Block Screen vs TIMECHAIN CALENDAR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Screen
Personalize your lock and home screens with live Bitcoin data. Access real-time block height, mempool fees, price, news, and mining difficulty across all your Apple devices. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with customizable themes and widgets.
- Live Bitcoin widgets for lock and home screens
- Real-time block height and price tracking
- Mempool fee recommendations
- Mining difficulty and hashrate
- Curated Bitcoin news feeds
- Customizable color themes and widget selection
- Apple Watch complications and StandBy mode support
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Turn your lock screen and Home Screen into a personalized bitcoin screen with live Bitcoin widgets. Block Screen puts real-time block height, mempool fees, price, news, and mining difficulty (and more!) on every Apple device you own: iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, CarPlay. No accounts, no ads. –––– KEY WIDGETS & VIEWS –––– • Lock-Screen Widget – glanceable block height and bitcoin prices • Home-Screen Widget – small, medium and large sizes • StandBy Mode – full-screen clock-style display while charging • Apple Watch Complication & Smart Stack – stats right on your wrist • iPad and macOS – adaptive layouts for Stage Manager and desktop • CarPlay – widgets on your vehicle dashboard –––– BITCOIN STATS YOU CARE ABOUT –––– • Block height & next halving countdown • Mempool fee recommendations (high / medium / low) • Mining network hashrate & difficulty in real time • Live BTC price in USD, EUR & more • Curated Bitcoin-only news feeds –––– BUILT FOR CUSTOMIZATION –––– • Custom color themes • Choose which widgets appear in Smart Stack rotation –––– PRIVATE BY DESIGN –––– Block Screen talks directly to public Bitcoin APIs—no log-ins, tracking, or analytics SDKs. “Everything you need and nothing you don't." Download Block Screen free today and keep with the Bitcoin network at a glance: price, mempool, or countdown to the next halving.
TIMECHAIN CALENDAR
Visualize the Bitcoin network with this protocol explorer and live data dashboard. Search past blocks, estimate future ones, and enhance your experience with subscriber-only mobile tools like a special moment camera and customizable alerts.
- Bitcoin protocol visualization
- Timechain block search
- Future block estimation
- Block and price data camera overlays
- Customizable alerts
- Home and lock screen widgets
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TIMECHAIN CALENDAR is a Bitcoin protocol visualizer, timechain explorer, and live data dashboard. This compact interface provides a comprehensive view at-a-glance of the Bitcoin network's most important features. Search and explore the entire chain to find past blocks or estimate future blocks by height or date. Stay informed and connected! Subscribers unlock native mobile tools to enhance the experience. Block-stamp and price-stamp your special moments with the Timechain Calendar camera. Stay notified with a suite of alerts about the info that matters to you most. Install widgets that surface the latest data into your view without needing to open the app. Features: - Block production monitoring - Complete timechain block search - Future block estimation by height or date - Camera with live block and price data overlays - Customizable price, block, mining pool and calendar alerts - Beautiful home screen & lock screen widgets
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Block Screen at none against TIMECHAIN CALENDAR's 2. TIMECHAIN CALENDAR's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. TIMECHAIN CALENDAR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Block Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Block Screen against 5.0 for TIMECHAIN CALENDAR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Block Screen's written reviews are positive against 100% of TIMECHAIN CALENDAR's.
Block Screen ships an update every 11 days, TIMECHAIN CALENDAR weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block Screen | TIMECHAIN CALENDAR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (46 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Ramsden | Timechain Calendar LLC |
Customer experience
Block Screen
TIMECHAIN CALENDAR
In-app purchases
Block Screen
No in-app purchases
TIMECHAIN CALENDAR
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
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