Sunlight Clock Free vs WX Archive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sunlight Clock Free
Visualize the current sunlight and darkness across the globe with interactive map projections. Track the sun's position or your own location automatically, or manually explore the map.
- Real-time sunlight visualization
- Multiple map projections
- Automatic sun/location tracking
- Manual map scrolling
- Interactive globe view
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Sunlight Clock shows you where the sun is shining in the world right now. You can choose different projections for rendering the map, including Mercator, Mollweide, azimuthal equidistant, and others. The map can automatically follow the sun or your location throughout the day. You can also scroll the map to place it how you like.
WX Archive
This application offers quick access to current weather conditions, hourly forecasts up to 120 hours, and 10-day outlooks. It provides detailed information including temperature, wind, precipitation, and UV index. Historical data is temporarily unavailable but will be re-enabled soon.
- Current weather conditions
- Hourly forecasts (120 hours)
- 10-day forecasts
- Weather alerts
- Detailed condition summaries
- Sunrise/sunset times
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Don't wait forever for your weather app to load. WX Archive is a fast-loading, simple to use weather app! WX Archive provides current weather conditions in addition to hourly and 10-day forecasts and alerts. Historical weather data has been temporarily disabled and will be re-enabled soon. WX Archive Features: CURRENT CONDITIONS • Summary • Temperature and apparent temperature • Wind speed, direction, and gusts • Dew point and humidity • Cloud cover • Precipitation type and intensity • Atmospheric pressure • UV Index • Visibility • Sunrise and sunset times HOURLY FORECAST • See hour-by-hour predictions for upcoming weather out to 120 hours 10-DAY FORECAST • Daily forecast details out to 10 days WEATHER ARCHIVE (temporarily disabled) • View past weather conditions from around the world
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sunlight Clock Free at 74% against WX Archive's 8%. Sunlight Clock Free also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.4). WX Archive's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (79 vs 10). 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.
WX Archive holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WX Archive has 79 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Sunlight Clock Free's written reviews are positive against 8% of WX Archive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sunlight Clock Free ships an update every 18 months, WX Archive every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sunlight Clock Free | WX Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 11 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Milk LLC | Aptitude Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Sunlight Clock Free
WX Archive
In-app purchases
Sunlight Clock Free
No in-app purchases
WX Archive
No in-app purchases
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