Comparison

Zones vs Better Clock

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

Head to head
About

Zones

Effortlessly manage multiple time zones with this intuitive app. It handles daylight saving changes, provides sunrise/sunset times, and offers weather forecasts for your chosen cities. Syncs across devices and includes helpful widgets and reminders.

Highlights
  • Time zone conversion
  • Daylight saving adjustments
  • Sunrise and sunset times
  • Weather information
  • Home screen widgets
  • Custom reminders
  • iMessage app integration
Features
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*Weather Information and Lock Screen Widgets require iOS 16 or more. “What time is it in San Francisco when it’s 3PM my time? Will they switch to daylight savings next week? Alex told me to call them at 8:00AM their time, what will it be for me?” Keeping track of multiple time zones can become challenging really quick, and if you’re not careful, you may show up at your call an hour too early or too late. Presenting Zones. Zones simplifies the process of time zone conversion with a simple and easy to use interface. It takes care of any daylight savings conversions, presents accurate time of day information for each city such as sunrise and sunset times so you know if it’s too early or too late to call your friends. iCloud Sync: Zones syncs with iCloud so cities you add on one device show up on all others. Widgets: Zones’ widgets let you pin time for different cities on the Home Screen. Weather Support: In the latest version of iOS, Zones adds detailed weather information for cities added to the app. You can pick a date and time and see detailed weather information about the cities, including information on temperature, humidity and UV Index. Reminders: You can create custom reminders for different cities. if you want to be reminded of when it’s your friend’s birthday when it’s midnight their time, you can set a reminder for that. 
Send Time: Zones offers a smart iMessage app that eliminates the need to say “It’s 8:30PM my time which should be 8:00AM your time”, simply share the time with our iMessage app and your friend will be displayed the time for their time zone. Moreover, Zones is free of any advertisements, login flows and pesky tracking systems or analytics. We don’t collect any data and aim to provide you with the best user experience. Zones+ Terms of Use: https://zones.app/terms/ Standard Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Better Clock

This app enhances the default clock functionality by allowing users to search for and add any city worldwide, assign custom labels to locations, and convert times across different zones. It offers a user-friendly interface for managing global time differences.

Highlights
  • Search any city worldwide
  • Assign custom labels to locations
  • Manual time conversion across zones
  • Free to use
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Better Clock is just like the Clock app, just better. We decided to build this app when one of our friends went on a trip to Bali, and we couldn't add "Bali" as a location on the default clock app. Unfortunately we're not experts on Indonesian geography (and Bali is not in the same timezone as Jakarta sadly) so we built our own Clock App! Why build another clock app? We already covered this, but the main reason is we wanted to be able to add any city, instead of picking from a surprisingly limited list. What's different about this one? We figured we might as well build some extra features, so here is what we came up with: • City search: This is the main feature here, you can search for any city, and we'll likely find it along with the correct timezone. Courtesy of your friends at Pin Traveler. • Labels: We have a lot of friends all over the globe, and it's just more pleasant looking at the time for "Mom" rather than the time for "Istanbul" • Time Search: Sometimes mental math is just hard. So we built a feature where you can manually enter a time for a location, and we show you what that corresponds to everywhere else! • It's free! Yes developers need to be compensated for their work, but I think we can all agree that you shouldn't be paying a subscription to see the time on your thousand dollar phone. Why should I download this? If you're here you obviously know the default clock app is just not good enough for 2024. Our app isn't the flashiest, or the most feature rich, but we built it to be useful. Why not give it a try? It'll take 30 seconds of your time

Screenshots

Zones4 screens
Better Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Better Clock at 100% against Zones's 70%. Better Clock also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Zones's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (78 vs 11). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zones sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Better Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Better Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zones has 78 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Zones's written reviews are positive against 100% of Better Clock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zones ships an update every 10 days, Better Clock monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Zones versus Better Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZonesBetter Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (78 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSquircle Apps LLPPin Traveler LLC

Customer experience

Zones

All ratings76 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.9%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%

Better Clock

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Zones

Subscriptions2
  • Zones+ Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Zones+ Annual$14.991 Year
3 purchases

Better Clock

One-time3
  • Small Show of Support$0.99
  • Medium Show of Support$2.99
  • Big Show of Support$7.99

Questions

Is Zones free?
Zones is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Better Clock free?
Better Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Zones or Better Clock?
Better Clock is rated higher. Zones averages 4.7 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Better Clock averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Zones or Better Clock have ads?
Neither Zones nor Better Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zones or Better Clock?
Zones ships an update every 10 days, and Better Clock monthly. Most recently, Zones was updated on October 25, 2026 and Better Clock on October 24, 2026.

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