Smooth Clock vs Beautiful New Tabs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smooth Clock
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Turn your device into a clock with a smoothly animated background. Features: - toggle between day and night mode - choose from 4 different animations - animate random, rainbow or gray colors - 3 different animation speeds - supports the 12 and 24 hour format
Beautiful New Tabs
Enhance your browsing experience with stunning wallpapers on every new tab. This extension for Safari displays gorgeous photos from Unsplash and provides local weather information, adapting to your device's dark or light mode.
- Customizable new tab page
- High-quality Unsplash wallpapers
- Local weather display
- Dark/light mode support
- Privacy-focused design
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Why not look at a beautiful photograph when you open a new tab? Beautiful New Tabs is an extension for Safari that replaces your new tab page with a gorgeous wallpaper. Images are pulled from Unsplash, a repository for beautiful photographs. Images can be anything you want - nature, cats, lizards or fruit, anything. Beautiful New Tabs also shows the weather for your location. The interface for the weather and the rest of the page responds to dark and light mode, looking good on any theme. Try a simple, beautiful way to open new tabs. ## Purchasing Beautiful New Tabs contains no in-app purchases. Buy once and own forever. Buying this version for iOS also unlocks Beautiful New Tabs for Mac. ## Privacy Beautiful New Tabs caches whatever you put into the weather search field locally on your computer so it can display the correct weather when you open a new tab. It does not store or share this information with any third party. This app does not use any: - Tracking of any kind - Third-party software libraries or SDKs
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Verdict
Smooth Clock and Beautiful New Tabs are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Smooth Clock costs $0.99 and Beautiful New Tabs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smooth Clock ships an update every 11 months, Beautiful New Tabs every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smooth Clock | Beautiful New Tabs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | Kyle Nazario |
In-app purchases
Smooth Clock
No in-app purchases
Beautiful New Tabs
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Smooth Clock or Beautiful New Tabs have ads?
Which is updated more often, Smooth Clock or Beautiful New Tabs?
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