Comparison

CommaSurf vs Tempus World Clock

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

Head to head
About

CommaSurf

Features
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Browse the web on your Apple Watch easily! - Unified URL/search bar - Changeable search engine - Searchable history* - Bookmarks that you can name - Favicons ...and more! Make sure that the webview that the app uses supports the website you want to use. You can test that by asking Siri on your watch to open a website for you. If the webview that comes up displays the website fine and all necessary functions work, you're good to go with this app as well, since it uses the same webview. *The history only saves pages that have been directly opened from the app

About

Tempus World Clock

Easily track multiple time zones with customizable clocks for cities and people. Convert times instantly, find meeting windows, and set location-specific reminders. View city details including weather and sunrise/sunset.

Highlights
  • Customizable clocks with names, emojis, and color tags
  • Instant time conversion with a draggable scrubber
  • Meeting finder with overlapping availability windows
  • Location-specific reminders
  • City detail view with weather and daylight arc
  • Profile grouping for clocks
  • Lock screen and Dynamic Island integration
Features
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Tempus is a world clock and time zone converter built for people who work, travel, and stay in touch across time zones. It is at home on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. NAME YOUR CLOCKS Add clocks for cities or for the people you talk to. Give each one a custom name, an emoji, and a color tag so "Mum in Sydney" or "Design team, Berlin" is readable at a glance. Choose emoji from a searchable catalog with recents and suggestions for the city. Pick analog or digital faces, 12 or 24 hour time, and see the time difference from wherever you are. CONVERT TIMES INSTANTLY Pick any time in any zone and see it in all your clocks at once. Drag the time scrubber to slide through the day and watch every clock move together. Day and night indicators follow the working hours you set for each city, so you can see at a glance who is reachable. PROFILES Group your clocks into profiles such as Work or Family and switch between them from the title on iPhone or the sidebar on iPad. A city can be in several profiles, and the active profile syncs to your other devices and Apple Watch. REMINDERS IN ANOTHER CITY'S TIME Set a reminder for 9:00 in Tokyo and Tempus alerts you when it is 9:00 there, whatever time it is where you are. Anchor a reminder to the city or to your own time, repeat it every day or on the weekdays you choose, or set it for a single date. Label it, pause it without deleting it, and turn alerts off on a device you would rather keep quiet. ON THE LOCK SCREEN Keep a reference city in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, with its current time and how far ahead or behind you it is. A countdown appears there before a reminder is due. FIND A MEETING TIME THAT WORKS Select two or more clocks, set working hours for each, and Tempus shows the overlapping windows where everyone is available. Add the meeting to your calendar in one tap or share it as an .ics invite. CITY DETAIL Tap any clock for a full city view: a skyline illustration that changes with the time of day, sunrise and sunset on a daylight arc, and current weather conditions. IPAD On iPad, Tempus uses a native split layout: browse your clocks in a sidebar while City Detail stays open beside them. Time Converter and Meeting Finder open in the detail column with room for a full-width overlap timeline. Keyboard shortcuts and pointer hover are supported throughout. APPLE WATCH Tempus on Apple Watch shows your clocks on your wrist, lets you convert times with the Digital Crown, and offers complications for your favorite clocks. Clocks sync instantly between iPhone and Apple Watch. WIDGETS A city widget shows one city drawn as its skyline, lit for the time of day, with an optional weekday and date. The World Clocks widget shows the cities you choose on the Home Screen or the Lock Screen. Your clocks sync across all your devices with iCloud. PRIVACY FIRST Tempus has no account, no ads, and no tracking. Your clocks are stored on your device and in your private iCloud database. Weather is provided by Apple Weather for the cities you add, never for your own location.

Screenshots

Tempus World Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tempus World Clock at every 9 days against CommaSurf's every 20 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CommaSurf costs $1.99 and Tempus World Clock $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CommaSurf ships an update every 20 months, Tempus World Clock every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CommaSurf versus Tempus World Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCommaSurfTempus World Clock
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB73 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperViktor SengelViktor Gamov

In-app purchases

None

CommaSurf

No in-app purchases

None

Tempus World Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CommaSurf free?
CommaSurf costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tempus World Clock free?
Tempus World Clock costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do CommaSurf or Tempus World Clock have ads?
Neither CommaSurf nor Tempus World Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CommaSurf or Tempus World Clock?
CommaSurf ships an update every 20 months, and Tempus World Clock every 9 days. Most recently, CommaSurf was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tempus World Clock on November 2, 2026.

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