LCD Clock vs Analog Digital Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LCD Clock
Transform your device into a stylish digital clock and calendar. It offers a clean, minimal display perfect for any room, with features like international holidays and weather forecasts. Enhance your daily visibility and convenience with this multifunctional utility.
- Digital LCD-style clock display
- Integrated calendar view
- International holiday display
- Weather forecast
- Six-day calendar support
- Adjustable screen brightness
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LCD Clock — Simple Clock & Calendar LCD Clock combines a digital clock and a calendar into one beautifully retro LCD-style desk clock. Just place your iPhone on a charging dock, and your desk instantly gets a clean, easy-to-read clock and calendar. Perfect for your office desk, living room, or bedside table — adding convenience and clarity wherever you are. Key Features - Large, easy-to-read digital clock (12/24-hour format) - Monthly calendar (view up to 7 months) - Public holidays for countries worldwide, automatically fetched and highlighted - Weather forecast for your chosen location (current location supported) - Japanese era (Reiwa) and rokuyō display - Customizable first day of the week - 8 color themes plus a random theme - Adjustable screen brightness, shake-to-light backlight - Full-screen landscape clock mode - Optimized for iPhone Duo (layouts for both the closed and open screens; two months of calendar when open) A True Alarm Clock (iOS 26 and later) Powered by Apple's latest alarm technology (AlarmKit), the alarm has been dramatically upgraded. - Rings with a full-screen alarm even when the app is closed or your iPhone is locked - Breaks through Silent Mode and Focus — and keeps ringing until you stop it - Quick STOP / SNOOZE (5 min) buttons - Adjustable alarm volume in the app. Set it to mute for a silent, screen-only alert (with vibration while the app is open) Notes - Weather requires location access; holiday display requires calendar access - On iOS 25 and earlier, alarms are delivered as notifications (no sound in Silent Mode, and the notification sound stops automatically after a short time) - Please refrain from making complaints regarding malfunctioning alarms.
Analog Digital Clock
Experience time like never before with a unique clock app where each digit is hand-painted in real-time. Designed by a renowned Dutch artist, it brings a performance piece to your device, offering a captivating way to view the passing minutes.
- Hand-painted time digits
- Real-time performance art
- Designed by Maarten Baas
- Auto-rotating modes
- Disable screen lock
- Plays iTunes music
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#1 Utility / #2 overall in Holland! This clock was made by videoing someone actually painting the time! He's inside your phone with a bucket of paint and manually changes the digits on an old-school digital clock. The "Analog Digital" app is the next installment in Dutch designer Maarten Baas' "Real Time" series. His works cross the fields of art, design, theatre and performance. The anonymous digital clock becomes a performance as each minute is being hand painted by a hidden man "in" the clock. Real Time caused a sensation in the design world, and won several international design awards. Other clocks in the series are exclusive limited editions in the collections of museums and private collectors worldwide, but the Analog Digital app is now available in the palm of your hand! Some people even buy an iPod and mount it on the wall just to have this clock :-) - Designed by Maarten Baas, Design Miami's Designer of the Year 2009. - The movie was shot in the Netherlands. - Optionally disable the iPhone screen-lock to leave the clock running. - Auto-rotating Portrait and Landscape modes. - It's a 12-hour clock - it would be cruel to force the actor to do 24 hours! - The normal iPhone alarm can be set and works while the app is open. Note, this clock does not have an alarm, because an "app alarm" only works while the app is open, and the iPhone alarm works anytime the phone is on. - You can play your iTunes music collection in the background while the app is running. - The time is always accurate; immediately when you open the app, also when you leave it running for days. - The concept of the clock is to watch time in a different way. The numbers take time to be made. This means that there are moments that the numbers are not yet ready - the man draws the time for you "while-u-wait!" - Compatible with all iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch models.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Analog Digital Clock at none against LCD Clock's 3. Analog Digital Clock also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (77% vs 62%). On rating, ratings volume and ads 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
LCD Clock costs $1.99 and Analog Digital Clock $0.99 up front. LCD Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Analog Digital Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for LCD Clock against 4.6 for Analog Digital Clock. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of LCD Clock's written reviews are positive against 77% of Analog Digital Clock's.
LCD Clock ships an update every 7 months, Analog Digital Clock every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | LCD Clock | Analog Digital Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 4.6 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews | 77.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | forYou inc. | Jan Svarovsky |
Customer experience
LCD Clock
Analog Digital Clock
Bugs and requests
LCD Clock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Analog Digital Clock
Reported bugs
3 issues- Does not work on OS4
- Times appear as 0X:XX in 24-hour clock mode
- App counts towards screen time when always on
Requested features
12 requests- Apple Watch app/watch face
- Widget for home/Lock Screen
- 24-hour clock option
- Ability to set as background/lock screen
- New creations/updates from artist
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- Different colors
- Alarm function
- Apple TV version
- Clock keeps moving on lock screen
- Clock shows correct time when checking normally
- More features beyond clock
- Not count towards screen time when always on
In-app purchases
LCD Clock
- I'll buy you a cup of coffee.$1.99
- I'll buy you two coffees.$3.99
- I'll buy you a lot of coffee.$31.99
Analog Digital Clock
No in-app purchases
Questions
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