Comparison

什么时辰 vs Awareness

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

什么时辰

This app offers a minimalist interface for traditional Chinese calendars, including lunar dates, solar terms, and daily auspicious information. It allows for easy date conversion and personal event integration, blending ancient customs with modern design for daily use.

Highlights
  • Perpetual calendar with lunar dates and solar terms
  • Traditional page-turning almanac
  • Auspicious date search
  • Gregorian/Lunar/Buddhist/Taoist date conversion
  • Personal events calendar integration
  • Customizable themes and settings
Features
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Traditional culture doesn’t need to feel heavy—placed in the right interface, it feels just right. Shenme Shichen brings the perpetual calendar and the traditional almanac together, so you can always grasp dates, solar terms, and daily auspices, letting tradition truly blend into everyday life. [Recommended by Minority Spirit] Restrained, clear, beautiful, and easy to use. The tool-first feel that Minority Spirit loves makes the perpetual calendar and almanac genuinely useful. [Product Overview] Shenme Shichen is an app focused on the experience of the perpetual calendar and the traditional almanac. It supports a page-turning almanac and a clean monthly calendar view, balancing tradition with modern aesthetics. The interface is restrained, the information is clear, and it’s made for long-term daily use. [Key Features] - Perpetual calendar: lunar dates, solar terms, and festivals at a glance - Traditional almanac: page‑turning experience with date jump and sharing - Auspicious date search, Lucky Compass, Astronomical Chart - Date conversion: Gregorian/Lunar/Buddhist & Taoist calendars - Personal events calendar (read/edit system calendar) - True solar time support - Widget previews and setup guide - Theme/default page/week start day and other personalization [What Users Like] The reason many users keep using it is simple: no information overload, a warm traditional almanac, and a clear perpetual calendar.

About

Awareness

Visualize your life's timeline, transforming abstract days, weeks, months, and years into tangible shapes and stories. Track important dates, milestones, and goals with beautiful, calming designs and always-visible widgets.

Highlights
  • Count days up or down from any date
  • Visualize life in weeks, months, quarters, years
  • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, goals
  • iOS 26 liquid glass design with animations
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Cross-device support (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
  • One-time purchase
Features
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Time Awareness helps you experience time the way it really feels. Life has a strange rhythm—sometimes racing past before you notice, sometimes stretching endlessly. This app makes the invisible visible, turning abstract days, weeks, months, and years into something you can see, feel, and understand. Instead of staring at a clock or scanning a calendar, you see the bigger picture. Time Awareness transforms numeric dates into living timelines: how many days have passed since you were born, how many remain until an important milestone, how this quarter or year is unfolding right now. Suddenly, time isn’t a blur of numbers—it’s a shape, a story, a perspective you can hold in your hands. Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, or personal goals. Mark the days since a meaningful event, or count down to the ones you’re waiting for. Explore the flow of your week, month, quarter, or year and watch how each piece fits into your life’s rhythm. These simple, beautiful visualizations help you feel grounded, present, and more connected to where you are in time. What users love most is the sense of calm and clarity it brings. Time Awareness isn’t about productivity hacks or constant reminders. It’s about perspective. It gently shifts how you see your life—not as a string of hours to fill, but as a landscape of moments to notice and experience. Many describe it as unexpectedly eye-opening, even beautiful. Design matters too. Time Awareness is crafted to look and feel as good as it works. Built with the new iOS 26 liquid glass design language, it feels smooth, modern, and calming. Animations give a sense of depth and flow, while Home Screen widgets keep your chosen timelines visible at a glance. Awareness isn’t hidden in an app—it’s right there, living alongside you. And with full Mac support, the same perspective follows you across every device. Ownership is simple: one purchase, forever yours. No subscriptions, no recurring payments—just a single decision that unlocks everything, including updates as the app grows. Whether you want to reflect on the past, anticipate the future, or simply feel the rhythm of everyday life, Time Awareness is your companion for living with presence. Key Features: • Count days up or down from any meaningful date • Visualize your life in weeks, months, quarters, and years • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, and goals • Beautiful iOS 26 liquid glass design with smooth animations • Home Screen widgets for always-visible perspective • Works seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • One-time purchase with lifetime access Time Awareness helps you see the bigger picture, stay connected to your moments, and rediscover how it feels to live in time instead of losing track of it. Make your days visible. Make your life tangible. Live with awareness.

Screenshots

什么时辰4 screens
Awareness4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Awareness at Free against 什么时辰's $0.99. Awareness also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%). 什么时辰's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Awareness is free to download; 什么时辰 costs $0.99 up front. Awareness sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 什么时辰 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for 什么时辰 against 4.8 for Awareness. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of 什么时辰's written reviews are positive against 100% of Awareness's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

什么时辰 ships an update fortnightly, Awareness every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
什么时辰 versus Awareness: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter什么时辰Awareness
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (20 ratings)4.8 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews90.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2024 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer国刚 曾TakeOnePiece LLC

Customer experience

什么时辰

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive90.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.8%

Awareness

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

什么时辰

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Awareness

One-time3
  • Pro$6.99
  • Pro Membership$9.99
  • Pro$14.99

Questions

Is 什么时辰 free?
什么时辰 costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Awareness free?
Awareness is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 什么时辰 or Awareness?
什么时辰 and Awareness are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 20 and 24 ratings respectively.
Do 什么时辰 or Awareness have ads?
Neither 什么时辰 nor Awareness shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 什么时辰 or Awareness?
什么时辰 ships an update fortnightly, and Awareness every 9 days. Most recently, 什么时辰 was updated on September 22, 2026 and Awareness on September 18, 2026.

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