MAX Daylight vs MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MAX Daylight
Track remaining daylight and receive sunset notifications. Explore solar data globally, compare locations, and generate reports. Calculate distances to the Equator and poles.
- Real-time sunset time
- Sunset notifications
- Global sunrise/sunset monitoring
- Location comparison
- Distance to Equator/Poles
- Solar data reports
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I wrote this app to help me get home before dark while riding my bicycle. You can see at a glance how much time until sunset, and set notifications for when you are running out of sunlight. Your loved ones will no longer worry or complain. Then I added everything solar but the kitchen sink, just for fun. Not only for your current location, you can monitor sunrise, noon, and sunset anywhere on Earth. You can compare locations, make movies, and generate reports comparing a location you select to places around the globe. Check the distance to your location, the Equator, and the North or South Pole from anywhere on Earth. Quick and easy for its headline purpose, but enough detail to satisfy almost any nerd. Most of the USA is far enough north to have little sunlight in mid-winter, rapid changes in the amount of sunlight in spring and fall, and a glorious abundance in summer. You need this app to keep on top of all that.
MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric
This utility app displays time in multiple formats, including civil, solar, and metric. It offers a progress bar for the day's elapsed percentage and shows sunrise/sunset times. A converter tool allows for easy time conversions between different systems.
- Civil time with DST
- Solar time based on sun position
- Metric time (10,000 units per day)
- Daily progress bar
- Sunrise and sunset times
- Time converter tool
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The clock shows two different times in several different ways. Civil time is the current time in your time zone, taking daylight saving rules into account. Solar time depends on the position of the sun in the sky. Solar noon is when the sun is at its highest point. That moment depends on where you are, and on where the Earth is in its annual orbit around the sun. The time display shows hours and minutes in the way you're used to. It also shows a metric time. It breaks the day into 10,000 equal-sized pieces and keeps count of them over the course of the day. Midnight is 0000, and 9999 is the instant just before the next midnight. It also shows a progress bar for the percent of day elapsed. The clock shows sunrise and sunset times for both civil and solar days, in the hour and minute display and in metric. There's a "classic" display page that shows just solar metric, civil metric and civil hh:mm time. There's a converter page that allows you to type in a time, civil or solar, hours:minutes or metric, and convert to all the other available time types.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MAX Daylight at 4.9 against MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric's 4.3. MAX Daylight also leads on ratings volume (63 vs 4). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MAX Daylight holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MAX Daylight has 63 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MAX Daylight ships an update every 2 weeks, MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MAX Daylight | MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (63 ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen Mykytyn | Michael Olson |
Customer experience
MAX Daylight
MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric
In-app purchases
MAX Daylight
No in-app purchases
MultiClock Civil/Solar/Metric
No in-app purchases
Questions
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