Comparison

Pacific Block vs Ambient Time

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

Head to head
About

Pacific Block

Enhance your web browsing experience by blocking intrusive images, videos, and audio. This utility speeds up website loading, conserves data, and reduces energy consumption on your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Blocks website images
  • Blocks website video
  • Blocks website audio
  • Faster website loading
  • Reduced data usage
  • Reduced energy consumption
Features
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Browse the web in Safari with fewer distractions, faster load times, and less data. Pacific Block works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Features: • Blocks website images • Blocks website video • Blocks website audio • Helps websites load faster • Reduces data used when loading websites • Reduces energy used when loading websites

About

Ambient Time

Features
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Put time where it belongs: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or the biggest display in the room. Ambient Time is a native collection of clocks and useful glances. Explore 47 ways to read the moment on iPhone and iPad—from precise word grids and binary displays to astronomy, weather, mathematics, and generative art. ONE HOME FOR EVERY SCREEN The destination-first control center organizes Widgets, Apple Watch, TV & Displays, Clocks, and Instruments. Browse what fits each surface, preview it live, and choose starting defaults without pretending to control system-owned placement. CLOCKS WITH A POINT OF VIEW • Word Clock spells out time in nine languages plus IPA. • Cosmic brings the sun, moon, horizon, and zodiac into one quiet astrolabe. • Tide follows local predictions and highlights the next high or low. • ASCII World Clock wraps global hours around a text-art globe. • Moon Track follows the live lunar phase. • About Time turns optimistic phrases into the hands of a clock. • Inkwell Ledger lets the day unfold as a handwritten journal. • Mandaza draws a generative clock that never repeats exactly. WIDGETS MADE FOR THEIR SPACE Ambient Time groups Home Screen clocks and information widgets by size, so every layout stays clear and useful. Because the Lock Screen already shows Apple's clock, Ambient Time adds context instead: moon phase, golden hour, rain, tides, and poetry in Inline, Circular, and Rectangular forms. A CALMER GLANCE ON APPLE WATCH Choose from six legible clocks in the Watch app. Add nine Smart Stack widgets and complications for tides, rain, forecasts, golden hour, moon phase, world moments, words, compliments, and poetry. MADE FOR THE ROOM—AND THE MAC Apple TV offers a remote-first gallery of Ambient clocks and fixed dashboards. Mac brings the same destination control center to the desktop, including fullscreen Ambient Mode, dashboards, and Desktop or Notification Center widgets. Five global color themes are available where a clock supports them. Weather, sun, moon, and tide features use coarse location only with permission. There are no accounts, ads, subscriptions, or purchases, and location is never used for tracking. Built natively in SwiftUI with Reduce Motion support. Made by Luke Steuber.

Screenshots

Pacific Block2 screens
Ambient Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ambient Time at Free against Pacific Block's $2.99. Ambient Time also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and device support (5 vs 3). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Ambient Time is free to download; Pacific Block costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pacific Block ships an update every 2 months, Ambient Time every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pacific Block versus Ambient Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPacific BlockAmbient Time
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPod 98, LLCLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

None

Pacific Block

No in-app purchases

None

Ambient Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pacific Block free?
Pacific Block costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ambient Time free?
Ambient Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pacific Block or Ambient Time have ads?
Neither Pacific Block nor Ambient Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pacific Block or Ambient Time?
Pacific Block ships an update every 2 months, and Ambient Time every 6 days. Most recently, Pacific Block was updated on October 16, 2026 and Ambient Time on October 3, 2026.

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