LCD Clock vs Big Digital Clock Widget
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.
Big Digital Clock Widget
Display a large digital clock on your device's screen, optimized for iOS 17 StandBy mode. View the current time easily from a distance, either within the app or using its widgets. Offers a free experience with an optional one-time purchase for expanded customization.
- iOS 17 StandBy mode optimization
- Large format digital clock display
- Single and dual widget options
- Viewable from a distance
- Customization options via purchase
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Designed for iOS 17, Big Digital Clock Widget allows you to see a large format digital clock in one or two widgets in StandBy mode. Easily see current time in digital time format from far away in the app or its widgets. Free with no ads! There is a small one-time purchase available to enable more styling options.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Big Digital Clock Widget at Free against LCD Clock's $1.99. Big Digital Clock Widget also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (89% vs 62%). On rating, 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
Big Digital Clock Widget is free to download; LCD Clock costs $1.99 up front. LCD Clock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Big Digital Clock Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for LCD Clock against 4.5 for Big Digital Clock Widget. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Big Digital Clock Widget has 253 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of LCD Clock's written reviews are positive against 89% of Big Digital Clock Widget's.
LCD Clock ships an update every 7 months, Big Digital Clock Widget every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LCD Clock | Big Digital Clock Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 4.5 (253 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.7% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 253 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | forYou inc. | Cromulent Labs |
Customer experience
LCD Clock
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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
Big Digital Clock Widget
- Premium Version$2.99
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