Date and Time Widget vs Big Digital Clock Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Date and Time Widget
Display a customizable date and time widget on your home screen. Choose from over 150 templates or design your own with custom backgrounds, fonts, and colors for a personalized glanceable display.
- Customizable home screen widget
- 150+ widget templates
- Custom background options
- Adjustable text color and font
- Background gradient and overlay
- Free to download
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Create a beautiful widget on your home screen to show you the date and time at just a glance. Select from one of the 150+ widget templates that are ready to use. Customize the widget to make an unique design by choosing a custom background, text color, font, background gradient, overlay and much more Download for FREE today!
Big Digital Clock Widget
Display a large digital clock on your device's screen, optimized for iOS 17 StandBy mode. View the current time easily from a distance, either within the app or using its widgets. Offers a free experience with an optional one-time purchase for expanded customization.
- iOS 17 StandBy mode optimization
- Large format digital clock display
- Single and dual widget options
- Viewable from a distance
- Customization options via purchase
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Designed for iOS 17, Big Digital Clock Widget allows you to see a large format digital clock in one or two widgets in StandBy mode. Easily see current time in digital time format from far away in the app or its widgets. Free with no ads! There is a small one-time purchase available to enable more styling options.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Big Digital Clock Widget at 89% against Date and Time Widget's 9%. Big Digital Clock Widget also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.3). Date and Time Widget's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Date and Time Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Big Digital Clock Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Big Digital Clock Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 265 and 245 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Date and Time Widget's written reviews are positive against 89% of Big Digital Clock Widget's.
| Parameter | Date and Time Widget | Big Digital Clock Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (265 ratings) | 4.5 (245 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 9.3% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 265 — better | 245 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SK Studios Ltd | Cromulent Labs |
Customer experience
Date and Time Widget
Big Digital Clock Widget
Bugs and requests
Date and Time Widget
Reported bugs
34 issues- Time is always off
- Time stops keeping correct time
- Time not keeping up with actual time
- Widget does not keep accurate time
- Time is off by 3-15 minutes
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- Clock widget doesn't keep accurate time, always behind
- A few minutes off of actual time
- Time widget is always 15 minutes behind
- Text overlaps
- Doesn't keep accurate time
- Changed time and date widget choice three times, all show wrong time
- Not showing correct time on Home Screen
- Doesn't keep time, have to reset every time
- Doesn't keep time
- Time widget displays is slow
- Widget does not keep accurate time information
- Widget will be 10 to 20 minutes behind and will not update until phone is turned off and on
- Rarely shows correct time
- Time is wrong more often than right
- Time does not update automatically, always off by several minutes
- Time remains the same and does not change
- Cannot remove the word widget from under the date and time
- Time and Date Widget always delays the time
- Time lagging on both phones
- Time freezes sometimes
- Clock stayed at the time it was when saved
- Time doesn’t update automatically, time stands still
- Time is off
- Small widget doesn’t adjust to size
- Time is wrong
- Date and time are usually wrong
- Clock does not auto refresh at times
- Time is lagging, about 10 minutes behind
- Clock lags behind 5, 10, even 15 minutes
Requested features
10 requests- Add 24 hr function
- Make it easier and more intuitive to use
- Allow users to find saved versions
- Improve setup process
- Fix overlapping text
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- Allow users to revert color changes
- Fix time display format (minutes under hour)
- Allow widget to adjust size
- Fix auto-refresh issues
- Improve accuracy of time display
Big Digital Clock Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Date and Time Widget
- Pro$2.99
Big Digital Clock Widget
- Premium Version$2.99
Questions
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