Spacetime Clock vs Sandypad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spacetime Clock
Explore celestial mechanics and terrestrial positioning with this app. Visualize moon phases, Earth's rotation, and your location's latitude and longitude. It also includes a compass and level meter for your device.
- Moon phases visualization
- Earth rotation and revolution simulation
- Latitude and longitude display
- Compass functionality
- iPhone level meter
- Customizable background colors
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Time, calendars, the movements and positions of celestial bodies, and direction are all closely connected. This app brings together time and place in one view. Alongside the time and date, it shows the phases of the Moon, Earth’s rotation and orbit, latitude and longitude, compass direction, and the iPhone’s level. It lets you see and feel where you are in time and space at a glance. [Top of Screen] MOON: Moon phase (lunar age 0–29) HOURS: Hours (24-hour cycle) MINUTES: Minutes (60-minute cycle) SECONDS: Seconds (60-second cycle) [Center of Screen] The year, month, date, hour, minute, day of the week, and second are displayed. Earth completes one circuit around the center of the screen in 365 days (366 in a leap year). The display uses Earth’s axial tilt to approximate the amount of daylight at that time of year. It does not show precise sunrise or sunset times. The Earth and Moon graphics change depending on whether your current latitude is in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. [Bottom of Screen] LATITUDE: Latitude (−90° to +90°; positive values indicate north, negative values south) LONGITUDE: Longitude (−180° to +180°; positive values indicate east, negative values west) COMPASS: Direction of north LEVEL: Level, measured along the iPhone’s X and Y axes Choose from four background colors: Space, Midnight, Twilight, and Sky Blue.
Sandypad
This app is a specialized timer designed for speedrunning. It allows users to set up multiple games and categories, customize timer precision, and display key run statistics. Sync times across devices and analyze past runs with an intuitive interface.
- Multiple game and category setup
- Adjustable timer precision
- Countdown start option
- Display run statistics (sum of best, best possible)
- Segment time tracking
- iCloud synchronization
- Home screen widgets
- Past run analysis
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Sandypad is a speedrun timer. The app was made for iOS, taking advantage of the platform technologies. Add one or more games, and for each of them, add as many categories as you’d like. Adjust the timer by defining the precision (seconds, tenths, hundreths or thousandths). It is also possible to set a countdown to adjust the start of the run. Set which information are displayed during a run like the sum of best or the best possible time. For each category, show the segments and their time, and modify them with an intuitive user interface. Sync your times on all your devices using iCloud. Take advantage of widgets which allow you to quickly access the last runned games and open them right from the home screen. The app saves all you runs times, allowing you to come back to and analyse any previous run. On iPad, take advantage of keyboard shortcuts to manage your run without even touching the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sandypad at 88% against Spacetime Clock's 41%. Sandypad also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.8) and ratings volume (18 vs 4). Spacetime Clock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Sandypad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spacetime Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sandypad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Spacetime Clock's written reviews are positive against 88% of Sandypad's.
Spacetime Clock ships an update every 2 months, Sandypad every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spacetime Clock | Sandypad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | y-design | Vivien BERNARD |
Customer experience
Spacetime Clock
Sandypad
In-app purchases
Spacetime Clock
No in-app purchases
Sandypad
- Gift Lootbox™$1.99
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