- Text color customization
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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
UTC Complications
This app offers customizable digital time complications for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on Apple Watch. It's ideal for aviators and developers needing a quick reference for server logs. Complications update every minute and can be configured with various display options.
- Customizable UTC time complications
- Updates every minute
- 24-hour ISO 8601 format by default
- Supports 12-hour time
- Customizable time labels (UTC, GMT, Z, Zulu)
- Color customization for watch faces
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UTC Complications for Apple Watch provides customizable, digital time complications for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A great quick reference for aviators and software developers looking at server logs. If this app doesn't show up on your Watch after purchase, open the App Store on your Watch, scroll to the bottom, choose Account → Purchased, and download from there. Complications are provided for every available Apple Watch complication slot and update every minute with the current UTC time. By default, complications are presented in 24-hour ISO 8601 time. You can set many options including: • Using your device's region settings • Using 12-hour time • Using "UTC", "GMT", "Z", "Zulu", or "±00:00" to label UTC time • Customizing colors on supported watch faces
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TimeGlance at 3.8 against UTC Complications's 3.0. TimeGlance also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). UTC Complications's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
TimeGlance costs $0.99 and UTC Complications $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TimeGlance holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TimeGlance has 108 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of TimeGlance's written reviews are positive against 33% of UTC Complications's.
TimeGlance ships an update every 4 days, UTC Complications every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TimeGlance | UTC Complications |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (108 ratings) — better | 3.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #116 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andras Solyom | Professionally Ridiculous LLC |
Customer experience
TimeGlance
UTC Complications
Bugs and 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
UTC Complications
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TimeGlance
No in-app purchases
UTC Complications
No in-app purchases
Questions
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