HomeClock vs Alt Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HomeClock
Enhance your home screen with beautiful and eye-catching clock widgets. Choose from digital or flip clock styles with transparent effects for a unique aesthetic. Personalize your device with customizable clock designs.
- Digital clock widgets
- Flip clock widgets
- Transparent home screen effects
- Multiple digital clock styles
- Customizable backgrounds
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Home Clock is a new widget designed for iOS 14. Your home screen now have a simple, beautiful and eye-catching clock. After installing home clock, you will be able to add two types of clocks: digital clock and flip clock. Among them, there are currently three styles of digital clocks to choose from, and you may long press to select other styles at any time. Important! Don't forget to set your magic background, After setting the magic background, your added clock will have a transparent effect on the home screen, which may make your home screen reach a new height in aesthetics! If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know by email, strangeliu@gmail.com. Pleasant to use.
Alt Time
This app provides lock screen widgets for iPhones, displaying both 12-hour and 24-hour time formats simultaneously. It offers five distinct widget styles and automatically adapts to your system's time settings for a seamless experience.
- Dual 12h/24h time display
- Five lock screen widget styles
- Automatic system time format detection
- Real-time updates
- One-tap setup
- No data collection or tracking
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Alt Time puts the times you actually need on your lock screen and home screen. See the opposite of your iPhone's clock format at a glance. If your phone shows 12-hour, the widget shows 24-hour — and the other way round. It follows your system setting automatically, so there is nothing to keep in sync. WHAT YOU GET Dial — a home screen clock face with two rings of numbers: 1–12 outside, 13–24 inside. The hour hand points at both at once, and the centre shows the time both ways, like 5:57 PM and 17:57. Small, medium or large, in ten finishes including parchment and black enamel. Show your own time or any city from your world clock. Travel Mode — your home time and the time where you are, side by side on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island while you travel, with how far ahead or behind home you are. In 12-hour, 24-hour, or both. Start and stop it from Shortcuts or Siri. Requires iOS 18. AM / PM — the lock screen clock never shows AM or PM. Three widgets do: just AM or PM, the time of day (Morning, Afternoon, Evening or Night), or both together, with no numbers to read. Put one beside the date or below the clock. World clock — a home screen widget in small, medium or large, showing as many cities as you like in eight color finishes, with a sun and moon day-night glance. Looks right in StandBy. Alternate 12h/24h time — always the opposite of your system setting, updated automatically. Second time zone — search about 69,000 cities, not just capitals, and see that city's time labeled with its name. UTC / military time — 24-hour Zulu time for pilots, sailors, and anyone working across zones. Dual-time widget — two times side by side in a single lock screen slot, sized to match. Lock screen and home screen widgets, in circular and rectangular slots, tinted or clean, on iPhone and iPad. Every setting sits in one short menu that leads with your times, live. COMPLETELY OFFLINE The city database is built into the app. Searching it needs no network, so Alt Time works in Airplane Mode, on a plane, or with no signal at all. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere for it to go. NO SUBSCRIPTION One purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account, and no data collected, stored or transmitted — ever. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later. Travel Mode requires iOS 18 or later. See every widget and how it works at mmhadventures.com/alttime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Alt Time at 100% against HomeClock's 44%. Alt Time also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and chart position (#80 vs unranked). HomeClock's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
HomeClock costs $0.99 and Alt Time $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Alt Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of HomeClock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Alt Time's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HomeClock | Alt Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #80 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 健 刘 | MMH Adventures LLC |
Customer experience
HomeClock
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In-app purchases
HomeClock
No in-app purchases
Alt Time
No in-app purchases









